Family Medicine - General

Family Medicine Physician

The Physician provides medical care and treatment to patients. Provides consultation and medical supervision to the clinical staff. Performs routine examinations, diagnoses and provides treatment for illnesses and injuries to promote the patients' overall well-being, and provides immunizations according to medical or school guidelines.

General Duties:

• Patient Care: Provides quality care to the patient. Responds to patients' calls and messages and attends to patients. Maintains patient and business records including the completion of daily patient encounters. Observes patients for signs and symptoms of abuse/neglect and reports immediately in accordance with appropriate policy. Recognizes emergencies and responds appropriately in adherence to organizational policies and procedures.
• Patient Access: Participates in a physician call schedule which is evenly distributed between providers and offers patient meeting slots as deemed by the designed template.
• Safety and Infection Control Standards: Assists with compliance to safety, environmental, infection control, quality improvement and other regulatory standards. Implements standard and transmission-based precautions and ensures patient safety during clinic visits, in accordance with the hospital/regulatory policies. Maintains a clean clinic working environment. Reports any safety hazards or violations in patient or clinic environment to clinic manager or designee.

Experience Qualifications:

• Completed residency training.

Education Qualifications:

• Doctoral Degree in Medicine or Osteopathy.

Licenses and Certifications:

• American Heart Association, Basic Life Support-HCP, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification.
• Medical Physician Licensure through the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners

Skills and Abilities:

• Medical skills.
• Computer software skills.
• ICD-10 and CPT-4, working knowledge.

City: Covington State: LA