Oncologist/Hematologist - Sign on eligible

About the role

This position serves as an oncologist and hematologist at the Specialty Care Center. The service is supported by a nurse practitioner, pharmacist, and clinical nurses. The care model allows for flexibility through virtual telehealth and in person care. The patient panel involves medical care services for adult patients. The incumbent is responsible for multi-disciplinary care plans designed to treat cancers with focused care in the following disease sites: breast, gynecologic malignancies, GI system, and GU system.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive care for adult patients with hematologic and oncologic conditions.
• Diagnose adult patients with hematologic and oncologic diseases, as clinically indicated.
• Conduct outpatient hematologic and oncologic clinics appropriate to the patient’s underlying disease and treatment plan, including current symptoms.
• Review the patient’s medication, diet, therapy course, adherence to management plan and modify regimen as indicated.
• Instruct and counsel patients and family members as required.
• Upon request for consultation from hospitalists, interview and examine hospitalized patients, review past medical history, and request and/or perform diagnostic tests and examinations deemed necessary to obtain all possible information related to each case.
• Assist in making preliminary diagnoses and direct, prescribe, provide treatment and/or arrange for specialized care or patient referral as required.
• Provide emergency care as required and definitive management in all medical categories for cases that do not require referral.
• Collect medical histories and perform physical evaluations in addition to basic administrative duties, such as maintaining records, coordinating with other medical personnel, and managing the work of staff.
• Perform diagnostic procedures to ascertain the condition of tissues and to detect cancer, including scanning techniques and biopsies.
• Prescribe and supervise the administration of drug treatments that may include chemotherapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, hormone therapy, targeted drug therapy and other systemic therapies in an outpatient or inpatient setting for patients with early or advanced stage cancers.
• Monitor patients for commonly known side effects and complications of treatment.
• Prepare appropriate medical records for all patients seen to assure the accumulation and organization of all pertinent clinical data needed to provide comprehensive medical care.
• Communicate with patients’ primary care provider, other physicians, hospitals, and other individuals and facilities as needed.
• Refer patients to appropriate contracted medical or other government facilities, providing full clinical information for care and diagnostic procedures that cannot be adequately provided at TCRHCC.
• Coordinate and integrate information obtained into the ongoing Health Care Program at TCRHCC and assure the provision of timely follow-up care as required.
• Ensure proper PPE is always worn while on duty including face mask, gloves, gown, isolation gown, NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator or higher, and eye or face shield. Complete all donning and doffing tasks in a safe acceptable method and discard of used PPE accordingly.
• Complete task training for all routine cleaning and decontamination processes for all surfaces contaminated by a communicable disease.
• Complete all patient care documentation in the electronic health record entries accurately and in real-time.
• Participate in departmental workflow and/or testing teams as related to electronic health record or other project initiatives.
• Work closely with allied health professionals to utilize and coordinate the services of other health care professionals in the management of the patient’s care related to hematologic or oncologic disease.

Qualifications

Education

• A Medical Degree, MD or DO
• Completion of a three (3) year residency program in Internal Medicine
• Completion of fellowship in Hematology/Oncology
• Board Eligible or Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine

License

• Must possess and maintain a current and unrestricted license to practice as a physician in any state within the United States, District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Credentialing

• Additional credentialing/privileging qualifications required for membership to the Medical Staff

Other Skills And Abilities

• A record of satisfactory performance in all prior and current employment as evidenced by positive employment references from previous and current employers.
• All employment references must address and indicate success in each one of the following areas:
  • Positive working relationships with others
  • Possession of high ethical standards and no history of complaints from co-workers or patients
  • Reliable and dependable; reports to work as scheduled without excessive absences
  • Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to optimize the care of oncology patients
• Completion of and, above-satisfactory scores on all job interviews, demonstrating to the satisfaction of the interviewees and TCRHCC that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
• Successful completion of and positive results from all background and reference checks, including positive employment references from authorized representatives of past and current employers demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC a record of satisfactory performance and that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
• Successful completion of fingerprint clearance requirements, physical examinations, and other screenings indicating that the applicant is qualified to be employed by TCRHCC and demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
• Submission of all required employment-related documents, applications, resumes, references, and other required information free of false, misleading, or incomplete information, as determined by TCRHCC

Mental and Physical Effort

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical

• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, bend, maintain balance, and reach for objects.
• Ability to occasionally kneel, crouch, and twist.
• Ability to frequently lift, push and pull up to 10lbs.
• Sensory requirements required for position include frequent far vision, near vision, depth perception, seeing fine details, hearing normal speech and overhead pages, and must have the ability for frequent telephone use.
• Ability of simple and firm grasping fine manipulation and use of keyboards.

Mental

• Ability to frequently cope with high level of stress, make decisions under high pressure, cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way, manage altercations, concentrate, handle a high degree of flexibility, handle multiple priorities in stressful situation, work alone, demonstrate high degree of patience, adapt to shift work, and work in areas that are close and crowded.
• Ability to frequently accept flexible schedule to meet unit needs.

Environmental

• May be exposed to infectious diseases for a prolonged amount of time.
• Frequent exposure to loud noises.
• Occasional exposure to chemical agents, and hazardous or moving equipment.