Primary Care Physician - Hearing and Balance

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

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Baton Rouge is seeking a Primary Care Physician specializing in Hearing and Balance. The role involves providing direct patient care, ensuring high-quality emergency services, and participating in quality improvement initiatives. Candidates must possess an MD degree and a current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License. Join a team dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare services to the community.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree required.
• Must hold a current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care and develops treatment plans.
• Ensures high quality emergency care and on-call services.
• Participates in quality improvement programs.

Education

MD

Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License

Job description

Primary Care Physician - Hearing and Balance

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

• 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.
• Provides high quality emergency care to patients on an on-call basis and in rotation with other physicians in an effort to ensure that 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 multi-disciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts. Assists in ensuring that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
• Ensures the 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 his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in field of expertise through participation in job-relevant seminars and workshops, attendance at professional conferences, and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
• Collaborates with other physicians in order 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 in an effort to share his/her own expertise with others 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
• Job Identification 45286
• Job Category Clinical_Care
• Job Shift Day
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Requisition Schedule Full-Time
• Hours of Schedule (e.g. M-F 8a-5p) M-F
• Department Adult Otolaryngology-OLOL Hearing and Balance-Lake Hospital
• FMOLHS Company Code Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc