PHYSICIAN (FAMILY PRACTITIONER/INTERNIST)

About the role

The Physician at NEMS clinic provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients. Essential functions include developing a care plan, ordering and interpreting tests, prescribing medications, and participating in quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provides primary, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician’s medical specialty.
• Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary.
• Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients.
• May hospitalize NEMS patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital.
• Serves as the on-call physician when the NEMS clinic is not open on a rotational basis.
• Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients.
• Prescribes medications or therapies.
• Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner.
• Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient’s families concerning treatment and care of patients.
• Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided.
• Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvement plans for NEMS.
• Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies.
• Documents electronically with NEMS EHR system.
• Attends all medical staff meetings and participates in the community health center’s Quality Assurance program.
• Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations.
• Affords assistance in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel.
• Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large.
• Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come to NEMS for training.
• May provide supervision to mid-level providers such as NP or PA.
• Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of medicine.
• Licensed to practice medicine in the State of California.
• Ability to work as a team with other health professionals and non-medical personnel.
• Board eligible or certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn or Emergency Medicine.
• If providing subspecialty or specialty services, be board eligible or certified to that specific specialty or fellowship.
• Current documentation of Basic Life Support is required.
• Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English.
• Fluency in Spanish or Chinese required.
• Fluency in other languages are an asset.

Benefits

This is an FLSA exempt position. This is an OSHA high-risk position. This is a Full Time position.