Physician- Genetics

FMOL Health; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

FMOL Health is seeking a Staff Physician in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This role involves providing comprehensive patient care both in the office and emergency settings, collaborating with other physicians, and participating in quality improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate must possess an MD and hold a current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License. Join us in our commitment to excellence in patient care and community health.

Qualifications

• Must have an MD degree.
• Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License required.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care in the office and other locations.
• Delivers emergency care on an on-call basis.
• Implements quality improvement programs.
• Collaborates with other physicians to ensure high quality care.
• Participates in educational programs and training.

Education

MD

Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License

Job description

Job Description

The Staff Physician provides direct patient care and emergency services in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times.

Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Provides direct patient care in the office and at other locations, develops treatment plans, and assesses patient’s response to treatment while ensuring that all health care services provided are of the highest quality.
• High quality emergency care on an on‑call basis and in rotation with other physicians to ensure patient health care needs are met at all times (Industrial Medical Center's Staff Physician does not provide on‑call services).
• Quality and Performance Improvement: Investigates new techniques, practices, and equipment in an effort to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
• Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multidisciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts. Assists in ensuring that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
• Ensures appropriate application of the hospital’s mission and philosophy and departmental and hospital policies and procedures in a manner that promotes the provision of high quality health care services and departmental effectiveness.
• Promotes the quality and efficiency of own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in the field of expertise through participation in job‑relevant seminars and workshops, attendance at professional conferences, and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
• Collaboration and Partnership: Collaborates with other physicians to ensure the provision of high quality medical care and technologically advanced health care services by the hospital.
• Participates in educational programs, in‑service meetings, and training sessions to share expertise and further the quality of education and personal growth provided to new personnel, volunteers, and interning students.
• Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

Experience, Education, Training, Special Skills, and Licensure:

• MD
• Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License

About Us

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

• An 988‑bed hospital and the area’s only Level I Trauma Center
• A freestanding Children’s Hospital
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
• Two free‑standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
• A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
• Assumption Community Hospital
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our‑Lady University
• Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a 78‑bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding areas

We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. A part of FMOL Health, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation.