Family Physician

• Provide primary medical care to patients, including collecting and recording patient information in the EMR in a thorough and timely manner
• prescribing or administering treatment
• ordering, performing, and interpreting tests and analyzing records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' conditions
• monitoring patients' conditions and progress and reevaluating treatments as necessary
• explaining procedures and discussing test results or prescribed treatments with patients
• advising patients concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention
• referring patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary
• and participating in hospital admission and follow-up of patients, making arrangement for services as needed
• Coordinate work with other members of the care team, including nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers
• Provide emergency medical treatment to WFH patients as needed, and provide emergency medical treatment as requested or appropriate to non-WFH patients who are at or near a location where the physician is present for the purpose of providing services to WFH patients
• Provide medical consultation and collaborative practice with certified nurse practitioners and cooperate in the development and implementation of nurse practitioner guidelines and patient management protocols
• Train residents, medical students, and other health care professionals
• Participate in newborn rounding and after-hours call rotation as needed
• Implement clinical department policies, protocols, and procedures that are in compliance with the most current, accepted professional standards, as well the standards of The Joint Commission
• Participate in activities to increase appropriate utilization of available services by patients of Westside Family Healthcare, Inc.
• Participate in staff education and professional development activities, including continuing education credit requirements to maintain licensure and Basic Life Support certification
• Participate in WFH performance improvement programs and in community education and outreach programs offered by Westside

• Graduate of an accredited school of medicine
• Completion of an appropriate accredited medical residency program
• Licensure to practice medicine in Delaware
• Basic life support certification
• Ability to travel between worksites as needed
• Certification or eligibility for certification by an applicable American Medical Specialty Board
• Eligibility for staff privileges to local hospitals associate with WFH
• Full-time experience in the practice of medicine in direct primary patient care, both outpatient and inpatient

Spanish language skills

$20,000 SIGN ON BONUS