Physician - Internal Medicine/Family Practice

Physician Opportunity in Quantico, VA

The Community – Quantico, VA

The only town in America literally surrounded by the United States Marine Corps. Sited on the scenic banks of the Potomac, the Town of Quantico is entered through the Quantico Marine base and is literally encircled by this training base's many facilities. Featuring traditional shops and a setting right out of America's past, the town is also the site of numerous special events. Virginia is for mountain hikers, beach-chair sitters, oyster-shuckers, brewery-hoppers, museum-goers, and…well, you get the idea. There are so many things to do, whether you're there for a visit or plan on staying a while. Find yourself at an iconic historic site, in a garden, visiting and art museum, performance hall or theme park.

About the Facility – Naval Health Clinic Quantico

Welcome to Healthcare at the "Crossroads of the Marine Corps." Providing health care to the surrounding military community for generations, where the patient is the center of total health care delivery. The Culture of Excellence here consists of four pillars: employee loyalty, customer loyalty, culture, and standards and communication. Peer-led staff teams, assigned to review and address the organization's needs for culture change, integrated these pillars in the hospital's strategic focus. It is our vision to be a premier healthcare organization in the Defense Department, leading transformation in health care, training and research. We believe in the coming decades, military and civilian health care will embrace these principles in American health care. We see the same principles as imperatives while serving as the Department of Defense's flagship community hospital.

Facility Address: 3259 Catlin Ave, Quantico, VA 22134

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide services within the scope of the clinical privileges granted by the commanding officer
• Review patient consults; conduct medical record reviews along with providing physical examinations to provide the appropriate physical readiness waivers to determine if patients are suitable for isolated, remote, overseas or operational assignment for all referred Active Duty, Reservist and Medically Retired personnel.
• Complete DES referrals for patients identified in monthly CDEB meetings, as directed by Convening Authority. Also, complete comprehensive NARSUM by reviewing Veterans Affairs C&P disability examination results, service treatment records, and Commander's NMA concerning member's medical status. Serve as Impartial Medical Review Provider, when requested, in cases referred by other providers.
• Serve as the Medical Officer Representative supporting of TEMPO program, to include completion of LIMDU or RTD chits as necessary. Coordinate with PCMs, specialty providers, and Case Managers in the management of LIMDU population.
• Performs extensive analysis of the service members' medical condition from a potential wide spectrum of medical evaluations, reports and therapeutic plans from disparate specialties and integrate them into a cohesive clinical assessment on how they ultimately affect fitness for duty for the service member. The product of this analysis will be the eventual synthesis of the requisite documents, such as the narrative summary, required of the Medical Evaluation Board process.
• Duties also include appropriate consultation with each service member including appropriate referral of adjunctive primary, alternative and/or specialty care required to either diagnose or treat the service member's medical condition.
• Consults with other healthcare providers regarding disability evaluations and the coordination of medical care on behalf of the service member undergoing the medical evaluation process.
• Consults with DFA, Convening Authorities, and PAD Department Head on all matters pertaining to the medical board's process.
• Consults with providers, clinical coordinators, and /or program managers of the Department of the Navy (DON) Disability Evaluation Program, Navy Personnel Command and the VA Competency and Pension medical/senior administrative staff.
• Performs Independent Medical Reviews (IMR) as needed upon request of patient.
• Provide clinical direction to the convening authority (if appointed by the Commanding Officer of the NHCQ).
• Participates in assigned committee and/or administrative assignments; other duties as required.
• May be assigned other duties consistent with the normal duties of a physician as directed by the Commanding Officer.

Requirements:

• Current unrestricted license to practice in any of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands
• M.D. or D.O., graduated from an accredited medical college or university
• Must be a physician, either Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
• Board Certified Family Medicine (ABFM) or Internal Medicine (ABIM)
• Possess one year of experience within the last two years as a physician in a family practice or internal medicine setting OR have successfully completed Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Residency program within one year.

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