Primary Care Provider

Job Title: Primary Care Provider

Overview: As a Primary Care Provider (PCP), you will serve as the cornerstone of healthcare delivery, offering comprehensive medical care and promoting overall wellness for patients of all ages. In this pivotal role, you will establish long-term relationships with patients, provide preventive care, manage chronic conditions, and address acute healthcare needs. Your dedication to delivering patient-centered, evidence-based care will be instrumental in improving health outcomes and fostering a culture of wellness within the community.

Responsibilities:

1. Comprehensive Patient Care: Provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to patients, including preventive care, health screenings, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic medical conditions.
2. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Promote health and wellness through patient education, lifestyle counseling, immunizations, and preventive health screenings, with a focus on early detection and intervention.
3. Chronic Disease Management: Manage chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and obesity, through patient education, medication management, and lifestyle modifications.
4. Acute Care Services: Diagnose and treat acute illnesses and injuries, including infections, respiratory conditions, musculoskeletal injuries, and minor surgical procedures as appropriate.
5. Continuity of Care: Establish and maintain long-term relationships with patients, serving as their primary point of contact for all healthcare needs and coordinating care across multiple healthcare settings as necessary.
6. Health Maintenance: Monitor patients' health status, track health indicators, and proactively address emerging health concerns to prevent complications and optimize well-being.
7. Medication Management: Prescribe and manage medications, ensuring appropriate dosing, efficacy, and safety in accordance with evidence-based guidelines and patient preferences.
8. Collaborative Care: Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams, including nurses, specialists, pharmacists, and allied health professionals, to coordinate patient care and ensure seamless transitions between care settings.
9. Telemedicine Services: Provide virtual healthcare services through telemedicine platforms, offering convenient access to care and improving patient engagement and satisfaction.
10. Quality Improvement: Participate in quality improvement initiatives, such as clinical audits, performance measures, and patient satisfaction surveys, to enhance the quality and effectiveness of primary care services.

Requirements:

1. Education: Graduation from an accredited medical school and completion of a residency program in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, or another primary care specialty.
2. Licensure: Current licensure as a physician (MD or DO) in good standing, with board certification or eligibility in the applicable primary care specialty.
3. Clinical Competence: Demonstrated clinical competence and proficiency in primary care practice, including diagnosis, treatment, and management of common medical conditions across the lifespan.
4. Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish rapport with patients, families, and healthcare team members and communicate complex medical information in a clear and compassionate manner.
5. Empathy: Compassionate and patient-centered approach to care, with a commitment to understanding and addressing patients' physical, emotional, and social needs.
6. Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, respecting the expertise and contributions of each team member to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
7. Critical Thinking: Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to analyze complex clinical situations, integrate evidence-based practice guidelines, and make informed clinical decisions.
8. Ethical Conduct: Adherence to ethical principles and professional standards of conduct in all aspects of medical practice, including respect for patient autonomy, confidentiality, and cultural diversity.
9. Commitment to Continuous Learning: Commitment to ongoing professional development and lifelong learning, including participation in continuing medical education (CME) activities and pursuit of advanced certifications or qualifications in primary care.
10. Cultural Competence: Cultural competence and sensitivity to diverse patient populations, with the ability to provide culturally competent care and address health disparities.

About US

At Optum, you'll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. Here, you'll work alongside talented peers in a collaborative environment that is guided by diversity and inclusion while driving towards the Quadruple Aim. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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