Remote Physician

Summary

The job is for a Physician at Vida, a virtual health clinic that provides expert, personalized healthcare services. The role involves providing direct patient care, prescribing medications, communicating with patients, maintaining medical records, and more. The physician is also expected to provide training, clinical oversight, and mentorship to other staff.

Requirements

• Physician (MD or DO) with active, unrestricted license in 30+ states including PA, CA, NY, TX, FL, MD, VA
• Board certification strongly preferred in internal medicine or family medicine- other specialties can be considered with preference for those who have completed a full internal medicine residency
• Has or will obtain board certification in obesity management from the American Board of Obesity Medicine as soon as practicable at the company’s expense
• Availability to cover at least three critical outreach shifts/week. Critical outreach shifts take place on weekends, early mornings(7am) or in the evenings(7pm)
• Experience supervising and mentoring clinical staff
• Experience treating CHF, COPD, Diabetes and/or Obesity preferred
• Experience working with patients, clients and other clinical providers in an integrated setting
• Meticulous organizational skills and attention to detail
• Previous experience with quality assurance and improvement practices preferred
• Experience with digital technology
• Ability to perform independently, under minimal supervision with accountability for specific goals/objectives
• Demonstrates problem solving, leadership, conflict management and team building skills in order to ensure a productive work environment and achievement of goals
• Demonstrates strong aptitude to work in a rapidly changing, start-up environment
• Proficiency with EMR (electronic medical record) systems

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care- support by prescribing, creating, monitoring and supporting treatment plans in accordance with statutes, regulations and protocols
• Issue medication prescriptions in accordance with treatment guidelines
• Order laboratory tests, interpret and explain the test results to patients
• Provide patient education regarding medications, risks, benefits and reasonable outcome expectations
• Communicate with patients and engage in follow-up as necessary
• Refer higher acuity patients to specialized care based off of a stringent screening guideline to ensure quality of care and the best outcome for patients
• Maintain medical records and high quality of clinical documentation
• Provide medical care, patient education and medication prescribing and management in an empathetic and judgment-free manner
• Cover critical outreach shifts to support remote monitoring up to three days per week (including 2 shift hours on weekends) and some one hour shifts that could be at 7am or 7pm
• Reach out to members identified by remote monitoring protocols and, if needed prescribe rescue medications or direct to community medicine/emergency services
• Provide training, clinical oversight and mentorship to NPs, PAs and/or MAs (20%)