Physician, General / Primary Care - MPG

Millennium Physician Group•Palmetto, FL

About The Position

Provides comprehensive physician services for patients across the lifespan in Millennium Physician Group’s ambulatory primary care practice. Evaluates, diagnoses, and manages acute illnesses, chronic diseases, and preventive healthcare needs using evidence-based medical practice, including health assessments, diagnostic evaluation, medication management, preventive services, chronic disease management, and care coordination. Works with advanced practice providers and interdisciplinary care teams to improve patient outcomes, support population health strategies and value-based care initiatives, and deliver patient-centered primary care. The physician has full clinical decision authority within their specialty and is independently accountable for patient outcomes in the established care area. Decisions are complex and depend on specialty training and clinical knowledge. The role may include Associate Medical Director responsibilities, influencing clinical practice for a service line, mentoring advanced practitioners, and overseeing APP chart audits.

Responsibilities

Evaluate, diagnose, and manage patients with acute illnesses, chronic diseases, and preventive healthcare needs using comprehensive histories, physical examinations, diagnostic interpretation, and evidence-based medical decision-making.
Develop and oversee individualized treatment plans covering medication management, preventive services, immunizations, screenings, lifestyle changes, chronic disease management, and monitoring of clinical outcomes.
Diagnose and manage a broad range of primary care conditions using current clinical practice guidelines.
Order, perform, interpret, and integrate laboratory studies, diagnostic imaging, electrocardiograms, point-of-care testing, and other diagnostic evaluations.
Perform office-based procedures consistent with specialty training and organizational credentialing, such as minor skin procedures, wound management, joint and soft tissue injections, and incision and drainage.
Conduct annual wellness visits, preventive screenings, health risk assessments, chronic care management, transitional care management, and other evidence-based preventive services.
Coordinate care for patients with complex conditions; collaborate with specialists and community resources; and determine when specialty consultation, hospitalization, or additional diagnostic evaluation is clinically indicated.
Collaborate with advanced practice providers and interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to coordinate comprehensive care across the continuum.
Educate patients and caregivers about diagnoses, medications, preventive health, nutrition, exercise, chronic disease self-management, and treatment plans.
Document encounters, medical decision-making, procedures, treatment plans, quality measures, and outcomes accurately in the electronic health record, complying with organizational, regulatory, payer, and value-based care requirements.
Participate in quality improvement, peer review, population health, patient safety, clinical pathway development, and continuing medical education activities.
The role may include influencing service-line clinical practice, mentoring advanced practitioners, and overseeing APP chart audits.