PATIENT CARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Participates in continuing education as required for professional license maintenance.
• Coordinates with patients, providers, hospitals, and outside organizations regarding patient
care issues.
• Participates in peer review by performing chart review and working with the quality
improvement committee to develop clinical assessment tools, etc.
• Provides quality comprehensive primary care for a diverse population of at-risk patients,
particularly the LGBT community. Provides direct patient care in a full-time position, including,
if needed, evening work; other clinical administrative duties such as meetings, quality
assurance, follow-up on test results, and completion of patient forms.
• Provides comprehensive follow-up of laboratory tests including notification of patients of all
results according to our Center guidelines, and to provide appropriate
follow-up of all abnormal results following the highest standards of medical care.
• Provides education to patients on health promotion and disease prevention.
• Writes and refills prescriptions.
• Makes medically necessary patient referrals to specialists and for hospitalization or
recuperative care, or other appropriate care such as drug or alcohol detoxification. Provides
appropriate information to facilitate continuity of care.
• Provides urgent and emergency care as required in the course of offering primary medical care.
• Provides, with other physician staff members, continuous physician coverage, while on-site or
by telephone.
• Prepares accurate correspondence, reports, and technical documentation as required for
communication, recordkeeping, and/or reporting.
• Records all patient information timely using Electronic Medical Records, in accordance with the
guidelines and standards of our Center.
• Reviews and authorizes nurse's notes and documentation required for billing purposes.
Provides our support staff with adequate physician leadership.
• Serves as physician supervisor for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, ensuring the
highest quality clinical care for patients co-managed.
• Helps educate peers and other clinic staff by providing talks in areas of interest and expertise.
• Participates in the teaching of medical students and residents and acts as a role model and
mentor for students, residents and fellows as indicated.
• Responds to Behavioral Health and Case Management requests.
• Attends and actively participates in department meetings, general staff meetings, quality
assurance meetings, and other meetings, as required.
• Performs any other reasonable and appropriate duties at the request of the CMO.

MD DO Primary Care Physician Medical Doctor Loan Repayment Full time / Benefited