Physician - Family Practice

What You'll Be Doing

• Delivers quality patient care in a respectful culturally sensitive manner that includes acute and chronic care, preventative care, and consultations with patients, family and specialists.
• Diagnoses, treats and provides high quality patient centered care for medical conditions in children and adults following accepted medical standards of practice.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
• Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
• Evaluates and revises patient care/treatment plan with patient and family as necessary to achieve improved health.
• Provides education for patients and/or families about preventative care, medical issues and use of prescribed medical treatment.
• Provides collaborative oversight of mid-level providers, serving as a mentor and consultant.
• Provides accurate documentation of patient care, document orders, directives, procedures and patient responses in the medical record and communicates information to other members of the health care team; maintains timely, accurate, legible and confidential records.
• Participates actively in the advancement of FCP’s Medical Home model, advancing innovative ideas, leading a Care Team, participating in care team clinical benchmarking and quality projects, and meaningful use of the electronic health record.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director, Provider Team and Nursing Director to identify areas for system improvement, increased efficiency, communication and quality improvement activities.
• Develops relationships to provide for a broad spectrum of care with the various ancillary specialties available. (I.e. Rehab, Dental, Optical, Community Health, Behavioral Health, etc.).
• Communicates within the department as well as across departments to ensure that information is shared for effective operations and maintains strict confidentiality and adherence to HIPAA policies and procedures.
• Practices within the policies and procedures that direct the Clinic.

What You'll Need To Be Successful

• Doctorate of Medicine of Osteopathy, with valid Wisconsin licensure.
• Current Board Certification in a primary care specialty such as family practice, internal medicine, or emergency medicine.
• Three to five (3-5) years’ practice experience in a primary care setting.
• State of Wisconsin and Federal DEA Certification.
• Knowledge of legal and ethical standards for the delivery of medical care.
• Knowledge of community medical diagnostic and patient care services in area of medical expertise.
• Knowledge of related accreditation and certification requirements.
• Ability to supervise, advise, and train clinical professionals in area of expertise; work independently and in a team environment.
• Must possess interest and be willing to enhance skill set in provision of Culturally Safe care to a Native population.

Benefits

• Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off annually
• 3 weeks of paid holidays
• Premium free health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Short term disability
• Life insurance
• 401k with match