Job Description
Job Description
Duration: 1 year to Long term
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Total Number of openings: 2
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Note: The candidate must have prior experience working in a hospital facility, as experience from other types of healthcare settings will not be considered acceptable for this position
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Job Responsibilities:
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\n - Perform a full range of physician services in accordance with privileges granted by the MTF.
\n - Clinically direct, perform, or assist in the instruction of other health care professionals within the scope of the clinical privileges or responsibilities.
\n - Examine, diagnose, treat or prescribe courses of treatment within the scope of training, experience, and privileges.
\n - Provide preventive and health maintenance care, including annual physicals, positive health behaviors, and self-care skills through education and counseling.
\n - Order diagnostic tests as applicable as well as request consultation or referral with appropriate physicians, clinics, or other health resources as indicated.
\n - Technically proficient in directing and teaching other medical staff, providing educational lectures and participating in the provision of in-service training to clinic staff members. Such direction and interaction will adhere to Government and professional clinical standards and accepted clinical protocols.
\n - Coordinates with facility and community resources to provide multi- disciplinary comprehensive care to all patients, taking into account factors such as new and/or emerging procedures and techniques and the patient's personal history, as well as information gained through diagnostic tests.
\n - Performs emergency services or crisis intervention, including life-saving emergency procedures when necessary. Required to move, manipulate, lift patients with the assistance of other medical staff.
\n - Promotes preventative and health maintenance care, stresses positive health behaviors and self-care through education and counseling. Encourages patients to make difficult lifestyle changes to improve their health and provides follow-up treatment and care to patients to ascertain compliance with therapy and response to treatment.
\n - Provides advice by telephone and/ or in person to other physicians, non-physician providers, and other professional medical staff on the care of patients with urgent, emergent, and non-urgent medical problems.
\n - Serves as member of the professional medical staff and/ or faculty to provide advisory and consultative services on various meetings, committees, conferences, and/ or boards that relate to duties under this task order.
\n - Evaluates the care provided to patients at MTF, identifies opportunities to change the care delivered, advises on difficult or complex cases, and recommends corrective action when problems exist.
\n - Participate in Quality Assurance (QA) functions, performance improvement programs, risk management programs, and peer review programs. Make recommendations on improvement of work methods and organizational features.
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Additional Qualifications:
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\n - Degree: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.).
\n - Education: Graduation from a medical school in the United States, Canada, or approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association (AMA), graduation from a college of osteopathy approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or graduation from a medical school with evidence of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification.
\n - Certification: The DoD only recognizes certifications issued by boards that are members of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) or the AOA Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists
\n - Internship/Residency/Fellowship: Completion of an accredited residency approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
\n - Experience: As required to meet clinical competency requirements specified in the credentialing instructions.
\n - Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice medicine.
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Job Tags
Internship, Work at office