Student Health Physician 5 - Per Diem University Health Services

UC Berkeley Health Care Position

Provides health care to adolescent and adult patients to include assessing and treating a wide variety of conditions, ailments and injuries. Diagnose, manage and treat patients: obtain medical history, conduct physical examinations, order, perform and interpret diagnostic tests, provide treatment, prescribe education and counsel patients on diet, exercise and preventative health care. Refers patients with more serious conditions to other specialists for more complex care or other health care facilities for more intensive care. May act as head of the treatment team, providing consultation and direction to mid-level practitioners and nursing staff.

Responsibilities include performing procedures associated with area of specialization, providing appropriate education to the patient regarding diagnosis, condition, expected recovery, and potential complications, accurately establishing the nature of clinical problems through appropriate history, physical examination, and assessment, appropriately ordering and utilizing diagnostic tests, providing appropriate specialty diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures, maintaining medical record entries that are organized into history, physical examination, assessment, and plan, as appropriate to care, keeping the referring primary care clinician informed of patients' progress through written or verbal communication, providing specialty consultation in area of expertise to other specialists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and other health care professionals on specific cases, providing feedback and education to primary care clinical staff to assure that care at UHS keeps pace with evolving clinical practice, providing timely office progress notes, surgical reports, and hospital discharge summaries to referring clinicians for UHS patients seen off-site from the Tang Center, participating in quality improvement and peer-review activities as directed by the Quality Improvement Committee or the Medical Director, and providing early notification to Medical Director and/or UHS Risk Manager of potential high-risk incidents such as patient complaints and complications.

Required qualifications include MD or recognized equivalent, medical license, current board certification in non-primary care specialty, current California Physician/Surgeon Medical License/Podiatric License, and appropriate continuing medical education to maintain license. Preferred qualifications include maintaining medical staff privileges in good standing at local community hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.