Overview
The Staff Physician provides direct patient care and emergency services to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct patient care in the office and at other locations, develops treatment plans, and assesses patient’s response to treatment while ensuring that all health care services provided are of the highest quality.
- Provides high quality emergency care to patients on an on-call basis and in rotation with other physicians to ensure patient health care needs are met at all times (Industrial Medical Center's Staff Physician does not provide on-call services).
- 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. Assists in ensuring that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
- 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.
- Collaborates with other physicians 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 to share expertise with new personnel, volunteers, and interning students.
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
Qualifications
- MD
- Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License