Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist the Physician in treating patients.
• Evaluate patients, take history, and perform pertinent physical examination.
• Provide post-surgical would care and follow up.
• Coordinate care of patients (testing and preparation for procedures)
• Record and ensure availability and completeness of documentation, reports, and imaging examinations.
• Provide patient education, counseling, and instruction.
• Facilitate supervising Physician referral of patients to the appropriate health care facilities, agencies, or other resources of the community or other physicians.
• Dictate progress notes, history, and physical, and discharge summary.
• Administer and/or order medication upon request of supervising Physician.
• Initiate emergency measures on patients as required.
• Perform chart review.
• Provide in-service and daily consultation to clinical staff.
• Initiate and monitor patients for special tests.
• Counsel patients on preventive care.
• Share on-call responsibilities with a supervising Physician on back-up.
• Answer patient calls.
• All other specific tasks delegated by supervising Physician in accordance with the Physician Assistant’s knowledge and expectance developed under the supervising Physician.
• Adhere to office policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Hold a current license in good standing.
• Maintain certification in accordance with Department of Regulations
• Able to perform health care tasks efficiently and effectively consistent with patient’s health and welfare.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Good diagnostic capabilities

Education and Experience Required

• Graduate of an approved program or its equivalent
• Meets the standards set by the Board of Medicine
• Experience in Internal Medicine preferred, but not required.