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Physician Assistant - Hampton, VA
Orlando, Florida, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician Assistant
Specialty
Family Practice/Primary Care
Degree Required
MPAS/MHS/MMSc/MPH
Position Type
Permanent/Full-Time
Locums/Travel
Part-Time/Contract
Work Environment
Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC)
Academic/Training Program
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Hampton, Virginia, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
1/25/18
Loyal Source Government Services is currently hiring a Family Practice experienced Physician Assistant for Langley Air Force Base located in Hampton, VA to work as a civilian contractor.
Contact Justin LaMacchia at [Register to View]
or 407-[Register to View]
to discuss your qualifications.
This opportunity offers excellent stability, great compensation and a great work environment serving a patient population of Service members and their families.
Qualifications:
• Be a graduate Physician Assistant qualified by academic and practical education to provide patient services as a physician extender under supervision of a physician.
• Be a graduate of a Physician Assistant Training Program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), or its predecessors, and acceptable to the Surgeon General, USAF, is mandatory.
• Certification as a Physician Assistant by the National Committee on Certification Physician Assistants (NCCPA) is required.
• Have at least 24 months of experience as a Physician Assistant in a Family Practice clinical setting within the last 36 months
Scope of Work:
• Provides primary or specialty medical care with the cognizance or supervision of a physician.
• Perform a general physical examination.
• May become the primary care manager for a panel of patients. As a PCM, will be the primary person responsible for the management of the health and wellness of assigned patients. Duties include:
• Examination of patients, formulation differential diagnostic plans, defines and orders required diagnostic testing.
• Interpretation of examination findings and test results, and implementation of treatment plans.
• Approving/disapproving subspecialty referrals.
• Providing primary and secondary preventive maintenance care.
• Admit inpatients as per the local MTF instructions.
• Recognize those more complicated cases, initiate treatment (if appropriate), and refer to a higher level of medical expertise for diagnosis and/or treatment.
• Identify and report those situations and individual cases which have public health significance and carry out effective control measures.
• Stabilize and manage a patient in a medical or surgical emergency and/or transfer to physician care.
• Determine appropriate means of evacuation of emergency patients, prepare patients for evacuation, and arrange for evacuation support.
• Perform the following blocks: Digital, Local Infiltration, and Intercostal
• Perform urological procedures.
If you are not interested in this location, please let us know what opportunities you would be interested in as we get new positions daily. Feel free to forward this to anyone who may be interested in working with the military or the VA as a contracted civilian.
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