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Job Responsibility:
Serve as a consultant to other physicians for patients with infectious diseases in an outpatient and/or hospital setting
Expert in history taking, physical examination, test interpretation, patient counseling and differential diagnosis and medical therapeutics
Assure the most effective delivery of care while meeting and exceeding compliance standards
Have responsibility and decision-making for the overall conduct of Infectious Disease diagnosis and treatment of patient related issues in the outpatient setting
Supervision and management (where appropriate) of patients transitioning from hospital to out-patient care
Initiation and Supervision of home IV therapies
Antibiotic stewardship in conjunction with P&T committee
Continuity outpatient clinics
Virtual health as pertains to Infectious Diseases
Availability for telephone and E-consults during regular business hours
Virtual visits
Telephone consults
Virtual consults
Video curbside consults
Indirect patient care: returning telephone calls, responding to patient emails, reviewing and renewing prescriptions, reviewing laboratory and imaging data, communicating results to patients, and implementing improved quality in systems delivery
Supervision of ID purchased services
Education of clinical staff regarding infectious disease diagnosis and treatment
Liaison with Wound Care
Liaison with Medical Director of Hospital Services
Regular meetings with Associate Medical Directors
Office hours to meet demand- time and location to be determined
Requirements:
American Board of Internal Medicine or Internal Medicine and Pediatrics