Physician Assistant-Pediatric Surgery
Job Category: Professional
Schedule: Full time
Shift: 1 - Day Shift
TMCOne along with Arizona Pediatric Surgery are currently recruiting for a physician assistant to provide excellent care to the children of Tucson and Southern Arizona. This is a clinic and hospital based role where the hours will vary. This role would be to support the surgical portion of the practice as opposed to the urology side.
Monday-Friday, 4 days in the hospital, 1 clinic day.
6 days of call per month that can be taken from home!
- Obtain patient history and perform physical exam
- Evaluate new patients with operative and non-operative pediatric surgery concerns (drain abscesses, remove stitches, remove drains, train patients on gastrostomy tube care, train patients on stoma care, etc.)
- Manage follow up patients who have non-operative pediatric surgery conditions (example: pectus carinatum)
- Train in neonatal circumcision and perform/manage those patients
- Assist in pre and post op care for pediatric surgery patients
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION: Completion of an approved physician assistant program, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
EXPERIENCE: Internship and two (2) years’ experience strongly preferred, but not required.
LICENSURE OR CERTIFICATION: A current Physician’s Assistant license in state of Arizona and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and DEA certifications required. Dept Specific: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of physician assistant regulations and practices along with prescribing regulations
- Skill in applying medical care.
- Skill discharge planning or chronic care planning.
- Ability to apply use of Code via CPT and ICD-10.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from employees, patients and/or their representatives, and the general public.
- Ability to calculate figures and compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.