About this opportunity
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic lists this Infectious Disease Physician opportunity in sugar land, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Position Highlights and Responsibilities:
The Infectious Disease Physician serves as a consultant to other physicians for patients with infectious diseases in an outpatient and/or hospital setting.
The Infectious Disease is expert in history taking, physical examination, test interpretation, patient counseling and differential diagnosis and medical therapeutics.
Accountable to the Associate Medical Specialty Director, for assuring the most effective delivery of care while meeting and exceeding compliance standards.
The physician will have responsibility and decision- making for the overall conduct of Infectious Disease diagnosis and treatment of patient related issues in the outpatient setting.
Supervision and management (where appropriate) of patients transitioning from hospital to out-patient care
Initiation and Supervision of home IV therapies.
Antibiotic stewardship in conjunction with P&T committee
Continuity outpatient clinics
Virtual health as pertains to Infectious Diseases
Availability for telephone and E-consults during regular business hours
Virtual visits
Telephone consults
Virtual consults
Video curbside consults
Indirect patient care: returning telephone calls, responding to patient emails, reviewing and renewing prescriptions, reviewing laboratory and imaging data, communicating results to patients, and implementing improved quality in systems delivery.
Supervision of ID purchased services
Education of clinical staff regarding infectious disease diagnosis and treatment
Liaison with Wound Care
Liaison with Medical Director of Hospital Services
Regular meetings with Associate Medical Directors
Office hours to meet demand- time and location to be determined
What makes an Optum Career different?
Be part of a best-in-class employee experience that enables you to practice at the top of your license
We believe that better care for clinicians equates to better care for patients
We are influencing change collectively on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations
Practice medicine autonomously, with the support, not restrictions, of a sustainable and thriving national health care organization
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
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Worksite address
sugar land, TX, 77479, US
Who can apply
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