Permanent Aerospace/Flight Medicine Job in Trenton, New Jersey
MD/DO -
Flight Medicine Physician
Beaches, Action, History,
Country-Life, City-Life, all combined
The
Community - Delaware River Region - Trenton, NJ
Welcome to New
Jersey’s Delaware River Region, where strolling main streets of days gone by
and hiking winding trails in secluded forests make you feel like you’re in
another time. With more than 150 miles of shoreline along Delaware Bay and the
Delaware River, the Delaware River Region is a boater’s delight. Add some
culture with stops at Camden’s USS New Jersey, the most decorated battleship in
U.S. Navy history and Princeton’s War Memorial. Other attractions in the
Delaware River Region include Camden Children’s Garden, where kids can ride the
garden carousel or climb the treehouse and Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton,
home to 270 outdoor sculptures. Award-winning wineries can be found throughout
the region, including Coda Rossa Winery in Franklinville, which produces an
Ameritage (it's an award-winner) and an assortment of other wines. Beer
drinkers also have options here, with breweries like Berlin Brewing Company
offering microbrews made in-house.
McGuire Air Force Base aka
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL)
McGuire AFB, the
common name of the McGuire unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL),
is a United States Air Force base located in Burlington County, New Jersey,
approximately 15 miles from Trenton. It was consolidated with two adjoining US
Army and Navy facilities to become part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
October 2009, but remains commonly known by McGuire or McGuire AFB. McGuire in
nestled in North Hanover Township in a wooded, rural/agricultural area which is
the least densely populated area in the state. McGuire AFB neighbors NYC,
Philadelphia, and Atlantic City.
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
- Must
be a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an accredited
school.
- Board
certification in Aerospace Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine,
Occupational Medicine, or Preventative Medicine is highly desirable but not
required.
- Must
have at least three (3) years active duty US Military Flight Surgeon experience
which must be within the previous five (5) years of date of hire. Physicians
with 10 years active duty Flight Surgeon experience in the US Army or Navy, and
former Air Force Flight Surgeons who have been separated or retired more than
two (2) years, must attend the AF Aerospace Medicine Primary (AMP) 201 before
being granted full Flight Medicine privileges. Having completed a residency or
fellowship acceptable to the US Air Force Surgeon General, is desirable, but
not required.
- Must possess current unrestricted license to
practice in one of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Possess
a current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), and Pediatric Life Support
(PALS) as approved by the American Heart Association (AHA).
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