Internal Medicine Physician

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Examine, diagnose, treat, counsel and prescribe medications for patients as needed.

• Provide physical examinations and other general services

• Record a summary in each patient's medical chart after each consultation.

• Make referrals to medical or clinical specialists when necessary.

• Responsible for providing accurate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

• Responsible for the improvement in patient health and quality of life.

• Independently resolves daily medical issues.

• Ensure guidance is received on policy or exceptional situations.

• May provide medical supervision to other clinical staff.

Minimum Qualifications

Medical Doctor with a valid Virginia license

Board eligible/certified in psychiatric, internal medicine, family practice, emergency medicine, or other similar medical/surgical specialty

Graduation from an accredited medical school

Considerable active medical treatment and management experience

Skilled in technical and management aspects of health care quality improvement and performance management

Competent in evaluation, diagnostic, and treatment planning

Competent in staff education and supervision

Ability to manage individual quality improvement projects and a quality improvement/quality assurance enterprise

Ability to translate project findings into sustainable practice using conventional health system approaches such as PDSA, Six Sigma, Lean, etc.

Knowledge of conventional individual and health system performance metrics and their application

Skilled in communication, health care education, and working with multi-disciplinary teams

Ability to work cooperatively with the nursing department and the allied health professionals with the Healthcare Administrator

Additional Considerations

Experience working in a correctional medical setting

Direct participation in quality improvement and quality assurance programming as the department head or private/group practice

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Full Time