Physician Internal Medicine

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Contractor - 1099 Professional Fort Hood, TX, Fort Hood, TX, US 1 Attachments

13 days ago Requisition

Location: Fort Hood, TX

Position Type:
Full time (30-40+ hours/week), 1099

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Education Level: MD or DO

Job Category:
Healthcare

We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture’s 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:

• Integrity
• Personability
• Transparency

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.

Vighter is recruiting an Internal Medicine Physician to serve at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at and around Fort Hood, TX. This role delivers patient-centered, evidence-based care while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, and Vighter clinical policies. The physician functions as a key member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, supporting quality care delivery, clinical documentation, and continuity of care in a secure and highly regulated setting.

Vighter is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which provides professional healthcare staffing services to Federal, State, and Local government clients. The company is quality focused and registered ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by The Joint Commission in Healthcare Staffing Services.

• Provide medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care for adult patients.
• Performs diagnosis and treatment of the more complex internal medicine problems referred.
• Apply advanced professional knowledge of areas within the field of internal medicine to include, but not limited to, hematology, cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine, infectious disease, and nephrology.
• May serve as attending physician of the inpatient consult service by providing advice on perioperative management and management of other acute medical problems.
  
  Provide high-quality standards of care as mandated by the Joint Commission and appropriate DHA, CRDAMC, and local regulations and policies.
• Interacts with emergency department, clinics, other hospitals, and other specialty services to facilitate the transfer of patients into and out of the ward and observation units.
• Performs and interprets medical procedures to include, but not limited to, thoracentesis, central venous line placement, arterial blood gas sampling, paracentesis, nasogastric and feeding tube placement, joint aspiration and injection, graded exercise testing and lumbar puncture and interprets procedures such as electrocardiograms and pulmonary function tests.
• May be used as hybrid physician with both inpatient and outpatient duties, as determined by Department Chief.
• Exchange advice and consultation with other physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the area of Internal Medicine.
• Performs procedures to include, but not limited to, joint aspiration or injections, sigmoidoscopies, gastroscopies, proctoscopies.
• Refers patients to other specialty clinics for further evaluation on outpatient and/or inpatient basis.
• Perform ambulatory and acute care for patients as well as long term chronic and difficult patients.
• Order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays necessary to complete medical facts to include, but not limited to, blood counts, urinalysis, sedimentation rates, chest x-rays, and electrocardiograms.
• An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
• An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction
• Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the…