Critical Care/Intensivist Physician - San Diego, United States - Professional Performance Development Group, Inc

Description

• Graduate from an accredited medical school in the United States or Canada. This degree must have been accredited by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association; the Association of American Medical Colleges; the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association, or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.).

• 3 years experience within the last (5) years of adult critical care in a high acuity setting or at least 3 years, experience within the past (5) years of adult Tele-Critical Care experience.

• Provide virtual comprehensive nursing care monitoring and consultation to on-site medical staff caring for acute and/or chronically ill adults to geriatric patient populations with complex and critical medical-surgical conditions while meeting established standards of care and delivering care within the principles of the Nursing Process.
• This position will support the enterprise-level Tele-Critical Care (TCC) program that provides on-demand critical care support to patients in both garrison and austere operational environments around the globe. NMC San Diego is the primary hub site for the enterprise-level TCC program. Care will be provided largely from the Joint Medical Operations Center (JMOC), and will require the use of both traditional virtual health (VH) tools and technologies (remote electronic health record access, far-end controllable patient-side camera systems, remote bio-physiologic monitoring systems), as well as next-generation VH modalities (such as holographic-enabled procedural tele-mentorship, tele-robotics, AI-guided evaluation and care, and new tools, technologies, and processes which have yet to be identified and/or invented). In order to support TCC, the incumbent must have practice and privileges in Critical Care Medicine, (Pulmonary Medicine not needed but preferred) this is a predominantly Critical Care position.
• As a board-certified specialist in Critical Care Medicine, the incumbent provides examination, diagnosis, and treatment services for patient that have medical problems characteristic of this specialty – including complex cases where the symptoms are difficult to identify, treatment regiments involving the use of prolonged or complicated procedures or new techniques, and/or where patient's condition is critical or fails to respond to previously-tried treatments. Serves as a consultant for medical officers in this discipline, and other specialties. Services include, but are not limited to, patient examination, determination of the need for laboratory and radiology evaluations, interpretations of complex tests and examination findings, sequential and skillful interpretation of diagnostic findings and application of that information towards multistep treatment plans, consideration of the necessity for additional referrals and consultations.
• Follows progress of case and modify course of treatment as necessary to achieve the desired outcome. Prepares appropriate documentation for all cases. Serves as a specialist in Critical Care Medicine, and Tele-Critical Care Medicine
• Performs medical and surgical procedures compatible with the medical facility's operating capacity and equipment. The physician shall not introduce new medical procedures or services without prior coordination with the approval of the Director of Tele-Care Critical Unit.
• Reviews Summary of Care List within patient's record for relevance to current patient situations, make recommendations to primary provider and other subspecialists (as indicated). Provide input to set expectations, develop plans, and manage processes to assess, improve, and maintain the quality of the organization's governance, management, clinical, and support activities.
• Participate in a collaborative approach that incorporates external and internal customers that systematically plans, designs, measures, and assesses all processes to improve the performance of health care providers and the TCCU. Facilitates patient access to medical care by initiating appropriate referrals to other health care providers.