Physician, Adolescent Health

Overview:

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The clinic uses EPIC for our electronic health records. After-hours triage is available for our patients.

This is a full-time position, working eight clinics, 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities:

Provide direct medical care for patients according to established standards of care, including:

• Perform age appropriate physical examinations and assessments.
• Take medical histories and record chart data and service data as per established clinic procedures and accepted standards of clinical practice.
• Assess, diagnose illnesses and/or conditions, and establish a plan for treatment/management according to accepted standards of care.
• Counsel patients about course of treatment, prescribed medications, general health and wellness, and management of diagnosed conditions.
• Provide patients with telephone counseling for issues including but not limited to laboratory test results, follow up treatment, and patient inquiries.
• Make referrals to medical specialists, social services, and other services as indicated by presenting problems.
• Provide any medically necessary follow-up on diagnosis, diagnostic evaluation, or treatment required for the patient’s care.
• Provide supervision and oversight to one or more advanced practice nurses or physician assistants in accordance with appropriate state regulations.
• Participate in the rotating provider responsibility to be on-call for the after-hours nurse triage service, which takes first calls from patients but may in some cases require provider backup.
• Provide cross-coverage for the care of clinic patients when the provider with the primary relationship with the patient is not available (e.g., responding to lab results or phone messages when the primary provider is not available).
• Work effectively with other staff providing leadership among assigned nursing and other support staff to coordinate team-based care of the patient.

• Provide direct care in an efficient and timely manner.
• Provide direct care services as scheduled during the week.
• Meet standards for quality of care and number of patients seen as set by management under the direction of the board.
• Maintain professional licensing and certifications.
• Maintain practice liability insurance coverage unless covered through the Federal Tort Claims Act.
• Participate in quality improvement/quality assurance activities, which may include completing chart audits on schedule and according to clinic procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve work flow, work processes and patient care, and work cooperatively to implement these and other quality improvements.
• Adhere to HIPAA guidelines.

Participate in program planning, development, evaluation and implementation activities:

• When requested, work with medical department head to update protocols and guidelines.
• As assigned, review patient education materials for accuracy, utility and appropriateness.
• Participate in meetings, task groups and activities designed to promote communications, identify and resolve problems, devise work plans, and establish program or departmental objectives.

• Work 1 clinic at MMHC and 2 clinics at CAH North on a weekly basis and cover MMHC when lead provider is out.
• Support CAH in outreach and relationship building with community partners to increase referrals and coordinated patient care.
• Ability to provide coverage for CAH clinics when other providers are out, (including walk ins and same-day appointments including well child checks and overbooks after nurse triages) preferred.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Graduation from an accredited medical school with an M.D. or D.O. degree
• Completion of an appropriate post-graduate training program
• Board certification in an appropriate medical specialty (or board-eligible with participation in the examination process with certification to be achieved within two years of hire)

Experience:

• Minimum two years’ experience as a physician, which may include time in a post-graduate training program.
• Familiarity with underserved population.
• Familiarity with electronic medical records highly desirable.

(Credentialing and privileging policy and procedure contains full details of required certifications/licenses.)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Theory and practice of medical care as appropriate to the needs of the practice; basic clinic practices, techniques, and methods of operation; public and community health service practice; generally accepted professional and ethical standards of patient-centered care; charting, reading of medical history and presenting problems, assessing laboratory results, maintaining accurate medical records, use of basic instruments for medical examination and assessment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Comfortable working with Spanish-speaking patients (translators available gut bilingual English/Spanish preferred).
• Problem identification and resolution skills.
• Time management skills.
• Knowledge of reproductive health care such as birth control male and female, STIs, and irregular periods.
• Knowledge of behavioral / mental health care such as ADHD, anxiety, mild-moderate depression and school-related learning problems.
• General minor sports and acute care injuries.
• Chronic disease management such as asthma, Type 2 DM.
• Able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Have possibility to work extra hours as needed and ideally grow with the position.
• Flexible and adaptable in a high change environment.
• Ability to work independently.

People’s Community Clinic is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, language, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or sex stereotyping.

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