Resident Physician - Family Medicine

Job Summary

Resident physicians develop and learn the skills necessary for their chosen specialty through direct patient care, under the supervision of the Medical Staff (attending physicians), didactic sessions, and through personal self-learning and reading.  They are promoted and graduated based on explicit criteria in accordance with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) General Competencies and the program requirements.  The residency program requires its residents to obtain competencies in the six areas described below, with increasing autonomy and responsibility, to the level of a new practitioner.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: An applicant must meet one of the following qualifications to be eligible for appointment to an ACGME-accredited program:
a.  Graduation from a medical school in the United States or Canada, accredited by the Liaison Committee on medical Education (LCME); or
b.  Graduation from a college of osteopathic medicine in the United States, accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA); or,
c.  Graduation from a medical school outside of the united States or Canada, and meeting one of the following additional qualifications:
Holds a currently valid certificate from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical 
Graduates prior to appointment; or, 
Holds a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a Untied States licensing jurisdiction in his or her current ACGME specialty/subspecialty program.
Minimum Years of Experience: None beyond medical school training
Required Certifications/Licensure: Must obtain and maintain an educational limited license or full unrestricted license with controlled substance license issued by the State of South Carolina.
Required Training: An orientation period prior to the start of the academic year is a condition of employment, and is not recognized as part of the formal training year requirements.
 

Essential Functions

Patient Care:  

• Identifies the purpose(s) for the patient visit. 
• Develops appropriate biopsychosocial hypotheses that apply to the patient’s presenting problem. 
• Conducts a focused evaluation of the patient’s presenting problem (including history, physical examination, and laboratory/radiological procedures). 
• Appropriately prioritizes the probable and potential patient diagnoses to ensure that attention is given to the most likely, most serious, and most readily treatable options. 
• Present a provisional and working diagnosis to the patient.
• Arranges for follow-up of the patient’s current problem that fits the guidelines of current standard of care and/or attends to the special needs of the patient. 
• Completely documents the patient care encounter in the electronic medical record in aconcise manner following a problem-oriented format and using the SOAP (or generally accepted) notation. 
• Updates the biopsychosocial problem list and medical list at each patient visit. 

Medical Knowledge: 

• Successfully completes approved residency training and receives a passing evaluation on all rotations. 
• Schedules and takes COMLEX-USA Level 3 or USMLE Step III prior to completion of the PGY1 year.
• Attends departmental academic conferences. 
• Contributes to the academic and scholarly mission of the program.
• Assists in student teaching, presents and participates in conferences. 
• Successfully completes forty (40) hours of prescribed learning modules in lifestyle medicine. 

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: 

• Demonstrates self-learning behavior and applies knowledge gained in the patient care setting. 
• Assists in chart audits and makes recommendation for improving patient care. 
• Participates in the office business meetings.  

Duties & Responsibilities

Interpersonal and Communication Skills: 

• Conducts patient interviews which fosters an adequate and helpful doctor-patient relationship. 
• Participates in recorded reviews of patient encounters with behavioral scientist and/or faculty advisor. 

Professionalism: 

• Develops a plan of action that attends to the salient medical, psychosocial, family, cultural and socioeconomic issues of the patient. 
• Exhibits personal integrity through strict avoidance of substance abuse, theft, lying, cheating and unexplained absences.

Systems-Based Practice:

• Bills patient fairly and appropriately for services rendered (in accordance with their insurance option)
• Participates in the underserved clinic as scheduled. 
• Complies with all hospital and program record keeping and documentation requirements.

Performs other duties as assigned.