PHYSICIAN - MSHP

3000 Montefiore Medical Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 128,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Montefiore Health System seeks a School Health Physician to deliver comprehensive pediatric/adolescent primary care within school-based health centers. The role emphasizes autonomy in clinical decisions and close collaboration with school personnel to support student health and wellbeing.

Responsibilities include direct patient care, clinic operations, quality improvement, and engagement with families, teachers, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure equitable access to care.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical program.
• Residency in Pediatrics or Family Medicine.
• New York State Medical License with up-to-date registration.
• Current, valid Federal DEA license.

Responsibilities

• Direct Clinical Care: provide comprehensive primary care to pediatric/adolescent patients.
• Clinic Operations & Efficiency: partner with site administration to improve workflow.
• Quality Improvement: participate in program-wide QI initiatives with monthly analyses.
• Service Access & Patient Outreach: design activities to engage students needing care.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: coordinate with multi-disciplinary clinical teams to ensure comprehensive care.
• Stakeholder Relations: maintain communication with parents/guardians and school staff.
• Emergency Response: balance routine care with emergency responses in the school setting.
• Professional Engagement: attend meetings and communicate health center needs to supervisors.

Skills

Pediatrics

Family Medicine

Clinical Care

EHR Proficiency

Quality Improvement

Team Collaboration

Education

MD/DO

Tools

EHR Systems

Job description

City/State: Bronx, New York

Grant Funded: No

Department: MMG - School Health Primary Care

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: MON-FRI

Scheduled Hours: 8 AM-4 PM

Scheduled Daily Hours: 8 HOURS

Pay Range: $128,000.00-$160,000.00

Physician MSHP – Montefiore School Health Program

The School Health Physician for the School Health Program is a vital clinical role within the Montefiore Health System, dedicated to delivering comprehensive, high-quality primary care services directly within the communities we serve. Operating within school-based health centers, this position provides essential clinical assessments, evaluations, management, and treatment to a pediatric and adolescent patient population. The successful candidate will ensure seamless compliance with all institutional standards, MSHP protocols, and national clinical best practice guidelines, while strictly adhering to Joint Commission standards as applied to school health centers. This role requires a standardized degree of clinical independence, exceptional collaboration with school personnel, a dedication to quality improvement initiatives, and a steadfast commitment to expanding community outreach and equitable healthcare access.

Responsibilities

• Direct Clinical Care: Provide comprehensive clinical primary care services, serving as a specialist in the assessment, evaluation, management, and treatment of pediatric and adolescent patients to meet quality and performance standards.
• Clinic Operations & Efficiency: Collaborate with site administration to assess and increase clinic efficiency and productivity, offering unique physician insights to optimize daily health center operations and process flow.
• Quality Improvement: Actively participate in program-wide Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives, providing monthly analyses of priority QI projects at the assigned site and supporting effective implementation.
• Service Access & Patient Outreach: Design and implement targeted service access activities to identify and engage students who need care, tracking and meeting set monthly benchmarks for increased patient access.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate seamlessly with multi-disciplinary clinical teams (Senior Clerks, LPNs, RNs, Psychologists, Social Workers, Dentists, and Optometrists) to ensure patients have comprehensive access to care.
• Stakeholder Relations: Proactively pursue and maintain communication with parents and guardians for appropriate clinical input and consent, while building strong collaborative relationships with school staff, teachers, and leadership.
• Emergency Response: Balance routine health center flow (scheduled appointments, walk-ins, and low-acuity care) with occasional requests from the school to respond to patient emergencies within the school building.
• Professional Engagement: Maintain weekly communication with supervisors regarding health center needs and site interventions, while attending required departmental meetings to support program building.

Requirements

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical program required.
• Successful completion of an accredited residency program in Pediatrics or Family Medicine.
• Valid, unrestricted New York State Medical License with up-to-date registration.
• Current, valid Federal DEA license.
• Clinical Expertise: Deep knowledge of best-practice, high-quality primary health care delivery tailored specifically to children and adolescents ages 3 to 20+.
• Specialized Competency: Demonstrated ability to provide counseling, prescriptions, and monitoring of reproductive health interventions in strict compliance with New York State laws and MSHP policies.
• System & Analytical Skills: Possess the organizational and analytical skills necessary to trouble shoot clinic processes, make actionable improvement recommendations, and maintain proficiency with clinical tracking and electronic health records.
• Standardized Judgment: Proven ability to function under standardized practices, exercising sound judgment with minimal daily instruction while collaborating effectively under the direction of the Medical Director.
• Physical & Environmental Requirements: Ability to perform light work, including sitting, standing, and walking dynamically within a school-based health center clinic environment. Must have the ability to lift or exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally.
• Shift Monday to Friday 0800A – 0400P

Additional Information

Montefiore Medical Center’s advancement in the healthcare industry is also yours. Take your career to the next level by joining our trek to become the world’s leading healthcare system.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Since its inception in 1884, Montefiore’s mission has been to heal, to teach, to discover and advance the health of the communities we serve. Montefiore's state-of-the-art facilities include the internationally-recognized Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and our Notable Centers of Excellence – Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation. Combined with a growing number of locations for primary and specialty care throughout the Bronx and Westchester County, Montefiore is the ideal organization to apply and hone your expertise.

An assortment of insurance products and discount programs through Voluntary Benefits.

To heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. To be a premier academic medical center that transforms health and enriches lives.