Physician (Family Medicine)

Title: Physician (Family Medicine)

Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, 36065 Santa Fe Ave, Fort Hood, TX 76544

Position Type: Full time (30-40+ hours/week), 1099

FLSA Status: Exempt

Education Level: MD or DO

Job Category: Healthcare

Our Company Promise

We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter's Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture's 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:

• Dependability
• Integrity
• Personability
• Transparency
• Responsiveness

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.


Summary:

Vighter is recruiting a Family Medicine Physician to serve at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at and around Fort Hood, TX. This role delivers patient-centered, evidence-based care while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, and Vighter clinical policies. The physician functions as a key member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, supporting quality care delivery, clinical documentation, and continuity of care in a secure and highly regulated setting.

Vighter is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which provides professional healthcare staffing services to Federal, State, and Local government clients. The company is quality focused and registered ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by The Joint Commission in Healthcare Staffing Services.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Provide medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care for adult patients.
• Support continuity of care during intake, transfers, and release processes.
• Participate in audits, peer reviews, morbidity/mortality reviews, and quality initiatives.
• Perform a full range of physician services in accordance with privileges granted by the MTF.
• Direct, perform, or assist in the instruction of other health care professionals within the scope of the clinical privileges or responsibilities.
• Examine, diagnose, treat or prescribe courses of treatment within the scope of training, experience, and privileges.
• Provide preventive and health maintenance care, including annual physicals, positive health behaviors, and self-care skills through education and counseling.
• Order diagnostic tests as applicable as well as request consultation or referral with appropriate physicians, clinics, or other health resources as indicated.
• Facilitates patient access to continuing medical care by appropriate specialty referrals, appointments, consultations, procedures to schedules and complete delivery of services and/or to other healthcare providers operating within the policies and regulations of the MTF access to care timelines.
• Technically proficient in directing and teaching other medical staff, providing educational lectures and participating in the provision of in-service training to clinic staff members. Such direction and interaction will adhere to Government and professional clinical standards and accepted clinical protocols.
• Provide high-quality standards of care as mandated by the Joint Commission and appropriate DHA, CRDAMC, and local regulations and policies.
• An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
• An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction.
• Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Knowledge and Skills :

• Must have exceptional customer service skills.
• Employees shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the job requirements, including ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment with limited supervision
• Excellent organizational, scheduling and prioritization skills.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an accredited medical school.
• Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of practice.
• Graduation from a medical school in the United States, Canada, or approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association (AMA), graduation from a college of osteopathy approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or graduation from a medical school with evidence of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification as identified in the base contract
• Experience managing multidisciplinary clinical teams across multiple sites preferred.

Qualifications:

• Shall possess a minimum of (1) year of post-residency clinical experience within the last three (3) years providing direct patient care in family medicine.
• Completion of a three (3) year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited family medicine residency program, during which the provider practiced under clinical supervision for all three (3) years, is considered acceptable experience for meeting this requirement.
• Board eligible or board certified (preferred, depending on specialty).
• Current BLS certification (ACLS preferred).

Duty Hours / On-call Requirements

• Work schedules for all labor categories will range between the hours of 0530 and 2230, Sunday through Saturday, and may include days, evening, nights, weekends, training holidays, and Federal holidays. Hereinafter training and Federal holidays will be referred to as "all holidays." Shifts may be scheduled for up to 16-hour periods but will normally be scheduled for up to 12-hour periods.

Work Environment

• Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and Community and Outlying Medical Treatment Facilities.
• Supportive team of healthcare professionals and administrative staff.

Travel:

• As required to satisfy the contractual obligations. Commuting is non-compensatory. All official travel is government funded.

Benefits

• 1099, weekly or monthly pay

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to stand or sit for more than 8 hours per day.
• Must be able to use an elevator or walk up & down stairs.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds and carry up to 10 feet.
• Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders.
• Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print.
• Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear.
• Must be able to perform duties in an indoor office or outdoor environment.
• Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation.
• Must undergo Urine Drug Screening (UDS).
• Must be a Citizen of the United States or legally authorized to work in the United States of America.

Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

In accordance with recent Executive Orders (EO 14151, EO 14168 and EO 14173,) Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

#IND2026

#vighter