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Job description
Job Title
Physician Support Duties
The duties and responsibilities include:
Serving at various IHSC medical facilities on temporary duty (TDY) as assigned providing direct patient care, with at least 50% travel.
Providing specialized medical services to outpatients and medical care to inpatients in facilities with a medical housing unit.
Working in concert with both facility staff and consultant specialists in various clinical areas.
Promoting health, disease prevention, and comprehensive health care in accordance with current accepted medical practices and procedures.
Providing clinical services via virtual means.
Collecting comprehensive medical and social history to include a review of all body systems.
Conducting physical examinations, initial and follow-up assessments for acute and chronic medical conditions.
Examining, ordering, and performing appropriate diagnostic testing and providing necessary treatment and/or medications and other therapeutic interventions as required.
Administering or directing administration of both curative and preventative inoculations.
Providing clinical assessment and treatment.
Ensuring that proper evaluations and treatments are carried out and documented.
Assuring proper maintenance of medical records and preparation of reports as related to the area of responsibility.
Fully utilizing health services for treatment, rehabilitative, and diagnostic modalities.
Referring selected cases to consultant specialists when necessary.
Rendering emergency medical/surgical/mental health services as required.
Referring detainees requiring hospitalization to a local hospital and to an appropriate admitting physician.
Providing clinical oversight and being responsible for all health care delivered.
Acting as a consultant for Advanced Practice Providers (APP), nurses, and clinical staff in the performance of their duties providing clinical oversight and direction.
Having other licensed professionals (staff physicians, APPs, etc.) functioning under their license or privileging depending upon the situation.
Being responsible for the clinical oversight of provider teams and providing input to the Clinical Director regarding team member's performance.
Consulting with the Health Services Administrator /Clinical Director /Regional Clinical Director and other providers and specialists for complex medical and/or psychiatric patients as required by IHSC policy.
Making rounds on detainees admitted under their care with APPs and nursing personnel, as described in applicable local procedures.
Being required to provide on-call medical duty coverage as needed after regular work hours and may need to return to the facility to provide medical care if appropriate.
Constantly monitoring and evaluating the quality of patient care, providing data to the departmental Continuous Quality Improvement, other agency units and, other agencies or committees as required.
Being asked to see patients on an interim basis who are not in the category of his/her expertise.
Possessing the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform his/her duties within a varied work setting.
Being asked to function as the Clinical Director in his/her absence.
Making recommendations on matters of policy, procedures, training, personnel, and equipment as related to specific area of responsibility.
Following supervisory chain of command.
Other duties as assigned
Worksite address
washington, DC, 20022, US
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