Permanent Family Practice: Outpatient Only Job in Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada
RESPONSIBILITIES (listed are included but not limited to)
- Provide full spectrum Family Medicine care encompassing outpatient clinical and procedural services. This will be provided in a cost-effective manner that focuses on patient centered, evidence-based outcomes.
- Shall include routine general family medicine care which includes preventive medicine, and care for acute and chronic patient conditions, musculoskeletal conditions, pediatrics, and women's health.
- Complete medical records documentation within 72 business hours of the encounter with the patient.
- Attend and participate in meetings, professional staff conferences and other appropriate professional activities such as, but not limited to the following: quality improvement meetings, professional staff meetings, commander's staff meetings, flight meetings, and other meetings required by applicable regulations.
- Provide immediate evaluation and management of emergency problems as they occur.
- Familiarization with Department of Defense (DoD), Federal, State, non-profit healthcare systems and organizations, to include DoD Tri-Service Military Healthcare Systems, TRICARE purchased care system, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration (VA) is highly desired.
- Shall provide ongoing education programs to promote, protect, and maintain optimum levels of wellness. Shall provide health counseling to patients and their families and develop a plan for health maintenance based on individual needs.
- Provide instruction, coaching, mentoring, and training for medical residents, physician assistant students, medical students and/or students of other health care disciplines in the form of clinical rotations, didactics, and outpatient discussions as appropriate.
- Shall see new patients and established follow-up clinic visits. The HCW is expected to participate in telehealth and virtual encounters as well as respond to telephone consults and secure messages.
- Shall provide clinical and administrative leadership and expertise, managing patient care and coordinating additional subspecialty referrals, answering patient telephone consults (with the assistance of clinic staff), and refilling prescriptions.
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Coordinate patient care with community health agencies and social programs. Will facilitate continuity of care for patients. Has knowledge of a wide variety of resource agencies available in the military treatment system to ensure proper and expedient referral of the patient and/or family member.
REQUIREMENTS
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Degree/Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) degree.
- Graduate must be from an accredited medical school in the United States or Canada.
- Certification: Certification by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) or the American Osteopathic Board of Family Medicine (AOBFM).
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
- Successful completion of an internship and residency program.
- Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least 2 years of experience within the past three years including residency training.
- Licensure/Registration: Must have a current, full, active and unrestricted license to practice in medicine.
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