Palliative Care Specialist Physician

Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.

Position Purpose:As a Palliative Care Physician (MD/DO), you will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive and specialized medical care to adult patients. You will focus on preventing, diagnosing, and treating a wide range of illnesses and chronic conditions, with an emphasis on promoting overall health and well-being. This position requires a deep understanding of internal medicine principles and the ability to collaborate with other healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality patient care.

Essential Functions:

Patient Care Conduct thorough medical examinations, assessments, and diagnostic evaluations. Develop and implement treatment plans for a variety of medical conditions, coordinating care across multiple disciplines as needed. Monitor and manage chronic illnesses, emphasizing preventive care and patient education.

Diagnosis and Treatment Utilize diagnostic tools, medical imaging, and laboratory tests. Prescribe and manage medications, therapies, and other interventions based on evidence-based medicine and individual patient needs. Accurately diagnose medical conditions.

Collaboration Work closely with interdisciplinary teams, including specialists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Communicate effectively with patients and their families. Ensure comprehensive and coordinated patient care. Explain diagnoses, treatment plans, and expected outcomes.

Preventive Medicine Focus on preventive care and health maintenance, providing guidance on lifestyle modifications, vaccinations, and screenings. Educate patients on disease prevention, health promotion, and self-care strategies.

Record Keeping Maintain accurate and up-to-date medical records, documenting patient encounters, diagnoses, treatments, and follow-up plans in electronic health records. Provision of high-quality, safe, and patient-centered care, while also serving broader organizational, legal, and regulatory objectives. It plays a critical role in promoting transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement within the healthcare system.

Continuous Learning Participate in continuing medical education activities to enhance knowledge and skills. Stay abreast of current medical literature, research findings, and advancements in internal medicine.

Education:Doctorate Degree Medical Doctor degree from an accredited medical school.

Job Experience: 0-2 years Completion of residency in Palliative Care. Prior experience in internal medicine after residency completion is desirable.

License and Certifications:

License Required Current and valid medical license.

Certification Required Board certification in Internal Medicine.

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Strong clinical and diagnostic skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work collaboratively in a team-based healthcare environment.

Ability to travel as needed

Other Languages: English/Spanish Advanced

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Environmental Conditions:

(Environmental Conditions - Office Setting Example, edit to preference.) Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical Demands:

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While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Employees may be required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of the company. Since no job description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder’s responsibility.