Physician (Hospitalist)

Overview

Physician (Hospitalist) Fort Carson, Colorado

Welcome to Fort Carson!

Fort Carson, CO: Located just south of Colorado Springs, Ft. Carson combines scenic beauty, pleasant residential areas, and cultural activities to satisfy every taste. It is an unusually well-rounded military community which offers a variety of recreational and cultural opportunities. World-class ski resorts are available within a short 2 1/2 hour drive, golf courses and biking trails are available on the installation as well as in the surrounding community. Numerous colleges and universities are available for continuing education.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/

Responsibilities

POSITION DUTIES:

The incumbent functions under the administrative and clinical direction of the Chief of the Department of Primary Care and Chief of Medicine Service who outlines the general scope of professional services and administrative policies. Incumbent's professional performance is evaluated in terms of competency and accomplishment.

MAJOR DUTIES

• Serves as physician in the Inpatient Medical Service. Performs highly responsible duties in the advanced examination, diagnosis, and treatment of inpatients admitted to the Inpatient Medical Service, based on the level of professional ability, Examines and conducts thorough studies of patients presenting medical management problems. Evaluates laboratory and clinical findings, differentiating among the various contributory causes, and prescribes appropriate treatment. Follows through on cases to insure effectiveness and alters course of treatment as indicated. Collaborates with specialists in other areas on cases involving interrelated problems. Serves as the attending physician and admits to ICU/SCU, General Medicine Ward. Patients include all age ranges from 18 year-old young adults to geriatric. Incumbent needs experience in ICU medicine to include advanced access techniques, invasive diagnostic procedures such as paracentesis and thoracentesis. The Hospitalist would work closely with EACH primary care providers, military consultants and civilian consultants in the local community. Directs and supervises mid-level medical care providers, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners assigned to the Inpatient Medical Services.
• Provides general administrative supervision to assigned personnel. Plans, schedules, assigns, and directs the work of others; establishes work priorities and deadlines; explains work requirements, methods and procedures as needed; reviews work upon completion.
  
  

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

US Citizenship required

Board Certified/Eligible

Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicants graduation. [A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country).

Candidates must have a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.