Duties and Responsibilities:
Personal-Team-Organization
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Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical histories, reports, and examination results.
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Conducting physical examinations.
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Order and interpret the results of laboratory, x-ray and other tests.
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Perform routine office based obstetric and gynecological procedures including colposcopy and endometrial biopsies, etc.
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Determine and implement appropriate courses of treatment.
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Provide treatment plans and prescribe medications for issues/diseases of the female organs.
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Provide care and treatment during prenatal and postnatal periods.
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Monitor results of treatment; changing as necessary.
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Maintain accurate, complete records that comply with contracts and/or St. John’s Well Child & Family Center policies.
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Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
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Confer with professional and support staff regarding care and treatment of patients and assists/mentors them in management of illness; serves as a resource to resolve patient/family concerns.
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Monitor and ensures compliance with clinical evidence-based guidelines for adult and pediatric health care.
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Having the ability to develop positive rapport with patients and families to foster the physician/patient relationship.
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Perform related duties as required.
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Immunize patients from communicable diseases.
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Advise patients concerning diet, hygiene, and methods for prevention of disease.
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Refer patients to medical specialist or other practitioner for specialized treatment.
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Provider goals: sees minimum of twenty-five patients per day subject to clinic goals
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Providers schedule: works twenty-six Saturday’s per year to provide coverage and subject to clinic goals and some evenings
Provider Competencies – Specificity
- Analytical – Synthesizes complex or diverse information; collects and researches data.
- Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner.
- Technical Skills – Assesses own strengths and weaknesses.
- Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; responds promptly t customer needs; solicits
customer feedback to improve service; responds to requests for service and assistance.
- Oral Communication – Responds well to questions; participates in meetings.
- Written Communication – Writes clearly and informatively.
- Ethics – Treats people with respect; upholds organizational values.
- Qualifications – To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportion to practical situations.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to define problems collects data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram from and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may e made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Social Medicine Core Competencies
Social Medicine fosters the understanding and skills required to care for patients and address the living and working conditions that affect health of communities. These core competencies are an innovative work-in-progress and are being developed in response to the needs and characteristics of the residents and communities served by St. John’ Well Child and Family Centers. These social medicine core competencies were developed in consultation with St. John’s providers and community health promoters, South Los Angeles community partners, and social medicine academic experts. Core competencies of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education and the American Public Health Association informed the development of these competencies.