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Gastroenterology Physician

Employer
Staffing Etc
Location
Newport News, Virginia
Posted Date
Mar 22, 2017
Reference
Gastro

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Specialty
Gastroenterology
Position Type
Permanent

Exciting opportunity for Board Certified Gastroenterologist to work with soldiers at Military Treatment Center in the Newport News, Virginia area. Great hours and competitive pay available. 

Job duties include:

  • Providing outpatient gastroenterology (GI) consultations and procedures, including conscious sedation, flexible sigmoidoscopies, esophagogastroduodenoscopies, and colonoscopies in a GI department providing specialty services.
  • Managing the medical care of patients from the ages of young adult through geriatrics. Provide a full range of outpatient gastroenterology services within the scope of privileging by the MTF. Request diagnostic tests for each patient as needed, and provide indicated treatment for each complaint.
  • Providing medical care, in complex or distress cases, summon the appropriate specialist when deemed necessary, and continue medical management as necessary. Prescribe medications as indicated by the diagnosis and medical condition, and provide follow-up care as required.
  • Referring stable patients to specialty clinics by consultation within the guidelines of the MTF as required. Provide consultation services for the MTF clinics and patients when needed via telephone or in person.
  • Making decisions and dispositions and record on the appropriate form as to whether to send the patient home, to full duty, to quarters, or refer the patient to a consultant. Provide the patient with complete and appropriate instructions regarding medication, limitations, and follow-up plans.
  • Providing and documenting medical advice to patients by telephone as appropriate and in accordance with the MTF protocol. Provide pathology and laboratory results per clinic policy.

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