Pediatrician

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

• Diagnoses, treats, and helps prevent children's diseases and injuries in an outpatient primary care setting.

General Accountabilities

• Reviews patient file/record, including allergies, problems, medications, well-child visits, and immunization status.
• Elicits and records information about patient's medical, developmental, social, and family history.
• Examines patient to determine general physical condition or presence of disease or injury.
• Orders or executes various tests, analyses, and diagnostic images to provide information on patient's condition.
• Administers or prescribes treatments as needed.
• Determines and prescribes medication, dosage, and schedule given the patient's condition and allergies.
• Prescribes and administers vaccinations to immunize patient from communicable diseases.
• Discusses any possible side affects to medication or immunization with parent or patient.
• Electronic Health Record Charting
• *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.

Job Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree and M.D.
• Experience: 5-7 years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Critical thinking
• Judgment and decision making
• Science
• Social perceptiveness
• Monitoring
• Complex problem solving
• Service orientation
• Coordination
• Operations analysis