Emergency Room Physicians needed
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Emergency Medicine Department, Twenty-nine Palms, CA
Emergency Medicine Physicians needed for services at the Naval Hospital Twenty-nine Palms, CA, and/or, Area Branch Medical Clinics that are within 35-miles of the hospitals.
Physician, Emergency Medicine (Twenty-nine Palms)
STAFFING AND DUTY HOURS.
Emergency Medicine Physicians shall be on duty for 12-hour shifts, 7-days per week. The shifts occur between the hours 0700-1900 and 1900-0700. The Government will schedule these shifts 6 weeks in advance of required service.
QUALIFICATIONS
Be a citizen of the United States
Possess a Doctorate Degree in Medicine from an accredited college approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, a Doctorate Degree in Osteopathy from a college accredited by the American Osteopathic Association, or permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG),
Possess a current, valid, unrestricted license in one of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) with the completion of an emergency medicine residency. The physician must have experience in a hospital emergency medical department with a volume of no less than 2,500 visits per full-time physician per year. The physician must be capable of evaluation and treatment of all ages and conditions of patients (example pediatric and adult, gynecologic, obstetric, and trauma).
In addition to the certification for the American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Providers ; physicians must also maintain current certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
DUTIES The HCWs shall perform the general and specific duties for applicable labor categories as outlined in Sections C.9 and C.10 of the basic contract.
The Physicians shall be responsible for legibly documenting the medical treatment provided and procedures performed in the patients electronic or paper medical record. Additionally, the Physicians shall be responsible for initial assignment of medical coding classification systems (i.e. CPT, HCPCS, ICD) to the medical record documentation.
HCWs are required to attend 1 monthly meeting per year with review of the staff meeting minutes of the remaining eleven monthly meetings.
Maintain clinical competencies, proficiency skills, licensing, certifications, and credentialing documents in accordance with MTF policies.
Diagnose and prescribe treatment for patients who present to the Emergency Medicine Department with illness and/or injury that include the following:
- Emergency cardiopulmonary and traumatic resuscitation
- Abdominal and gastrointestinal disorders
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Cutaneous disorders
- Disorders related to the immune system
- Disorders caused by biological agents
- Disorders due to chemical and environmental agents
- Hematological disorders
- Hormonal, metabolic, and nutritional disorders
- Disorders of the head and neck
- Disorders primarily presented in infancy and childhood
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Nervous system disorders
- Psychobehavioral disorders
- Thoracic-respiratory disorders
- Urogenital disorders
- Administrative aspects of emergency medicine
- Prehospital or emergency medicine service care
The emergency medicine physician shall possess the skill to perform the following procedures:
- Anesthesia: intravenous (upper extremity), local, and regional
- Parenteral sedation or analgesia
- Anoscopy
- Arthrocentesis
- Bladder catheterization: suprapubic and transurethral
- Cannulation: artery and vein
- Cardiac defibrillation
- Cardiac massage closed
- Cardiac massage open
- Cardiac pacing: external, transthoracic, and transvenous
- Cardiorrhapy
- Cardioversion
- Central venous access via jugular, peripheral, subclavian, femoral, and cutdowns
- Placement of cervical traction tongs
- Cricothyrotomy
- Culdocentesis
- Delivery of newborn
- Electrocardiogram interpretation
- Endotracheal intubation: oral and nasal
- Esophageal obturator airway insertion
- Foreign body removal
- Fracture or dislocation reduction
- Fracture or dislocation immobilization
- Gastric lavage
- Heimlich maneuver
- Incision-drainage
- Intracardiac injection
- Laboratory studies and interpretation
- Laryngoscopy
- Lumbar puncture
- Nail trephination
- Nail removal
- Nasal cautery
- Nasal packing
- Nasogastric intubation
- Ocular tonometry
- Oxygen therapy
- Paracentesis
- Pericardiocentesis
- Pericardiotomy
- Peritoneal lavage
- Radiographic studies and interpretation
- Ventilators: manual and mechanical
- Senkstaken-Blakemore tube placement
- Skin grafting
- Slit lamp examination
- Spinal immobilization
- Swan Ganz catheter insertion/Central line placement
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracostomy tube drainage
- Thoracotomy
- Wound debridement and repair
- Wound dressing
Please forward CV to:
Charlene Sentelle Snapp
OMV Medical,Inc.
888.834.3085
charlene@omvmedical.com
OMV Medical is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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