Physician / Neurology / Texas / Permanent / Neurologist - MD/DO Job

Job Description

Neurologist - MD/DO
All-America City ranked among safest in the US

The Community - El Paso, TX
El Paso is situated in the far western corner of the state of Texas. El Paso stands on the Rio Grande, across the border from Ciudad Ju rez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The two cities, along with Las Cruces (in the neighboring state of New Mexico), form a combined international metropolitan area, sometimes referred as the Paso del Norte or El Paso-Ju rez-Las Cruces. The region of over 2.7 million people constitutes the largest bilingual-binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award. El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the U.S. for four consecutive years and ranked in the top three since 1997. The city is the headquarters of one Fortune 500 and three publicly traded companies, as well as home to the Medical Center of the Americas, the only medical research and care provider complex in West Texas and southern New Mexico, and the University of Texas at El Paso, the city's primary university. The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl, the second oldest bowl game in the country.

Fort Bliss
El Paso has a strong federal and military presence. William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army Airfield and Fort Bliss call the city home. Fort Bliss is one of the largest military complexes of the United States Army and the largest training area in the United States. Also headquartered in El Paso are the DEA domestic field division 7, El Paso Intelligence Center, Joint Task Force North, U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector and U.S. Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG).

William Beaumont Army Medical Center
The six-building complex includes the seven-story, 135-bed hospital, two six-story clinic buildings, administration building, clinical investigation, or research, building with labs and central utility building with power generators. All the buildings, except for the research building are in one connected complex. The new facility was just completed the end of last year at a cost of $1.4b.

Requirements (duties include but are not limited to)

• Facilitate patient access to medical care by recommending appropriate referrals to other health care providers in accordance with MTF policies and regulations.
• Prepare all records and reports as may be required in support of services rendered and as required by the MTF.
• Take part in clinic Quality Assurance Program as required to meet the standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
• Serves as a board-certified physician in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, responsible for the examination, diagnosis and treatment of the full range of outpatients seen in the clinic.
• In an outpatient clinic the applicant performs a wide range of medical duties covering adult neurology specialty with emphasis on neurophysiologic testing and interpretation and evaluation of patients with neuromuscular disorders.
• Examines patients, orders and evaluates the full range of neurophysiology, radiology and laboratory tests, makes diagnosis and prescribes appropriate treatment to include drugs, plasmapharesis, nursing and dietary care, ancillary therapies (physical, occupational, and speech).
• Makes referrals to neurosurgery for urgent issues, and decompensation of chronic neurologic conditions.
• Communicates with patients and refers patients back to the primary care manager for management of diseases outside the specialty of neurology.
• Provides prescription renewal and telephone consultative services.
• Provides recommendations or definitive evaluation for neurology problems in the Tricare referral region through phone consultation, telemedicine, and authorization and evaluation of air evacuation patients as appropriate. Periodically provides episodic care to clinic patients on a walk-in basis.
• Evaluates and treats patients with multiple complicated problems who were screened and referred by the Emergency Room for urgent or emergent neurologic issues. Use of the electronic record for consult located in CHCS is required. A full working knowledge of electronic data retrieval in the electronic record system is required.
• May teach and provide consultation and clinical supervision to other health care providers (nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows). Serves as occasional consultation service for patients admitted to the hospital. The contract HCP should have hospital admitting privileges.
• May perform clinical or laboratory research, or provide clinical supervision to house staff performing research.
• Works under general supervision of the Director, Intrepid Spirit program and the Chief, Department of Medicine, who discusses policies and objectives. The individual exercises independent judgment in selection and performance of the full range of diagnostic evaluations for patients. Incumbent works independently in accordance with methods and practices of the medical profession and established administrative policies as an expert in the field of Clinical Neurology. Medical diagnoses are not reviewed and the individual has considerable latitude for professional technical decisions, overall effectiveness, and accomplishment of objectives. The quality of professional and administrative work is evaluated using the quality assurance principles; policies and regulations as mandated by the Joint Commission, and as structured by appropriate Army and local regulations and policies.
• Complete out-patient and in-patient evaluations appropriate for the patient to determine current levels of function/dysfunction using standardized and clinical