Full-Time Physician Assistant- Internal Medicine
Job Description
PPDG is currently interviewing full-time Physician Assistants with Internal Medicine or Cardiology experience to provide medical services to our “Nation’s Finest” Soldiers and family members at Lackland AFB in San Antonio, TX.
Professional Performance Development Group, Inc. (PPDG) is a government services contractor located in San Antonio, TX. We are a “Vendor of Choice” within the Federal Government and have provided medical services through our employees at major military medical centers across the country for over 32 years.
Qualifications:
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, is mandatory.
A current National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) certification.
Have at least 24 months of experience as a Physician Assistant within the last 36 months working in Cardiology or Internal Medicine.
Maintained an active license corresponding to a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) registration number.
Possess and maintain current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) through the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
Type of work the duties include but are not limited to the following:
*May become the primary care manager for a panel of patients. As a PCM, will be the primary person responsible for the management of the health and wellness of assigned patients. Duties include:
· Examination of patients, formulation differential diagnostic plans, defines and orders required diagnostic testing.
· Interpretation of examination findings and test results, and implementation of treatment plans.
· Determines need for consultation and assists in medical care and treatment provided at the direction of other specialists.
· Approving/disapproving sub-specialty referrals.
· Answering patient telephone consults with the assistance of clinic staff.
· Providing primary and secondary preventive maintenance care.
· Admit inpatients as per the local MTF instructions.
*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.
*Identify and report those situations and individual cases which have public health significance
and carry out effective control measures.
