NEEDED: Physician (MD / DO)
LOCATION: Fort Worth, TX 76114
SCHEDULE: 680 hours per year, 120 workdays, 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must possess knowledge, skills, abilities, and a current, valid license to practice medicine in the state of Texas.
- Serious applicants must submit a current CV, photocopies of documents evidencing education, license, certification and training.
JOB DUTIES:
- Responsible for providing in-house medical care for the inmate population.
- Will perform complete physical examinations, collect comprehensive medical and social history to include a review of all body systems, perform physical assessment in correlation with historical findings, record preliminary objective findings, examine and order appropriate diagnostic testing and provide necessary treatment and/or medications as required.
- Refer selected cases to consultant specialists when necessary and refer inmates requiring hospitalization to a community hospital and to an appropriate admitting physician.
- All duties shall be performed in accordance with standards and methods generally accepted within the field of medicine, and in compliance with all Federal and State policy and regulations.
- Detailed medical record documentation must be maintained.
- Document accurately and thoroughly in the electronic medical record and will have all documentation completed by the end of the workday.
- Any recommendations for further diagnostic testing and/or treatment will be made in the appropriate section of the electronic record, pending review by the Utilization Review committee.
