What are the responsibilities and job description for the PHYSICIAN - PRIMARY CARE - WESTMORELAND COUNTY position at Independence Health System?
The Primary Care Physicians at Independence Health provide comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for chronic disease management, acute care needs, with a preventative care focus. Outpatient clinical responsibilities include Physicals, Annual Wellness Visits, and Well child checks, Paps, procedures, and initial diagnosis workups, acute care visits and chronic care follow-up visits (as determined by evidenced based medicine practices and patient needs), outpatient office call rotation requirements. Physicians utilize hospitalist services for inpatient care. The Physicians collaborate with other members of the care team including Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) and other clinical and non-clinical staff in the team-based outpatient office setting to provide high quality care. The physician is responsible for being a provider leader in the team-based care setting, supervision of APPs, teaching, system stewardship, and modeling behaviors of excellence and compassion in the primary care setting.
Required Qualifications/Experience
- Graduate of a medical school accredited by the LCME or ADA, OR
- Graduate of AMA governed fifth pathway program, OR
- Graduate of a medical school not otherwise mentioned with valid ECFMG certification AND graduate of accredited family medicine residency program.
- Graduate of an ACGME or AOA accredited residency program.
- Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
- Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.
Preferred Qualifications/Experience
- Model the ACGME six (6) core competencies.
- Experience in Healthcare setting.
License, Certification & Clearances
- Current medical license in the state of Pennsylvania.
- Board certification in Family Medicine by ABFM or AOA or Board Certified in Internal Medicine by ABIM.
- Act 33 with renewal
- Act 34 with renewal
- Act 73 FBI Clearance
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) approved curriculum of the America Heart Association (CPR and AED) program.
- Valid DEA License.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
- Incumbent will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.).
- Travel may be expected locally between System locations.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Independence Health and its affiliated companies are Equal Opportunity Employers. It is their policy to prohibit discrimination of any type and to afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other classification protected by law. Independence Health and its affiliated companies will comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Disclaimer
This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Moreover, duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.