Physician (Family Medicine)

Job Duties

The following duties are expected:

• Provides pre-and post deployment health assessments as well as preventive health assessments (PHA).
• Formulates full treatment and management regimens based on sound diagnoses consistent with current and/or evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
• Provides some sub-specialty services within current granted privileges to patients encountered in the event that consistent medical specialty support is not available due to deployment requirements.
• Provides advice by telephone and/or in person to other physicians, non-physician providers, and nursing and para-professional staff on the care of patients with urgent, emergent, and non-urgent medical problems.
• Documents clinical encounters and patient instructions into the medical record via current electronic medical record system and prepares appropriate clinical narrative summaries for both civilian and military occupational programs in a timely manner.
• Provides clinical and administrative leadership to the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) team.
• Facilitates and manages full spectrum of professional and patient care activities for the PCMH team.
• Serves as member of the professional medical staff and complies with hospital plans and policies to meet the accrediting agency, The Joint Commission (TJC), requirements.
• Provides direct primary outpatient care to include gynecologic, prenatal obstetric, and geriatric care.
• Performs ambulatory surgical procedures including but not limited to casting/splinting, suturing, excisional skin biopsies, vasectomies.
• Outpatient procedures: Loop Excision Electrocautery Procedure, colposcopy, micro excisional dermatologic techniques, trigger point injection, joint aspiration and injections, multiple layer skin closures, IUD and Nexplanon insertion/removal, etc.