PHYSICIAN (FAMILY PRACTITIONER/INTERNIST)

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Physician provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients at the NEMS clinic and performs related duties.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

- Provides primary,, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician’s medical specialty.

- Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary.

- Provides diagnosis and treats injuries, illnesses, and disorders

- Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients

- May hospitalize NEMS patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital.

- On rotational basis, serves as the on-call physician when the NEMS clinic is not open.

- Is able to work on Saturday clinic on a rotational basis.

- Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients

- Prescribes medications or therapies.

- Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner.

- Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient’s families concerning treatment and care of patients.

- Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided.

- Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvements plans for NEMS.

- Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies.

- Documents electronically with NEMS EHR system.

- Attends all medical staff meeting and participates in the community health center’s Quality Assurance program.

- Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations

- Assists in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel.

- Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large.

- Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come to NEMS for training.

- May provide supervision to mid level providers such as NP or PA.

- Full-time physicians are generally required to maintain hospital privileges, this may include coverage of the emergency room and inpatient services for non-NEMS patients if this is a requirement by the hospital to maintain hospital privileges.

- Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.