Primary Care Physician (Lakland, FL) IMA

Millennium Physician Group•Lakeland, FL

About The Position

Provides comprehensive primary care physician services to patients across the lifespan in Millennium Physician Group’s ambulatory practice. The physician evaluates, diagnoses, and manages acute illnesses, chronic diseases, and preventive healthcare needs using evidence-based practice, including comprehensive health assessments, diagnostic evaluation, medication management, preventive services, chronic disease management, and care coordination. The role partners with advanced practice providers and interdisciplinary care teams to improve patient outcomes, advance population health strategies, support value-based care initiatives, and deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. The physician exercises full clinical decision authority within the specialty and is independently accountable for patient outcomes in the established care area. Decisions are complex and draw on specialty training and clinical knowledge. The position 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 through comprehensive histories, physical examinations, diagnostic interpretation, and evidence-based medical decision-making.
Develop and oversee individualized treatment plans involving medication management, preventive services, immunizations, health screenings, lifestyle modification, chronic disease management, and ongoing outcome monitoring.
Diagnose and manage a broad range of primary care conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, asthma, COPD, thyroid disorders, obesity, depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal conditions, and infectious diseases.
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, including 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 evidence-based preventive services.
Coordinate care for patients with complex medical conditions and collaborate with specialists and community resources; determine when specialty consultation, hospitalization, or additional diagnostic evaluation is indicated.
Collaborate with advanced practice providers, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral health providers, care managers, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to coordinate patient care.
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 and comply with organizational, regulatory, payer, and value-based care documentation requirements.
Participate in quality improvement, peer review, population health, patient safety, clinical pathway development, and continuing medical education activities.
May influence clinical practice for a service line, mentor advanced practitioners, and oversee APP chart audits as part of Associate Medical Director responsibilities.