Community Health Center / FQHC Family Practice: Outpatient Only Job in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
This outpatient Family Practice position in Fitchburg, Massachusetts is offered as a Community Health Center/FQHC opportunity. This type of setting provides care within a federally supported safety-net structure, as an employed position with the practical benefits that come with employment. Physicians drawn to community-focused medicine often find this arrangement well suited to that goal.
The role is structured under an employment agreement with production bonus, and the financial offering is listed in the $200,000 - $224,999 range. Loan-repayment assistance is available in connection with this position. There is no emergency department call associated with this role.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible candidates considered
- Open to MD and DO trained physicians, including AMG and FMG backgrounds
- Suitable for candidates ranging from currently in training to very experienced
This position is based in a community with a population in the range of less than 10,000 up to 99,999, offering a setting outside larger metropolitan areas.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Family Practice: Outpatient Only
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: No
- Structure of Position: Community Health Center/FQHC
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: (not specified)
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Under the direction of the Medical Director, provides comprehensive and
continuous primary care to a panel of patients.
Essential Duties Major responsibilities:
- Provides primary care services to individuals and families.
- Provides and manages direct patient care, including physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses and treatment for a specified patient population.
- Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
- Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
- Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
- As appropriate to the position, participates in specified health promotion, education and/or prevention programs.
- Ability to observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress.
- Participate in On Call coverage.
- Knowledge of legal and ethical standards for the delivery of medical care.
- Knowledge of relevant drugs and non-pharmaceutical patient care aids and ability to prescribe dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
- Ability to develop and present educational programs and/or workshops.
- Knowledge of community medical diagnostic and patient care services in area of medical expertise.
- Knowledge of current principles, methods and procedures for the delivery of medical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment in area of expertise.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team
- Managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff interacting with patients
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Medical Degree (MD or DO)
- Board certification/eligibility in Family Medicine
- Current licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine
- ACLS or CPR/AED certified.
- Current DEA, DEA-X and Massachusetts Controlled Substance licensure for prescriptive authority
- Eligible for unrestricted health center and hospital privileges at facilities utilized by the health center
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Structure of Financial Support: Employment Agreement with production bonus, Contract
- Financial Offering: $200,000 - $224,999
- Relocation Allowance: Negotiable
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: No
- Student Loan Assistance: $0
- Practice State: Massachusetts
- Practice City: Fitchburg
- Community Size: Less than 10,000, 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Clinic
- Number of Providers:
- Agency: MedSource Consultants
