Physician - Maternal Fetal Medicine

Education and Experience Required - Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice Job Duties Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required. Prescribe pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions. Provide care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans. Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record. Request further medical evaluations and make referrals, as necessary. Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards. Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care. Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits. Comply with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care that are conducive to the provision of high-quality medical services consistent with accreditation standards, state and federal licensure or regulations, Medicare, Medicaid, and other regulations, guidelines, requirements, and statutes as applicable. Physical and Environmental Demands Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible. Must be able to travel throughout and between facilities. This position involves the handling of hazardous drugs and/or hazardous drug contaminated products either through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste, including contact with patients who may receive hazardous drugs. Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr