Permanent Aerospace/Flight Medicine Job in Tucson, Arizona
MD/DO
- Flight Medicine Physician
Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base
Located
within the city limits of Tucson, approximately 5 miles south-southeast of
downtown Tucson. The base is best known as the location of the Air Force
Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG),
the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft. Tucson's
dry climate and alkali soil made it an ideal location for aircraft storage and
preservation.
REQUIREMENTS (duties
include but are not limited to)
- Provide
health care to beneficiaries assigned to the Flight Medicine Clinic.
- Care
shall include but not be limited to continuing, comprehensive health
maintenance and medical care. Maintain a program of comprehensive health, to
include preventive medicine, behavioral sciences, and community health.
- May
become the primary care manager for a panel of patients. As a PCM, the flight
medicine provider will be the primary person responsible for the management of
the health and wellness of his/her assigned patients.
- Examination
of patients, formulation differential diagnostic plans, defines and orders
required diagnostic testing.
- Interpretation
of examination findings and test results, and implementation of treatment
plans.
- Determine
need for consultation and assist in medical care and treatment provided at the
direction of other specialists.
- Approve/disapprove
subspecialty referrals.
- Answer
patient telephone consults with the assistance of clinic staff.
- Provide
primary and secondary preventive maintenance care.
- Provide
appropriate military specific documentation such as (but not limited to)
narrative medical summaries for Medical Evaluation Boards and medical profile
paperwork.
- The
Chief, Flight Medicine Clinic will make specific duties/patient care
assignments. All inpatients will be admitted as per the local MTF instructions.
- Be
capable of adequately diagnosing and treating a wide-range of adult acute and
chronic diseases and injuries, including but not limited to, conditions of the:
- Skin Pulmonary
System, Head Gastrointestinal System, Eyes Musculoskeletal System, Ears
Genitourinary System, Nose Reproductive System, Throat Lymphatic System, Neck
Central Nervous System, Cardiovascular System Endocrine System, Psychiatric and
Behavioral Health.
- Be
capable of adequately diagnosing and treating a wide-range of pediatric (ages
2-18) acute and chronic diseases and injuries, including but not limited, to
conditions of the:
- Skin Pulmonary
System, Head Gastrointestinal System, Eyes Musculoskeletal System, Ears
Genitourinary System, Nose Reproductive System, Throat Lymphatic System, Neck
Central Nervous System, Cardiovascular System Endocrine System, Psychiatric and
Behavioral Health, Well Child Checks, Normal Age Appropriate Development
Assessments.
- Have
sufficient experience to be able to adequately perform medical procedures to
include, but not limited to, the following:
- Secure and maintain
an adequate airway to include endotracheal intubation, Cardioversion of life
threatening arrhythmias, Simple minor surgical procedures: punch biopsies,
excision of skin lesions, Simple abscess incision and drainage, Nail
trephination, Sling or swath injuries, Lumbar puncture, Suture simple
laceration, Suture removal.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Successful
completion of an accredited Family Medicine Residency or Aerospace Medicine
Residency preferred.
- Current
board certification by one of the following boards: the American Board of
Family Medicine, American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, American
Board of Preventive Medicine, or board certified by the American Osteopathic
Association through the American Osteopathic Board of Preventive Medicine.
License cannot be under investigation nor have any adverse action pending from
a State Board or national licensing/certification agency.
- Possess
a current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Life Support (PALS) in accordance with 355 MDG
policies.
- Working
knowledge of computer operations and proficiency in the use of basic word
processing, data entry and automated medical records.
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