Physician Family Medicine

La Clinica de La Raza•Oakland, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center dedicated to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to diverse communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. For over 40 years, La Clínica has advocated for and created a health home for those denied access to care, ensuring individuals without health coverage receive the same quality healthcare. The organization addresses economic and social factors affecting health, often providing services in various settings to link individuals to the health center for preventive and primary care. Serving over 90,000 individuals, La Clínica is known for its activism, social justice spirit, and sophisticated primary health care services across 35 sites in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties.At La Clínica, physicians provide primary and obstetric care in both outpatient and inpatient settings, practicing full-scope family medicine. They deliver care to a resilient, ethnically diverse, and medically complex patient population, aiming for optimal health outcomes. The organization supports providers with mentorship, quality initiatives, and preceptorships, and is committed to continued physician education through monthly county-wide and site-level provider education meetings, including morbidity and mortality case presentations. Physicians work alongside a collaborative care team dedicated to patient experience, health innovation, and quality care delivery, with shared ownership of tasks to improve efficiency. The role offers robust perks including educational leave plus stipend, license reimbursement, FTCA malpractice coverage, flexible work schedules, and is a National Health Service Corps (NHSC) approved site for tax-free loan repayment. Clinics are located in the Bay Area, known for its cultural diversity, weather, schools, and recreational activities.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience with Electronic Health Record programs, such as NextGen or Epic.
Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures
High degree of interpersonal competence with both staff and patients, and thorough knowledge of evidence based care
Good time management skills and evidence based approaches to medical care
Cultural competence working in diverse/low income communities
Ability to deal courteously and effectively complex patient profiles, and maintain good working relationships with other staff
Ability to work courteously and effectively as a team member to support the quality/efficiency standards established for the clinic; work independently; exercise good judgment; spell correctly; communicate effectively orally and in writing, make and thorough manner with speed and accuracy with minimal supervision
Ability and willingness to work under pressure and as part of an interdisciplinary team
Demonstrate flexibility and ability to accept changes gracefully
Ability to work across cultures and demonstrate support of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Ability to keep accurate, clear and legible records of patient information
MD/DO degree from a recognized University
one to two years of experience working in primary care clinic setting
Requires board certification in Family Practice. In the absence of a board certification, candidate must be board eligible and become board certified within 2 years of employment
Requires valid California license and DEA
Must hold a current BLS (Basic Life Support) Certificate. You will have 30-day grace period to obtain your certificate from the date of hire.

Nice To Haves

English/Spanish proficiency preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Deliver evidenced based care that supports our aim for improved health outcomes, exceptional patient experience and efficient use of resources.
Perform routine, acute, urgent, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative medical care to patients and determine appropriate regimen.
Prescribe medications, treatments or therapies and order medical diagnostic or clinical tests
Explain medical procedures or test results to patients or family members
Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
Deliver well and chronic disease care with cultural humility to a diverse patient population of all ages.
Have flexibility in meeting patients needs, and participating in the call pool and rotational Saturday clinics.
Develop a positive rapport with patients and families to foster the physician/patient relationship.
Serve as a member of the cross-functional team of providers, consulting with mid-levels on the assessment, management and treatment of complicated cases, chart review, co-signing, and case conferences.
Suggest improvements for clinic flow, patient scheduling and service delivery, and collaborate professionally with interdisciplinary team members, including providers, health educators, medical assistants, registered nurses, and case managers.
Provide direction to medical assistants regarding patient care as needed.