Full Job Description
Job Summary: The Physician Assistant will support the doctors’ work and actively facilitate patients’ recovery. You will apply medical techniques and principles under the direction of a physician and you will deal with a diverse set of patients offering them care and encouragement.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Provide healthcare services under supervision of a physician.
- Examine patients and record their medical histories.
- Conduct physicals and treat minor injuries (sutures, splints, etc)
- Order diagnostic tests, interpret results and diagnose medical conditions.
- Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.
- Monitor responses to treatments and counsel patients.
- Assess patients’ health and their demands and aim to fulfill them as well as possible.
- Issue appropriate prescriptions and administer medicine.
- Inform physicians about any problems or discrepancies that might arise.
- Acquire and review patient histories identifying abnormal conditions.
- Monitor patients’ progress and keep records of treatments, surgeries or other medical events.
- Prepare patients for examinations and conduct routine procedures (measure blood pressure and temperature, administer injections etc)
- Provide therapeutic treatments (disinfecting wounds, stitching etc.)
- Collaborate effectively with team members of various specializations.
- Attend to emergencies.
All Specialties: (Accepting new grads for all specialties except Dermatology and Pain Management)
Dermatology
Cardiology
House Calls (with a driver)
Neurology
Pumlanology
Nephrology
Primary Care Providers
Urgent Care
ENT
Ortho
Pain Management
Qualifications
Job Requirements:
- Master’s Degree required
- Active New York license as a Physician Assistant
- Currently New York Controlled Substance and Drug Enforcement Registration
- Master’s degree
- Graduate of an approved PA Program and a post-graduate training program in surgery or at least one-year equivalent work experience
- Current Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- Emergency Medicine / Family Practice/Acute Care
- DOT, BLS, ACLS Preferred
- Bilingual a plus – Spanish
- Proven work experience as a physician assistant or nurse
- Knowledge of EMR Systems preferred
Salary: $120,000-$150,000
Equal Opportunity Employer
Pay: $120,000.00 – $150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
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