Physician Internal Medicine in Fort Hood, Texas at Vighter Management Group Llc
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Job Description
Title: Physician (Internal Medicine)
Location: Fort Hood, TX
Position Type: Full time (30-40+ hours/week), 1099
FLSA Status: Exempt
Education Level: MD or DO
Job Category: Healthcare
Our Company Promise
We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture’s 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Personability
- Transparency
- Responsiveness
Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.
Summary:
Vighter is recruiting an Internal Medicine Physician to serve at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at and around Fort Hood, TX. This role delivers patient-centered, evidence-based care while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations, and Vighter clinical policies. The physician functions as a key member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, supporting quality care delivery, clinical documentation, and continuity of care in a secure and highly regulated setting.
Vighter is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which provides professional healthcare staffing services to Federal, State, and Local government clients. The company is quality focused and registered ISO 9001:2015 and accredited by The Joint Commission in Healthcare Staffing Services.
Principle Accountabilities:
- Provide medical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care for adult patients.
- Performs diagnosis and treatment of the more complex internal medicine problems referred.
- Apply advanced professional knowledge of areas within the field of internal medicine to include, but not limited to, hematology, cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, endocrinology, pulmonary medicine, infectious disease, and nephrology.
- May serve as attending physician of the inpatient consult service by providing advice on perioperative management and management of other acute medical problems. Provide high-quality standards of care as mandated by the Joint Commission and appropriate DHA, CRDAMC, and local regulations and policies.
- Interacts with emergency department, clinics, other hospitals, and other specialty services to facilitate the transfer of patients into and out of the ward and observation units.
- Performs and interprets medical procedures to include, but not limited to, thoracentesis, central venous line placement, arterial blood gas sampling, paracentesis, nasogastric and feeding tube placement, joint aspiration and injection, graded exercise testing and lumbar puncture and interprets procedures such as electrocardiograms and pulmonary function tests.
- May be used as hybrid physician with both inpatient and outpatient duties, as determined by Department Chief.
- Exchange advice and consultation with other physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the area of Internal Medicine.
- Performs procedures to include, but not limited to, joint aspiration or injections, sigmoidoscopies, gastroscopies, proctoscopies.
- Refers patients to other specialty clinics for further evaluation on outpatient and/or inpatient basis.
- Perform ambulatory and acute care for patients as well as long term chronic and difficult patients.
- Order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays necessary to complete medical facts to include, but not limited to, blood counts, urinalysis, sedimentation rates, chest x-rays, and electrocardiograms.
- An unshakeable adherence to quality and continuous process improvement.
- An apolitical, patient-centered focus that drives to enhanced care and patient satisfaction
- Knowledge of regulations (HIPAA/Privacy Act) regarding the confidentiality of patient medical records and information as well as Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
- Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Must have exceptional customer service skills.
- Employees shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the job requirements, including ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment with limited supervision
- Excellent organizational, scheduling and prioritization skills.
Education:
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) from an accredited medical school.
- Active, unrestricted medical license in the state of practice.
- Graduation from a medical school in the United States, Canada, or approved by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education of the American Medical Association (AMA), graduation from a college of osteopathy approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or graduation from a medical school with evidence of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification as identified in the base contract
Qualifications:
- Shall possess a minimum of two (2) years of post-residency clinical experience within the last three (3) years providing direct patient care in internal medicine. Experience must demonstrate recent hands-on proficiency in evaluating, diagnosing, and managing adult patients across a broad spectrum of acute and chronic medical conditions in accordance with current clinical standards of practice.
- Background shall reflect competency in both outpatient and inpatient internal medicine settings, including development of treatment plans, coordination of care, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
- Board eligible or board certified.
- Current BLS certification (ACLS preferred).
Duty Hours / On-call Requirements
- Work schedules for all labor categories will range between the hours of 0530 and 2230, Sunday through Saturday, and may include days, evening, nights, weekends, training holidays, and Federal holidays. Hereinafter training and Federal holidays will be referred to as "all holidays." Shifts may be scheduled for up to 16-hour periods but will normally be scheduled for up to 12-hour periods.
Work Environment
- Location: Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and Community and Outlying Medical Treatment Facilities.
- Supportive team of healthcare professionals and administrative staff.
Travel:
- As required to satisfy the contractual obligations. Commuting is non-compensatory. All official travel is government funded.
Benefits
- 1099, weekly or monthly pay.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to stand or sit for more than 8 hours per day.
- Must be able to use an elevator or walk up & down stairs.
- Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds and carry up to 10 feet.
- Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders.
- Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print.
- Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear.
- Must be able to perform duties in an indoor office or outdoor environment.
- Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation.
- Must undergo Urine Drug Screening (UDS).
- Must be a Citizen of the United States or legally authorized to work in the United States of America.
Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
In accordance with recent Executive Orders (EO 14151, EO 14168 and EO 14173,) Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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