Physician - Family Medicine Program

About the role

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

Responsibilities

• Serves as core faculty member in the Mclaren Greater Lansing residency program by providing education and evaluating progress of resident physicians.
• Provides patient care within Family Medicine residency clinic. Examine patients, obtain medical histories and order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests.
• Counsel patients about illness, injuries, health conditions, and preventive healthcare.
• Assess need for, and as may be clinically indicated, refers patients to additional health care providers for need additional specialty care.
• Assess urgency of patient medical care needs in determining necessary follow-up schedule and/or referral/consultation appointments.
• Prescribe medical treatment and clinical drugs to patients.
• Order studies, test, and ancillary services.
• Review long term cases that require ongoing medical attention.
• Consult with medical colleagues, departmental or organizational medical leadership, or other professional staff regarding matters of optimizing patient care, accurate diagnoses, appropriate treatment and other issues promoting enhanced patient care delivery.
• Participate in quality improvement, departmental and organization medical staff meetings, and continuing education activities in order to promote clinical operations enhancement and maintain personal professional credentials.
• Assist in the resolution of complaints, requests and inquires from patients.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient information in accordance with Federal and State laws, applicable regulations and organizational policies.
• Perform other related duties as necessary.

Qualifications

• Current Michigan license to practice medicine.
• Obtaining and maintain appropriate medical staff privileges at McLaren Greater Lansing.
• Board certification in Family Medicine where required.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply professional medical principles, procedures, and techniques.
• Thorough knowledge of pharmacological agents used in patient treatment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiently uses Electronic Medical Records (EMR).
• Demonstrated ability to carry out professional in interpersonal activities in a tactful and professional manner.