Physician Assistant (DOM - Infectious Disease)

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 152,900; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Physician Assistant to provide specialized clinical care and harm reduction services via a mobile van and in non-traditional settings. The role focuses on opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and HIV, with PrEP and wound/ STI care as needed.

Medical care includes history, exams, problem assessment, and management. The provider will work with BCHD outreach, supervise trainees, and participate in research while maintaining licensure and compliance with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and completion of a CAAHEP-certified Physician Assistant program.
• Certification by the NCCPA.
• Licensed as a PA in Maryland or another state.
• Current CPR certification.
• Three years of related clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Examine and document new and returning patients, including medical history, exams, orders, and test results.
• Implement treatment protocols, monitor adverse effects, and adjust care as needed.
• Complete forms for insurance, vocational rehab, social services, and patient records.
• Provide consultations, referrals, and arrange hospitalizations when appropriate.
• Participate in research and supervise students and physicians-in-training.
• Counsel patients on disease information, prevention, follow-up care, and contraception.
• Perform related tasks and provide Emergency Services as required.
• Collaborate with BCHD outreach to identify and re-engage patients.

Skills

CPR certification

Clinical experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

CAAHEP-certified Physician Assistant program

NCCPA certification

Job description

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

We are seeking a Physician Assistant who will provide specialized clinical care and harm reduction services primarily for people who use drugs (PWUD) in a mobile, integrated care van called Healthcare on The Spot. The provider's scope of service will include managing patients living with opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and HIV, providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV, wound care, and sexually transmitted infections. Though the majority of clinical time will be spent on the mobile van, the provider may provide clinical services in other non-traditional settings like drop-in centers or alongside outreach teams, meeting people where they are in the community. Medical care will include obtaining a medical history, performing appropriate physical examinations, assessing patients' problems, and resolving identified problems by appropriate medical management.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Provider examines and evaluates all new and returning patients and documents findings. This is to include, as needed: medical history, physical examination, written orders for medications, diagnostic tests, and review of results of bacteriologic and laboratory examinations.
• Implements protocols for treatment, monitoring adverse effects, and recognizing that the condition of individual patients may occasionally require a medical decision to alter certain aspects of these protocols.
• Completes all forms requiring the attention of a clinician, i.e., insurance, vocational rehabilitation, social services, automated information management input documents, and abstract patient records as required.
• Provides consultations, makes patient referrals, and arranges general hospitalization with appropriate medical care providers. Participates in in-service training and supervises clinical training of approved students and physicians-in-training.
• Participates in research activities authorized by JHU and BCHD.
• Counsels patients, providing disease information about treatment, prevention, follow-up care, sex partner referral, and contraception as appropriate.
• Performs related tasks as assigned.
• Provides Emergency Services to the Department as needed.
• Works with BCHD outreach and Disease Intervention Specialists to identify, locate,e and attempt to re-engage people who have been out of healthcare for HIV/HCV/STDs.
• Maintain a current and valid license in accordance with the respective governing board.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Certification by the NCCPA or similar national certifying body.
• Completion of a CAAHEP-certified Physician Assistant program.
• Must be licensed as a PA in the State of Maryland or another state where practicing. Current CPR certification.
• Three years of experience in a related clinical area and obtained proficiency in the area of specialty.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Classified Title: Physician Assistant
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG
Starting Salary Range: $100,000 - $152,900 Annually ($110,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Mon-Friday 8:30am-5pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM DOM ID BCHD
Personnel area: School of Medicine

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

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The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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