ATC Healthcare is looking for an experienced MD Physician for an opening at: Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Saline, MI
Monday-Friday: 8-4:30 or 7:30-4
Full Time
3 Month Initial Contract
Pay Rate $212.00 Hourly
Job Description:
General Summary of Function/Purpose of Position:
The physician assesses and manages conditions/illnesses of the assigned patients at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry (CFP). This position is responsible for providing medical care and treatment to the patients, including, physical examinations assessments of injuries/illnesses, preventive health measures, adverse drug reactions and drug interactions; and minor first aide to the staff at the CFP. This position, on a regular basis, provides direct health care services to persons in the care of custody of the state and has unsupervised access to controlled substances. This position provides consultative services for a specialized program of psychiatric services at CFP for the patients, including training other health care professionals and support staff in the medical review of cases, describe the assigned duties, percent of time spent performing each duty, and what is done to complete each duty.
Assigned duties (from most important to least important) and the total percentage of all duties performed:
Duty 1
General Summary: Percentage: 60
- Provides medical consultation to the Psychiatrists on staff and other clinical departments.
- Makes daily rounds to evaluate the physical condition of the patients as referred by the unit psychiatrists, do necessary physical examinations, establish diagnosis, and prescribe medication/treatment.
- Arrange for outside consultations, when necessary. Incorporate the recommendations of the consultant in treatment planning. Contact other physicians and other medical specialists to obtain additional information to clarify information presented by claimants for benefits.
- Communicate with patient's relatives/guardian to discuss physical condition, prognosis, and treatment plan.
- Provides review of medical issues (including symptomatically previous laboratory or other testing, previous medical diagnoses, and treatment) for purposes of assessing patients' eligibility for Social Security Disability SSD.
- Interprets medical information provided by other (e.g. outside) medical specialists who have been consulted to evaluate patients, to facilitate optimal understanding, quality and continuity of care between these outside specialists and physicians and other members of the treatment team.
- Such interpretation helps treatment team members (e.g. social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists) better understand patients' medical issues so that they can help encourage compliance or provide accurate feedback to patients who are having difficulty accepting, complying with, or understanding specific medical issues that have become a focus of treatment.
- Provides training for health care professionals (e.g. psychiatrists, nurses, social workers) and support staff regarding medical issues that have emerged in cases involving medical review of sentinel events (e.g. patient deaths, near-miss events) for purposes of education and improving patient care processes. The Physician 18 regularly partakes in intense analysis work groups examining such cases for medical review and is a regular part of a mortality.
- Review team that reviews the quality of care provided to patients who have passed away during their stay. Once results of such reviews are presented, the Physician 18 plays an important role in educating professional and support staff about medical issues that were involved in the event being reviewed. In cases of following a patient death due to cardiac causes, the physician would provide education to health care professionals and support staff regarding the evaluation and management of chest pain.
- Assess patient prior to discharge and recommend follow up care of medical problems.
- Completes death summaries and other reports as required.
- Act as medical consultant to the psychiatric staff.
- Provide consultative services for a specialized program and its serviced agencies.
- Provides consultation on medical issues to the unit director.
- Provide training to other health care professionals and support staff.
Duty 2
General Summary: Percentage: 30
- Provides medical care and treatment to assigned patients.
- Obtain detailed history and performs comprehensive physical exam on assigned patients.
- Assess and treat acute/chronic medical problems; provide direct patient care
- Order and interpret diagnostic results for deviation from normal and acts accordingly.
- Prescribes therapy or medications, monitors patient's clinical responses.
- Performs therapeutic procedures such as suturing, wound care, and infection management.
- Document in the chart patient's assessment, diagnosis, treatment/procedure performed; and develop plan of further interventions/treatment.
- Responds to medical emergencies, renders emergency treatment, refer critically ill patients to community hospitals.
- Performs annual assessment and provide preventive/health maintenance care for assigned patients who require hospitalization longer than one year based on patient age and medical history.
- Assesses patient prior to discharge and recommend follow-up care.
- Admit patients to the hospital and perform admission history and physical. Responsible for the overall medical care of the patients admitted to the Center.
- Examine and maintain records of patients using standard medical procedures, and using all types of equipment, instruments, and tests.
Duty 3
General Summary: Percentage: 10
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
- Attend departmental and medical staff meetings and participates in medical staff committee activities.
- Participate in the CQI activities.
- Establish medical procedures for the unit staff in the units assigned to this position.
The person in this position must be capable of:
-Working eight hours/day or a minimum of 40 hours a week.
- Accessing area/items as required in the completion of duties.
-Operating routing office equipment/processes in the completion of duties.
-Lifting a minimum of ten pounds.
-Performing CPI or a modified version thereof.
-Good communication.