Family Physician

Position Summary:

Provides comprehensive and continuing care to patients requiring routine and emergency treatment through

the diagnosis of disease processes and through the provision of medical treatment of patients at community

health centers, hospitals, nursing and private homes, schools, and shelters.

Job Responsibilities and Performance Standards:

 Oversees and provides direct medical care to patients.

 Demonstrates clinical competence and professional commitment in the Practice of Medicine by adhering to

established standards of practice and utilizing appropriate scientific principles.

 Refer patients to other providers as appropriate.

 Maintains appropriate medical records on assigned patients.

 Participates in patient care audits for quality assurance and utilization review to maintain and improve

patient care standard of excellence.

 Maintains medical professional standards and knowledge by regularly attending medical conferences,

seminars, continuing education programs, and the teaching medical residents, medical students and /or

practitioners or students in other health care professions.

 Serve on-call including as a backup clinician as assigned.

 Serves as member of related committees as requested/needed.

 Represents the health center with external authorities and the community as required.

 Performs other related duties as required by the position or as assigned.

 Become knowledgeable about the GLFHC Improvement plan and the model for improvement endorsed by

the organization.

 On a regular basis participate in ongoing quality improvement activities related to individual, team, and

organizational performance improvement.

 May be required to supervise nurse practitioners.

Job Description: Clinician Family Physician

February 2013

 Attend meetings and trainings as required by the CMO.

 Travel between sites may be required.

 Performs all and any additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Experience

 Residency completion in good standing.

Education

 Board certification or eligibility in an appropriate specialty and a current medical license in Massachusetts.

Social/Psychological Conditions

 Frequent home and social life inconvenience, even though predictable on most occasions.

 Regular volume of work and deadlines impose a strain on a routine basis, or work location imposes frequent

unwelcome interruptions.

Physical Effort

 Exposure to a variety of unpleasant physical working conditions, frequent exposure to occupational or

contagious disease hazards which require routine precautions.

 Requires light physical effort on a regular basis, as in frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping or

reaching and/or occasional lifting of light items (i.e. up to 20 lbs.).

 Periodic eye or ear strain included in this level (less than 50% of the time)

 Must be able to utilize appropriate instruments and equipment as required for performance of job

responsibilities.

 Must be able to sit, stand, and walk at reasonable intervals or for extended periods of time.*Must be able to

keep up in a fast paced, high volume clinical environment.