Primary Care Physician

GENEROUS BENEFITS PACKAGE! Position Summary: Responsible for performing professional primary care physician services. Establishes and maintains relationships with patients; participates in a call schedule; provides outstanding customer service Job Requirement Education/Experience: Graduation from an accredited school of medicine in the area of family medicine/primary care, pediatrics or internal medicine. Licensing/Certification Requirements: Valid License by State of Nevada to practice medicine. State of Nevada Pharmacy Board License to Prescribe Medications and DEA Controlled Substance Registration Certificate. Some positions may require one or more of the following certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) from the American Heart Association (AHA). Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Physical Requirements Knowledge of: Principles and practices of medical care; adult and pediatric care, equipment, supplies and practices; infectious diseases and infection control practices; federal, state, local and accreditation laws, regulations, standards and trends in the field of medicine; related outside agencies, their services, roles and responsibilities to contact them to appropriate needed information for patient referrals; quality assurance and performance improvement principles and methods; peer review process; department and hospital safety practices and procedures; patient rights; infection control policies and procedures; handling, storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials; department and hospital emergency response policies and procedures; age specific patient care practices. Skill in: Effective provision of medical care; assessing and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of medical care provided through the use of hospital QI program; ensuring that services are appropriate for meeting patient's medical, social and emotional needs, consistent with sound health care resource allocation practices; developing goals, objectives, policies and procedures; applying leadership techniques; multi-tasking and making effective decisions under stress and emergency circumstances; developing care plans; effective verbal and written communication as well as effective listening; solving problems; using computers and related software applications; communicating with a wide variety people from diverse socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds; establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all personnel contacted in the course of duties; efficient, effective and safe use of equipment. Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: Mobility to work in a typical office setting and use standard equipment, stamina to remain seated and maintain concentration for extended periods of time; vision to read printed materials and a VDT screen; hearing and speech to communicate effectively in-person and over the telephone. Strength and agility to exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this classification. MPUMCLV University Medical Center of Southern Nevada offers a benefits package that leads the market and includes: Employer Paid Pension Plan totaling 29.25% of your annual salary! Vestment in the pension plan after 5 years of qualifying employment! Consolidated Annual Leave (CAL) - CAL is used for personal leave, holidays (eleven scheduled holidays per year), doctor appointments, vacation, and sick days up to 16 consecutive scheduled work hours (short term sick leave), etc. Eligible employees shall accrue CAL at the following rates. Part-time accrual is based on the number of paid benefit hours. Length of Service Rate of Accrual per 80 hours worked Days per year (based on 8-hour day) 0 – 12 months 0-90 days > 3.077 hours* *Upon completion of the 90th day of employment, the employee's CAL bank will be credited with an additional 12 hours. 91 days – 12 months > 5.2769 hours** **Upon completion of the twelfth month of employment the employee's CAL bank will be credited with an additional 80 hours. 27 days 13 months – 48 months 8.3077 hours 27 days Credit Union Eligibility 457 Deferred Compensation Plan Comprehensive Group Health Insurance Plan Nevada has no State Income Tax No Social Security Deduction UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER 01 Have you been previously denied participation in any managed care organizations? Yes No

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