Physician Assistant

The Department of Medicine is seeking a Physician Assistant to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team at the Beacham Center for Geriatric Medicine to optimize team performance and patient outcomes. The Physician Assistant is responsible for providing comprehensive and age-appropriate care to both well and ill patients. The Physician Assistant provides primary and urgent care, educates patients and intervenes in acute or chronic illness.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Uses advanced clinical and theoretical knowledge to identify acute and/or chronic health problems through a comprehensive, age-appropriate assessment of patients/families.
• Provides evidence-based primary and urgent care and provides patient education for self-care chronic disease management.
• Effectively uses resources.
• Prioritizes and organizes work to meet the changing priorities of the functional unit and/or cost center.
• Authority for coordinating and making decisions regarding patient care.
• Triages phone calls and electronic advice requests from patients and determines need for medical assessment.
• Assesses lab results and implements intervention in consultation with primary providers and medical director.
• Provides guidance and direction to other unit staff where applicable to promote quality, safety, and excellence in care.
• Analyzes findings and applies, as appropriate, to improve the management of patient care.
• Identifies care continuity needs of patients.
• Participates in quality improvement/patient safety projects.
• Supports providers in phone follow up, in-basket message management/triage, patient paperwork, Medicare annual wellness visits, and medication refills.
• Coordinates care for a group of primary complex patients to achieve clinical and organizational outcomes.
• Responsible for other clinical duties as assigned.

• Clinical skills in specialty area or equivalent.
• Successfully completes all training courses required for access to Epic and other clinical software systems.
• General computer knowledge and capability to use computer.
• Requires effective use of resources and cost awareness.
• Ability to incorporate into practice theoretical concepts and advanced clinical skills with patients, families, and interdisciplinary health care team members.
• Ability to analyze data to synthesize and summarize information and to make judgments regarding patient care.
• Analytical ability necessary to diagnose patients and to develop and implement plans of action for long and short-term management of acute and chronic health.
• Ability to apply principles of evidence-based practice, scientific process, and service excellence in practice.
• Ability to interact successfully with the public. Ability to perform effectively despite sudden deadlines and changing priorities. Ability to maintain personal composure in high stress situations.
• Interdisciplinary health care team to enhance collaboration and problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to provide information to patients and health care personnel.
• Ability to demonstrate and convey a favorable image of the organization and to conform to proper standards of professional dress, attitude and demeanor.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills required to interact with patients, patients' families/visitors and clinical staff.
• Ability to perform with a high degree of accuracy and with meticulous attention to detail.
• Demonstrate a strong ability to use initiative and judgment and to identify, analyze and solve problems.
• Ability to demonstrate self-direction and initiation.
• Ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Able to operate patient care equipment, computers, and general office equipment.

• Bachelor's Degree;
  Certification by the NCCPA or similar national certifying body;
  Completion of a CAAHEP certified Physician Assistant program. Must be licensed as PA in State of Maryland.
• Experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
• Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross CPR certification.

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