Physician (Internal Medicine) Joint Base San Antonio

Time to invest in some new footwear because if you’re San Antonio-bound, you’d better show up in boots! The Alamo City is one of the military’s most envied postings and is often referred to as “Military City USA”. Low cost of living, affordable homes, and the lack of state tax on retirement income are a few financial perks to living and retiring in this Texas city. A robust job market that seems partial to government and defense/security contracting ensures employment opportunities for spouses or transitioning service members. San Antonio is the country’s seventh fastest growing city yet has somehow managed to retain a “small town feel.” Quality schools and friendly locals (most with military ties) are additional  perks to living in San Antonio.

Some things you should know before you get here: trucks are the norm (the bigger, the better), love for The Spurs (NBA) runs deep, the H-E-B obsession is real (it’s a grocery store), rodeos are life, and don’t call it “San Antone”—that’s just wrong. The community boasts a vibrant Hispanic population, and enhances everything from the food, to the music, to community events. You don’t necessarily need to speak Spanish to get around, but you’d better know how to say barbacoa, tamales, and cascarones.

Name brand shopping (IKEA is the latest arrival of note), restaurants, and all variety of entertainment all add to San Antonio’s quality of life. SeaWorld, the San Antonio Zoo, Six Flags Fiesta Texas, and downtown museums are all fun outings for kids and families. Tube or kayak down a river, play or fish in the lakes, or relax by San Antonio’s famous downtown River Walk. Museums, art galleries, and historical landmarks—remember The Alamo?—round out San Antonio’s cultural offerings. Tex-mex cuisine arguably originated here, and some up and coming culinary trendsetters are making a name for themselves in the Pearl District downtown, alongside several notable breweries.

San Antonio has over 300 days of sunshine with some hot summers, mild winters and pleasant spring and fall seasons. San Antonio is in Bexar County (it’s pronounced “BEAR”) in south central Texas, and is just south of the gorgeous Hill Country. It’s only about two hours from Austin, the beach, or the desert.

Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions.

POSITION DUTIES:

Works under the supervision of the Chief, Internal Medicine Service, who discusses policies and objectives. The incumbent exercises independent judgment in the medical treatment and management of patients and Internal Medicine Clinic (IMC) with the full range of conditions encountered in primary care, and in providing assistance and supervision to house staff. Effectiveness of service rendered to patients and in supervision of housestaff will be monitored through results obtained from peer review, continual quality improvement, chart reviews, and patient complaints and compliments.

MAJOR DUTIES

1. Serves as the primary care physician for adult patients who have both acute and chronic illnesses and conditions covering internal medicine. Daily work involves management of complicated medical problems such congestive heart failure, valvular heart disease, hypertension, peptic ulcer disease, thyroid disorders, diabetes, arthritic conditions etc. Examines patients, takes histories, performs physical examinations, orders laboratory tests, makes definitive diagnoses and prescribes treatment to meet needs of patients, and refers as appropriate to specialty/subspecialty care. Follows full care of all patients and insures return from consultant. Admits patients to the hospital when appropriate. Monitors and manages care for patients as they move through the system to ensure cost effective care.

Notifies patients of abnormal reports. Performs outpatient procedures to include graded exercise tests.

Serves as an inpatient general medicine ward attending physician. Must be available for telephonic or personal consultation for inpatient care when on call.

Responsible for consultative preoperative and perioperative recommendations to the surgical specialties in BAMC, as well as teaching consultative medicine to the housestaff assigned to his/her rotation. Responsibilities include night and weekend call when assigned to the consult service. Serve as an inpatient and outpatient consultant for the Internal Medicine Consult Service.

Participates in the teaching activities of both residents and interns. Directs the input into continual quality improvement of the Internal Medicine Training Program.

2. Attends Department or Hospital board or committee meetings. Participates in the clinic Utilization Management and Quality Assurance processes. Attends Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses and maintains specialty specific CME sufficient to satisfy the requirement of applicable licensing agencies and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Requirements:

US Citizenship required

Board Certified/Eligible

Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicants graduation. [A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country).

Candidates must have a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.