Physician - Medical Director of ECMO

Job Description

The Staff Physician provides direct patient care and emergency services to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times.

Responsibilities

• Patient Care – Provides direct patient care in the office and at other locations, develops treatment plans, and assesses patients' response to treatment while ensuring that all health care services are of the highest quality.
• Emergency Care – Provides high quality emergency care to patients on-call basis and in rotation with other physicians in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times (Industrial Medical Center's Staff Physician does not provide on-call services).
• Quality and Performance Improvement – Investigates new techniques, practices, and equipment to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
• Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multidisciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Ensures the appropriate application of the hospital's mission and philosophy and departmental and hospital policies and procedures in a manner that promotes the provision of high quality health care services and departmental effectiveness.
• Promotes the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in the field of expertise through participation in job-relevant seminars and workshops, attendance at professional conferences, and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
• Collaboration and Partnership – Collaborates with other physicians in order to ensure the provision of high quality medical care and technologically advanced health care services by the hospital.
• Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, and training sessions in an effort to share his/her own expertise with others and further the quality of education and personal growth provided to new personnel, volunteers, and interning students.
• Other Duties – Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• MD
• Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License