# Gastroenterology Physician at iRecruitMD in San Francisco,…

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# Gastroenterology Physician

iRecruitMD 

** San Francisco, California, United States ** Full Time ** Healthcare Jobs ** United States 

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## Job Description

Description The Gastroenterologist provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients and performs related duties.

**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:**

- Provides primary, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician s medical specialty.
- Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary.
- Provides diagnosis and treats injuries, illnesses, and disorders
- Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients
- May hospitalize patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital.
- On rotational basis, serves as the on-call physician when the clinic is not open.
- Is able to work on Saturday clinic on a rotational basis.
- Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients
- Prescribes medications or therapies.
- Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner.
- Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient s families concerning treatment and care of patients.
- Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided.
- Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvements plans.
- Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies.
- Documents electronically with EHR system.
- Attends all medical staff meeting and participates in the community health center s Quality Assurance program.
- Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations
- Assists in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel.
- Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large.
- Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come for training.
- May provide supervision to mid level providers such as NP or PA.
- Full-time physicians are generally required to maintain hospital privileges, this may include coverage of the emergency room and inpatient services for patients if this is a requirement by the hospital to maintain hospital privileges.
- Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor.

Qualifications **QUALIFICATIONS:**

- Graduation from an accredited school of medicine.
- Licensed to practice medicine in the State of California.
- Ability to work as team with other health professionals and non-medical personnel.
- Board eligible or certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn or Emergency Medicine.
- If providing subspecialty or specialty services, be board eligible or certified to that specific specialty or fellowship.
- Current documentation of Basic Life Support is required.

**LANGUAGE:**

- Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English.
- Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) is required.
- Fluent in other languages is a plus.

**STATUS:**

This is an FLSA exempt position.
This is an OSHA high-risk position.

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