Physician, Healthcare Consultant, Medical Doctor

002332SR

School/Unit Harvard University Central Administration

Job Function Health Care

Location Cambridge

Job Type Part-time

Salary Grade 090

FLSA Status Exempt

Union 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary

Term Appointment No

By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

Harvard University's Central Administration (CADM) is a 5,000+ employee organization that supports the university's overall excellence by understanding and serving the needs of its schools, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and surrounding communities. Through dynamic and collaborative partnerships, CADM provides high-quality and efficient services to the schools to help them achieve their goals.

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is the on-site multi-specialty medical practice and health administration for the Harvard community. It provides care to students, faculty, staff, eligible post-docs, retirees, and their dependents. HUHS also manages two university-owned health plans, HUGHP (for faculty and staff) and SHIP (for students), and collaborates with other departments to address public health needs.

Provides comprehensive primary health care to the University's student, faculty/staff and retiree populations. Responsible for ambulatory medicine and on call coverage. Participates in a team with physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses to provide high quality and compassionate care and provides periodic health educational outreach. May participate in teaching residents and medical students and may practice travel medicine.

• Demonstrates cultural sensitivity and empathy for all patients of Harvard's diverse patient population.
• PCP will have outpatient responsibilities for acute, chronic, and preventive care as a practicing physician.
• Oversees the care of a panel of primary care patients, attending to patient needs both in the office and between visits, by reviewing care received outside HUHS, laboratory data, secure messages from HUHS care providers and from the patients themselves, and ordering tests as needed to ensure maintenance of health and appropriate management of chronic medical conditions.
• Coordinate the primary care provided to adult members of our diverse community at HUHS, including all undergraduate and graduate/professional Harvard-affiliated students, regardless of the duration of academic studies, as well as faculty, staff, retirees, and dependents. PCPs directly manage general medical problems of an acute and chronic nature, and place special emphasis on preventive health and education.
• Perform complete physical exams at a frequency appropriate to age and gender and order appropriate laboratory, x-ray, and other diagnostic and medical procedures to meet short-term health care needs, maintain health, and prevent disease.
• Plans, directs and coordinates the acute medical care, treatment of chronic disease, and health promotion of all adult HUHS patients.
• Manages the appropriate referral of patients to other health care providers for specialized needs. All referrals are made balancing patient needs and HUHS guidance for most cost-effective providers of care.
• Educate patients based on age, gender, psychosocial and cultural context, and overall health of the patient on illness or its complications, and on ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Advise the patient with an illness on the most clinically appropriate and cost-effective therapy, weighing and discussing the potential risks and benefits of treatment. HUHS embraces the principle of patient-centered care and shared decision making.
• Works closely with other members of their primary care team (nurse practitioner, team nurse, and health assistants). Serves as a consultant for team nurse practitioners
• Works closely with members of the care coordination team, referrals coordinators, and urgent care providers to ensure seamless handoffs to care by other providers, both inside and outside of HUHS.
• Reports safety events to Safety Reporting Team to ensure a culture of safety at HUHS.
• Participates in HUHS continuous improvement efforts by knowing and understanding HUHS strategic goals, and by participating in team huddles and projects to reach these goals.
• Understands and complies with HUHS public health initiatives.
• Participates in on-call schedule. On-call responsibilities include answering calls directed by Care Net, HUPD, the administrator on call, or from patients to MD on call.
• Participates in Continuing Medical Education activities to further medical knowledge and spreads knowledge as needed to other team members.
• Participates on HUHS committees as assigned by Chief of Medicine.
• Fosters positive working…