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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Physician Assistant

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryAdvanced Practice Providers

About the job

Requirements
  • Graduation from a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
  • Physician Assistants with less than five years of experience must have two years of recent orthopedic experience within the last five years.
  • Physician Assistant Seniors with five or more years of experience must have five years in outpatient orthopedic specialties.
  • A California Physician Assistant license without restriction is required.
  • National Board Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants is required.
  • A California driver's license is required if required for the position.
  • Drug Enforcement Administration registration with Schedules 2, 2N, 3, 3N, 4, and 5 registered to a California address is required.
  • American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification is required.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification is required.
  • Healthcare providers must complete credentialing and approval of Standardized Procedures, generally through the Office of Medical Affairs & Governance before their first working day; this process takes 60–90 days and may vary.
Responsibilities
  • Provide evidence-based patient care in the Physician Assistant's clinical practice area.
  • Provide routine, acute, critical, and specialty care within granted privileges and standardized procedures.
  • Perform non-invasive or invasive procedures and operative first assist where included in granted privileges and standardized procedures.
  • Exercise only privileges granted by the Committee on Interdisciplinary Practice, Executive Medical Board, and Governance Advisory Council.
  • Provide clinically indicated care that meets the applicable standard of care.
  • For UCSF-hired advanced practice providers with clinical responsibilities at facilities outside UCSF Medical Center and Clinics, comply with the applicable California regulations and facility bylaws, rules, regulations, and policies, and provide clinically indicated care meeting the applicable standards of care.
  • Obtain credentialing and privileges and follow the governing documents of outside facilities when UCSF clinical responsibilities require care there.
Desired Qualifications
  • Orthopedic inpatient experience in addition to the required outpatient orthopedic specialty experience for Physician Assistant Seniors.
  • Five or more years of Physician Assistant experience in orthopedics within the past five years, including independent ambulatory patient encounters across all orthopedic specialties.
  • Experience with inpatient management of orthopedic patients.
  • Ability to perform joint aspirations and injections.
  • Ability to interpret X-ray and MRI images of the shoulders, hips, knees, elbow, wrist, hand, and spine.

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UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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