Internal Medicine Physician | Outpatient | Milford, CT

Responsibilities

• Evaluate patients, and treat acute and chronic illnesses
• Orders, performs and interprets diagnostic tests
• Involves patients and their families in care and treatment decisions
• Creates treatment plans and completes orders in patient's charts
• Collaborates on improvements in care delivery and service with staff, other physicians and management
• Initiates appropriate specialty referrals
• Provides clinical information to the interdisciplinary team in a clear and timely manner
• Ensures that proper patient documentation is timely, accurate and complete
• Works with practice management to ensure proper compliance with billing, coding and CPT code assignment
• Achieves and maintains optimal patient access
• Provides interdepartmental medical consultation as requested
• Participates in the development of medical protocols, standard procedures and management

Qualifications

• Degree of MD or DO with ABIM-recognized internal medicine residency (three years minimum) or ABFM-recognized family medicine residency (three years minimum)
• Licensure: Valid American Board certification in either internal medicine or family medicine and renewed (if needed) prior to expiration, Valid and unrestricted Connecticut medical license
• BLS certification
• Valid DEA registration and Controlled Substance Certificate