Physician
Location: Troy, VA
Shift hours: 8 am - 5 pm (Monday - Friday)
Position Type: Full-Time
Positions: 1
Pay rate: $135/hour
Company Overview: Our client is a leading provider of healthcare services within correctional facilities, committed to delivering high-quality medical care to underserved populations.
Position Summary: The successful candidate must be an MD with a valid Virginia license and be board eligible/certified in a specific specialty. The role involves providing comprehensive medical care, performing diagnostic procedures, prescribing treatments, and improving patient health and quality of life with a high level of independence.
Responsibilities:

• Examines, diagnoses, treats, counsels and prescribes medications for patients as needed.
• Provides physical examinations and other general services
• Records a summary in each patient's medical chart after each consultation.
• Makes referrals to medical or clinical specialists when necessary.
• Responsible for providing accurate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Responsible for the improvement of patient health and quality of life.
• Independently resolves daily medical issues.
• Ensure guidance is received on policy or exceptional situations.
• May provide medical supervision to other clinical staff.

Qualifications:

• Medical Doctor with a valid Virginia license
• Board eligible/certified in psychiatric, internal medicine, family practice, emergency medicine, or other similar medical/surgical specialty
• Graduation from an accredited medical school
• Considerable active medical treatment and management experience
• Skilled in technical and management aspects of health care quality improvement and performance management
• Experience working in a correctional medical setting preferred.
• Direct participation in quality improvement and quality assurance programming as the department head or private/group practice preferred

Necessary Attributes:

• Competent in evaluation, diagnostic, and treatment planning
• Competent in staff education and supervision
• Ability to manage individual quality improvement projects and a quality improvement/quality assurance enterprise
• Ability to translate project findings into sustainable practice using conventional health system approaches such as PDSA, Six Sigma, Lean, etc.
• Knowledge of conventional individual and health system performance metrics and their application.
• Skilled in communication, health care education, and working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to work cooperatively with the nursing department and the allied health professionals with the Healthcare Administrator.