Locum Tenens Family Practice: Outpatient Only Job in Abilene, Texas
MD/DO
- Primary Care Physician - Locums
Abilene CBOC - West Texas VAMC
The Abilene Community Based
Outpatient Clinic is designed to bring primary care and mental health services
to eligible Veterans living in the following counties: Nolan, Taylor, Fisher, Jones and Shackelford.
POSITION OVERVIEW (duties include but are not limited to)
- Services
provided shall be performed in an ambulatory care setting at the WTVAHCS
Facility.
- Provider
shall see patients for general medicine problems including performing the
history and physical exam, making electronic progress notes, scheduling return
visits, writing orders for lab and x-ray, prescribing medications, etc.
Functioning as a primary care provider, the provider shall request, as
indicated, consultations from specialists and subspecialists on the WTVAHCS
staff.
- Provider
shall participate in quality management activities that pertain to his/her duties.
- In
addition to the above clinical responsibilities, provider shall hold routine
administrative duties.
- Shall
participate in clinical conferences for staff and shall attend medical staff
and service-level meetings.
- Services
shall be performed in accordance with VA policies and procedures and the
regulations of the medical staff bylaws of WTVAHCS.
- All
referrals for non-VA-administered care will be pre-authorized by the ACOS,
Ambulatory Care Service (or designee) during regular office hours or by the
Chief of Staff (or designee) during non-administrative hours, prior to
initiating patient scheduling or transfer. VA shall not be financially
responsible for improperly authorized or for unauthorized care provided to
patients.
- Provider
shall enter all medical documentation in the Computerized Patient Records
System (CPRS) and electronically sign all.
- Enter
orders and prescriptions electronically using CPRS, as appropriate.
- Complete
electronic clinical reminders in accordance with VA policy and procedures using
CPRS. Provider must comply with all VA performance measure requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Must
be Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Internal Medicine
(ABIM) or American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).
- Must
have current license to practice medicine in any state, Territory, or
Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia.
- Must
have current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) as certified by the
American Heart Association (AHA).
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