Physician (Pediatric Medical Geneticist) Joint Base San Antonio

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POSITION DUTIES:

Incumbent serves as Pediatric Medical Geneticist and the Medical Treatment Facility’s (MTF) resident authority in the planning, screening and coordination, and treatment of children and young adults presenting with genetic disorders or conditions.

MAJOR DUTIES:

1. Evaluates and manages patients referred. Collects, analyzes, manages, and documents data, results, and findings to determine the nature, magnitude, and interrelationships of physical, biological, psychological, social, and other comparable phenomena and processes. Acquires health histories, performs examination, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Prescribes plan of care, and documents patient progress and interventions. Care provided includes a broad spectrum of genetic services ranging from general pediatric genetics, general adult genetics, metabolics, prenatal genetics, cancer genetics, neurogenetics, cardiogenetics, and connective tissue disorders. Addresses the biological, social, and environmental influences of the developing patient, with an impact of disease and dysfunction on development. Assesses educational needs and level of understanding of families and determines best approach to fully meet learning requirements through use of appropriate adult training techniques. Performs specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including ordering and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests on patients with genetic or metabolic disorders. Utilizes cytogenetic, molecular, genomic and biochemical genetic testing to assist in specialized diagnostic evaluations, to implement therapeutic interventions and provide genetic counseling and prevention. Serves as consultation via direct inpatient and outpatient care, including telephone consultation, to other physicians, non-physician providers and other professional medical staff on the care of patients with urgent, emergent, and non-urgent medical problems.

Documents patient encounters, procedures, and recommendations through the use of electronic medical records and the MTF’s automated Health Systems. Performs emergency services or crisis intervention, including life-saving emergency procedures when situations warrant. 50%

2. Serves as subject matter expert for attending staff physicians in Genetic related diagnosis’s, evaluations, and treatments. Provides consultation to health care providers from a wide range of specialties, as well as preparation of reports. Directs and advises on care for patients with primary genetic disorders requiring hospitalization. Consults with other hospital services caring for inpatients (including the critically ill) with genetic conditions. Participates as a member of the medical treatment team as related to rehabilitative goals, patient response to treatment and recommendations for future goal setting. Collaborates with physicians and other health care providers/therapist with regards to patient progress, and healthcare service continuity, and in areas involving interrelated problems. 25%

3. Serves as member of the professional medical staff and/or faculty to provide advisory and consultative services on various meetings, committees, conferences and/or boards as well as appropriate leadership in the clinic. Serves as a member of the faculty for the Pediatric Residency Program. Participates in the ongoing medical education of medical students, residents, interns, and fellows through lectures and demonstrations, one-on-one consultations, and through an array of activities, including but not limited to training, mentoring, feedback, lecturing, precepting, didactics, attending graduate medical education meetings/conferences for plans and evaluation of residency education and residents, and training conferences or case discussions. 15%

4. Participates in Quality Assurance (QA) functions, performance improvement programs, risk management programs and peer-review programs. Interprets operating procedures, policies, and requirements of the hospital in relationship to clinical operating procedures and reference materials. Assists in peer reviews Genetics staff as required by credentialing office. Identifies developmental and/or training needs for staff. Makes recommendations on improvement of work methods and organizational features. 10%

Performs other duties 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.