Infectious Disease Physician

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic; Sugar Land (TX); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Texas is seeking an Infectious Disease Physician to provide consultation for infectious disease patients in both outpatient and hospital settings. The role involves ensuring effective care delivery, managing patient transitions, and offering virtual consultation options. Required qualifications include the American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. This position also emphasizes a supportive environment for clinicians, ensuring autonomy in practice while being part of a national healthcare system.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a consultant to other physicians for patients with infectious diseases.
• Accountable for effective delivery of care while meeting compliance standards.
• Responsibility for Infectious Disease diagnosis and treatment in outpatient setting.

Education

American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

Job description

Position Highlights and Responsibilities:

• The Infectious Disease Physician serves as a consultant to other physicians for patients with infectious diseases in an outpatient and/or hospital setting.
• The Infectious Disease is expert in history taking, physical examination, test interpretation, patient counseling and differential diagnosis and medical therapeutics.
• Accountable to the Associate Medical Specialty Director, for assuring the most effective delivery of care while meeting and exceeding compliance standards.
• The physician will have responsibility and decision- making for the overall conduct of Infectious Disease diagnosis and treatment of patient related issues in the outpatient setting.
• Supervision and management (where appropriate) of patients transitioning from hospital to out-patient care
• Initiation and Supervision of home IV therapies.
• Antibiotic stewardship in conjunction with P&T committee
• Continuity outpatient clinics
• Virtual health as pertains to Infectious Diseases
• Availability for telephone and E-consults during regular business hours
• Virtual visits
• Telephone consults
• Virtual consults
• Video curbside consults
• Indirect patient care: returning telephone calls, responding to patient emails, reviewing and renewing prescriptions, reviewing laboratory and imaging data, communicating results to patients, and implementing improved quality in systems delivery.
• Supervision of ID purchased services
• Education of clinical staff regarding infectious disease diagnosis and treatment
• Liaison with Wound Care
• Liaison with Medical Director of Hospital Services
• Regular meetings with Associate Medical Directors
• Office hours to meet demand- time and location to be determined

What makes an Optum Career different?

• Be part of a best-in-class employee experience that enables you to practice at the top of your license
• We believe that better care for clinicians equates to better care for patients
• We are influencing change collectively on a national scale while still maintaining the culture and community of our local care organizations
• Practice medicine autonomously, with the support, not restrictions, of a sustainable and thriving national health care organization

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics