CCI

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Pediatrician

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 Department: Health Services
Reports To: Medical Director
FLSA: Non-Exempt
 Effective Date: November 2008
Approved By: Medical Director

POSITION SUMMARY

The Pediatrician will be responsible to provide medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults from birth to age 21 under the direction of the Medical Director, delivers primary care commensurate with training and experience to all CCI patients. Delivers care appropriate for an out-patient, primary care community health center with multicultural, multilingual patient population.

KEY FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Examines, diagnoses, and treats diseases and injuries of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults from birth to age 21.
• Examines patients and determines need for x-ray examinations and clinical laboratory tests.
• Interprets examination findings and test results, and implements pediatric treatment plans.
• Prepares and reviews case histories and obtains data in clinical encounters.
• Supports health promotion and disease prevention activities to enable each child to reach full potential.
• Monitors physical and psychosocial growth and development.
• Conducts age appropriate screening.
• Provides advice and education for patients and parents regarding appropriate preparation for predictable developmental challenges.
• Determines need for consultation and assists in medical care treatment provided at the direction of other specialists.
• May instruct medical students and/or residents in procedures for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of infants and children.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of the principles and practice of preventive medicine.
• Knowledge of the state and federal laws pertaining to medicine and to community health centers.
• Knowledge of the structure and function of community health centers.
• Skill in communicating effectively with patients and their families.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other employees, patients and the general public.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduation from a college or university accredited by the American Medical Association with a Doctor of Medicine degree or accredited by the American Osteopathic Association with a Doctor or Osteopathy degree. If medical education occurred at a foreign medical school, the applicant must possess a current Educational Council Foreign Medical Graduate (ECFMG) Certificate.
• Successful completion of an approved program of residency training in pediatrics.
• Must be in possession of a valid license to practice in the State of MD.
• Demonstrate a special interest in the area of community medicine.
• Ability to speak enough Spanish to examine Spanish-speaking patients and converse on basic level strongly preferred.
• Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Medical/Clinical environment.
• ADA: This position may require long periods of standing. In accordance with the American with Disabilities Act, it is possible that requirements may be modified to reasonably accommodate disabled individuals. However, no accommodations will be made which may pose serious health or safety risks to the employee or others or which impose undue hardships on the organization. This position also requires the ability to drive between clinical sites in order to provide additional coverage when needed.
• OSHA Category
• Likely to have blood or body fluid exposure.