Physician, Healthcare Consultant, Medical Doctor

Overview

Company Description By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

Why join Harvard University Central Administration? Harvard University's Central Administration (CADM) is a 5,000+ employee organization that supports the university's overall excellence by understanding and serving the needs of its schools, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and surrounding communities. Through dynamic and collaborative partnerships, CADM provides high-quality and efficient services to the schools to help them achieve their goals.

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) HUHS is the on-site multi-specialty medical practice and health administration for the Harvard community. It provides care to students, faculty, staff, eligible post-docs, retirees, and their dependents. HUHS also manages two university-owned health plans, HUGUP (for faculty and staff) and SHIP (for students), and collaborates with other departments to address public health needs.

Provides urgent health care to the University's student, faculty/staff, and retiree populations. Responsible for urgent care visits. Participates in a team with physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses to provide high-quality and compassionate care. May participate in teaching residents and medical students.

• Has outpatient responsibilities for acute and non-acute patient complaints.
• Performs problem-based physical exams and orders appropriate laboratory, x-ray, and other diagnostic and medical procedures to meet short-term health care needs.
• Plans, directs, and coordinates the acute medical care as needed.
• Coordinates the appropriate referrals and follow-up care of patients to other health care providers for specialized needs.
• Educates patients – based on age, gender, psychosocial and cultural context, and overall health of the patient – on illness or its complications and on ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
• Advises the patient with an illness on the most clinically appropriate and cost-effective therapy, weighing and discussing the potential risks and benefits of treatment. HUHS embraces the principle of patient-centered care and shared decision making.
• Works closely with other members of the Urgent Care team.
• Participants in quality projects, daily huddles, Lean activities, and other continuing education, utilization management, and other departmental activities.
• Fosters positive working relationship and coordinates activities with other HUHS service areas.
• Complies with HUHS professional staff by-laws, policies, and procedures and applicable local, state, and federal accreditation regulations.
• Ensures that all lab results that he/she ordered are reported to patients in a timely fashion with clinically important abnormal results communicated by telephone and most other laboratory results communicated by mail or secure message.
• Fully documents the care of his/her patients utilizing the electronic medical record. Complies with all institutional policies related to the electronic medical record, including writing prescriptions electronically; documenting telephone and email communications; reviewing and signing off on nursing visits that require physician co-signature.
• May participate in the instruction of medical students and residents.
• Participates in all team meetings, including daily huddles, as often as possible.
• Participates in practice-improvement projects and functions as a “process owner” of projects as determined at daily huddles.

• Participates in team and committee efforts to solve problems, proposing ideas to improve the quality of care.
• Makes a continuous effort to satisfy the needs of patients and assist other clinicians.
• Works closely with the HUHS Patient Advocate and Chief of Urgent Care to address and resolve satisfactorily any specific patient-based concern or complaint.
• Promotes a positive image of HUHS by demonstrating knowledge and…