Pediatrician- California

Description The Physician provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients at the clinic and performs related duties. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: - Provides primary, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician’s medical specialty. - Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary. - Provides diagnosis and treats injuries, illnesses, and disorders - Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients - May hospitalize patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital. - On rotational basis, serves as the on-call physician when the clinic is not open. - Is able to work on Saturday clinic on a rotational basis. - Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients - Prescribes medications or therapies. - Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner. - Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient’s families concerning treatment and care of patients. - Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided. - Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvements plans. - Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies. - Documents electronically with EHR system. - Attends all medical staff meeting and participates in the community health center’s Quality Assurance program. - Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations - Assists in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel. - Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large. - Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come for training. - May provide supervision to mid level providers such as NP or PA. - Full-time physicians are generally required to maintain hospital privileges, this may include coverage of the emergency room and inpatient services for patients if this is a requirement by the hospital to maintain hospital privileges. - Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor. Qualifications - Graduation from an accredited school of medicine. - Licensed to practice medicine in the State of California. - Ability to work as team with other health professionals and non-medical personnel. - Board eligible or certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn or Emergency Medicine. - If providing subspecialty or specialty services, be board eligible or certified to that specific specialty or fellowship. - Current documentation of Basic Life Support is required. LANGUAGE: - Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English. - Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) is preferred. - Fluent in other languages are an asset. Requirements Must maintain state certification and/or licensure.