PHYSICIAN - PRIMARY CARE - WESTMORELAND COUNTY
About The Position
The Primary Care Physicians at Independence Health provide comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for c hronic disease management, acute care needs, with a preventative care focus. Outpatient clinical responsibilities include Physicals, Annual Wellness Visits, and Well child checks, Paps, procedures, and initial diagnosis workups, acute care visits and chronic care follow-up visits (as determined by evidenced based medicine practices and patient needs), outpatient office call rotation requirements. Physicians utilize hospitalist services for inpatient care. The Physicians collaborate with other members of the care team including Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and other clinical and non-clinical staff in the team-based outpatient office setting to provide high quality care. The physician is responsible for being a provider leader in the team-based care setting, supervision of APPs, teaching, system stewardship, and modeling behaviors of excellence and compassion in the primary care setting.
Requirements
- Graduate of a medical school accredited by the LCME or ADA, OR
- Graduate of AMA governed fifth pathway program, OR
- Graduate of a medical school not otherwise mentioned with valid ECFMG certification AND graduate of accredited family medicine residency program.
- Graduate of an ACGME or AOA accredited residency program.
- Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
- Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.
- Current medical license in the state of Pennsylvania.
- Board certification in Family Medicine by ABFM or AOA or Board Certified in Internal Medicine by ABIM.
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34 with renewal
- Act 73 FBI Clearance
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the America Heart Association (CPR and AED) program.
- Valid DEA License.
Nice To Haves
- Model the ACGME six (6) core competencies.
- Experience in Healthcare setting.
Responsibilities
- comprehensive evaluation
- diagnosis
- treatment for chronic disease management
- acute care needs
- preventative care
- Physicals
- Annual Wellness Visits
- Well child checks
- Paps
- procedures
- initial diagnosis workups
- acute care visits
- chronic care follow-up visits
- outpatient office call rotation
- provider leader in the team-based care setting
- supervision of APPs
- teaching
- system stewardship
- modeling behaviors of excellence and compassion in the primary care setting
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