Full-Time NEW Pain Clinic Requires a Physician Assistant
Job Description
Physician Assistant for New Pain Clinic
David Grant USAF Medical Center
Travis AFB
California
CADUCEUS Healthcare is seeking experienced medical personnel for a New Pain Clinic at the David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, California. You would be providing services to the enlisted personnel and their beneficiaries. Position: Physician Assistant – Pain Medicine Work Schedule: 40 to 50 hours per week. Flexible schedule 8, 10, 12 hour shifts. Varies not to exceed 50 hours in any single week. Period of Performance: this is a new contract that is 1 plus 4 additional years
DUTIES: 1. Provide acute and chronic pain related specialty care with the cognizance or supervision of a physician.
- Responsible for a regularly appointed clinic, compatible with workload and, in addition, provide immediate evaluation and management of emergent problems as they occur. Shall have the capability to:
- Collect and record, in proper format, medical and social historical data appropriate to the patient’s condition.
- Perform a general physical examination and/or a pain focused examination.
- Responsible for examination of patients and formulation of differential diagnostic plans. Define and order required diagnostic testing.
- Interpret exam findings and test results, and implementation of treatment plans.
- 7 . Direct the care provided by nurses and technicians in the clinic; and admits inpatients per local MTF instructions.
- 8 . Recognize those more complicated cases, initiate treatment (if appropriate), and refer to a higher level of medical expertise for diagnosis and/or treatment.
- Plan and initiate proper treatment within defined privileges and the scope of practice of the facility.
- Clearly communicate to other health personnel either orally or in writing the findings, diagnosis, and planned treatment regimen.
- Stabilize and manage a patient in a medical or surgical emergency and/or transfer to physician care.
- 12 . Maintain inpatient and outpatient medical records in accordance with MTF procedures.
- Perform simple injections and other invasive procedures as directed by the supervising physician.
- Act as a subspecialist consultant to other departments. This includes entering physical profiles, providing recommendations for medical evaluation boards and assisting with fitness for duty evaluations.
- Perform other clinic related duties as required by supervising physicians or unit leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Be a graduate Physician Assistant or Anesthesiologist Assistant qualified by academic and practical education to provide patient services as a physician extender under supervision of a physician anesthesiologist.
- Be a graduate of a Physician Assistant Training Program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), or its predecessors, and acceptable to the Surgeon General, USAF; or a graduate of an Anesthesiologist Assistant Training Program accredited by the National Commission for Certification of Anesthesiologist Assistants (NCCAA).
- Certification as a Physician Assistant by the National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or Certification as an Anesthesiologist Assistant.
4.Must have at least 24 months of experience within the last 36 months as a Physician Assistant in a multi-modal (medical and interventional) chronic pain treatment clinic or as an Anesthesiologist Assistant.
- BLS and ACLS certification must be obtained through the American Heart Association and/or Red Cross approved training program. All certifications require proof a cognitive and skills (hands-on) training/assessment was conducted
Job Type: Full-time
Required experience:
- 2 years experience
