Job Description

Job Description:

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.

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