Internal Medicine Physician - Complex Care - Care Connections
Company: Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Location: Lancaster
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
Care Connections is recruiting for a 0.9 FTE Extensivist, to
serve patients in our clinic. Care Connections is a small, closed
panel practice, serving patients with chronic medical conditions.
Position is dayshift, Monday-Friday, with on-call rotation.
Holidays follow LGHP schedule. Duties include both outpatient
office visits/primary care, as well as inpatient hospital rounding
on paneled patients. Job Description POSITION SUMMARY: Provide high
level and patient-centered care in the discipline of Extensivist
Medicine.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the
ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the
following duties:
- Provide ambulatory, home, inpatient and consultative nursing
home care to patients in the High Risk Medical Pilot
- Attend to patients in the High Risk Medical Pilot office: Care
Connections
- Attend to patients enrolled in the program in the hospital on a
daily basis in a consultative fashion
- Take night call in rotation with other medical staff to provide
24/7 coverage for patients via phone.
- Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation
therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care
providers.
- Consults with patients to determine the appropriate course of
treatment.
- Recommends and orders tests to determine extent of illness or
help diagnose condition.
- Monitors lab results, medication adherence and medication
toxicities.
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication,
vaccinations, and other medical care to treat or prevent illness,
disease, or injury.
- Explain and discuss procedures, test results, or prescribed
treatment with the patient.
- Refers patients to medical specialists when necessary.
SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary
to the primary duties listed above:
- Attend daily and weekly team meetings; provide medical care
plan consultation during meetings.
- Provides clinical and didactic teaching to residents, medical
students and staff on related topics and issues.
- Monitor financial performance of the practice as well as
utilization of all patients enrolled thru the practice.
- Represents the practice at Hospital/LGHP committees in such a
manner that the burden of attending the meetings is reasonably
distributed among all of the physicians in the group.
- Assists in recruiting and interviewing of new physicians and
staff to the practice.
- Acquires the necessary CME credits and takes the certification
examination to maintain re-certification status.
- Other duties as assigned.JOB REQUIREMENTSMINIMUM REQUIRED
QUALIFICATIONS:
- A Medical Doctor (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.)
- Completion of Internal Medicine Residency or Family Medicine
Residency.
- Board Eligible or Board Certified in Internal/Family
Medicine.
- Current medical licensure issued by PA State Board of Medicine
or the PA State Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
- A health care provider in good standing with Medicare,
Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs,
i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any
other federal or state health insurance program.PREFERRED
QUALIFICATIONS:
- At least three years clinical patient care experience as a
general internal or family physician with acute care, hospitalist
experience.COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTSATTENTION/CONCENTRATION - The
following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus
on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
- The position requires strong concentration skills. The
individual must have the ability to voluntarily sustain
concentration to a task over an extended period of time as a result
of an effortful and usually deliberate heightened and focused state
of attention.NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY - The following level of
ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain
material:
- A large portion of this position required reliance on verbal
memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal
information, either in written or spoken form, is a major
requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be
able to attend to and process multiple bits of information
simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and
categorize this information effectively so that later recall is
feasible.PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING - The
following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to
think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more
elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
- The position required much autonomy of thought and problem
solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical
or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be
able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to
form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances,
apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of
subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of
hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful
interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able
to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The
individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of
inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to
deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.APTITUDES:
The following are essential requirements of the position in
relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a
worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:Leadership, control and
planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership,
direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing,
supervising, formulating practices, or making final
decisions.Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same
type of work for extended periods of time, according to set
procedures, sequence or pace.Performing under stressful conditions:
Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency,
critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in
which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of
the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular,
consistent part of the job.Variety and change: Ability to perform a
variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a
different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving
significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures,
environmental factors, physical demands, or work
situations.Communication: Ability to exchange information with
others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical
information.Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain
relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and
resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of
others.
Keywords: Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Scranton , Internal Medicine Physician - Complex Care - Care Connections, Healthcare , Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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