Full Time Primary Care Physician

Duties include but are not limited to:

- Diagnose, treat and manage a panel of patients.

- Provider comprehensive patient-centered primary medical care.

- Identify acute/non-acute, chronic health problems.

- Use principles of risk management to identify system issues which impact patient care.

- Order and evaluate appropriate diagnostic tests.

- Adhere to clinical practice guidelines for patient chronic disease.

- Conduct appropriate preventative screens and diagnostic tests.

- Provider appropriate disposition of identified health care problems.

- Participate in Primary Care multidisciplinary activities.

- Inform Veterans to accomplish shared decision making in medical treatment/regimens.

- Demonstrate medical expertise in diagnosing and treating multi-symptomatic patients.

- Adhere to local policies, procedures and directives related to timeliness of documentation and encounters for verification of patient visits, findings, and medical recommendations in the electronic medical record.

- Use Computerized Patient Record System to review and update patient's electronic

medical record.

- Maintain view alerts.

- Utilization of Telehealth services.

- Supervise mid-levels.

The Physician will report directly to the Chief of Primary Care Service.