Physician - Village - Primary Care - Part Time

About the role

Provides comprehensive family medicine services within the scope of training and experience to people of all ages and genders with a focus on frontier and low-resourced settings, serving as a collaborator for advanced practice providers in the consortium.

Responsibilities

• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of services is accordance with SEARHC policy.
• Provides optimal patient experience using strong listening and communication skills.
• Buils long-term patient care relationships.
• Consults specialists as needed (i.e., AristaMD, ANMC providers, etc.).
• Provides medical services at facilities within the SEARHC care network and other facilities and locations listed in SEARHC’s compact and funding agreement with the Indian Health Services.
• Participates in SEARHC quality patient care initiatives and quality assurance programs.
• Participates in provider meetings, clinic meetings, and SEARHC medical staff functions.
• Serve as the primary collaborating physician or alternate for Physician Assistants serving in consortium by fulfilling state requirements.
• Serve as the Physician of record/sponsoring physician for CHA/Ps and their standing orders.
• Regular travel amongst Village Clinic sites.
• Duties as delegated by the Village Lead Clinician.

Requirements

• State of Alaska Medical License as an MD or DO
• Board-certified in Family Medicine
• Maintains active, unrestricted DEA registration.
• Maintains active SEARHC medical staff privileges.
• AACLSPALSCALS or ATLS
• AALSO or BLS
• NRP
• RPA
• Able to be privileged in moderate sedation and POCUS

Qualifications

• Two years of experience as a practicing provider
• Additional clinical experience or training prior to practice as a licensed provider may be considered by the Medical Director of Primary Care Clinics to meet this minimum experience requirement.

Experience

• Experience required

Knowledge

• Knowledge of Primary health care practices and principles
• Emergency care and protocols where appropriate including medical evacuations
• Common disease processes and pharmacology
• Standards of care, EMTALA, HIPAA, health care risk management principles, medical ethics, and medical malpractice principles

Skills

• Effective communication skills and ability to interact with staff and patients
• Operating essential basic medical equipment
• Making proper assessments based upon history, exam, lab, x-ray, and other data
• Incorporating health promotion and health prevention activities into patient care
• Education patients and family members about diagnoses, treatment plan alternatives, risks, options, and medications
• Providing high-quality health care services including the performance of medical procedures appropriate to the outpatient and emergency care setting
• Ability to Promote teamwork and collaboration
• Resolve conflict
• Efficiently utilize electronic medical record and other clinically-required technology
• Carefully listen to patients and family members
• Clearly express ideas through oral and written communication
• Efficiently analyze complex situations and solve problems
• Effectively implement clinical program strategies

Benefits

SEARHC offers generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

Pay

Details TBD

Schedule

Half-time, M-F