Gastroenterologist- California
9 days ago
San Francisco
Description The Gastroenterologist provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients and performs related duties. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Provides primary, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician’s medical specialty., • Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary., • Provides diagnosis and treats injuries, illnesses, and disorders, • Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients, • May hospitalize patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital., • On rotational basis, serves as the on-call physician when the clinic is not open., • Is able to work on Saturday clinic on a rotational basis., • Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients, • Prescribes medications or therapies., • Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner., • Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient’s families concerning treatment and care of patients., • Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided., • Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvements plans., • Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies., • Documents electronically with EHR system., • Attends all medical staff meeting and participates in the community health center’s Quality Assurance program., • Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations, • Assists in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel., • Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large., • Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come for training., • May provide supervision to mid level providers such as NP or PA., • Full-time physicians are generally required to maintain hospital privileges, this may include coverage of the emergency room and inpatient services for patients if this is a requirement by the hospital to maintain hospital privileges., • Graduation from an accredited school of medicine., • Licensed to practice medicine in the State of California., • Ability to work as team with other health professionals and non-medical personnel., • Board eligible or certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn or Emergency Medicine., • If providing subspecialty or specialty services, be board eligible or certified to that specific specialty or fellowship., • Current documentation of Basic Life Support is required. LANGUAGE: • Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English., • Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) is required., • Fluent in other languages is a plus. STATUS: This is an FLSA exempt position. This is an OSHA high-risk position.