Physician - Medical Director of ECMO

Overview

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

• Patient Care — 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.
• Emergency care — Provides high quality emergency care to patients on an 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 in an effort to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
• Continuous quality improvement programs — Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multi-disciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts. Ensures that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
• Policy and mission alignment — 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.
• Professional development — Promotes the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in the field 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 to ensure the provision of high quality medical care and technologically advanced health care services by the hospital.
• Education and training — Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, and training sessions to share 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.

• MD
• Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License