FAMILY PHYSICIAN

Company: Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: October 27, 2024

Job Description:

Job Responsibilities:

• Provides primary health care services to adults and children, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention as well as diagnosis and management of acute and chronic health conditions.
• Provides comprehensive primary care including inpatient services and after-hours coverage.
• Provides wellness care for adults and children including screening and immunizations.
• Teaches health promotion, wellness, and disease prevention.
• Diagnoses and, in partnership with the patient, manages acute and chronic health conditions.
• Orders, conducts, and interprets diagnostic studies and laboratory tests.
• Prescribes medication.
• Prepares and maintains medical patient reports and records.
• Participates in the development of medical policies, procedures, and medical standards of care.
• Participates in the evaluation of the care given.
• Participates in the training of nurse practitioners, medical students, and medical residents.
• Participates in clinic staffing, Quality Assurance Committee meetings, and Total Quality Management trainings and work groups as requested.
  Qualifications:
• Licensed as a physician in the State of Wisconsin.
• Completion of Family Practice Residency from an accredited Family Medicine Program.
• Board certification or eligibility for Board Certification in Family Practice.
• Insurable for liability coverage as a Family Practitioner
• Working knowledge of the social and cultural factors associated with the community's use of social and health care services.
• Ability to understand patient attitudes and needs, develop and orient program goals and concepts accordingly, and work effectively toward their accomplishment with all staff members.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, officials, the public, patients, other private and public organizational representatives, health care personnel, and community groups and organizations.
• Ability to work under pressure, maintain personal composure, evaluate situations act/react appropriately, and use tact in dealing with visitors, patients, and difficult situations.
• Ability to identify and maintain confidential material.
• Ability to interpret and conform program operations to applicable laws, rules, regulations, and funding source requirements and according to acceptable standards.
• Spanish speaking preferred.

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