Instructions:
Rate your knowledge and experience performing specific job-related tasks.
Tasks:
1: Participate or assist with referrals to outside medical providers.
2: Participate in the hiring process (e.g., conducting interviews, evaluating and recommending candidates for hire.)
3: Ensure that patients receive timely provision of medical care (e.g. assessment, reassessment, treatment, monitoring ongoing treatment, prompt identification of medical problem(s), etc.)
4: Assess patient’s health status to provide medically necessary treatment (e.g. medications, therapy, diagnostic/laboratory studies, etc.)
5: Provide direction to medical staff and other professional personnel administering medical and/or specialty care to patients.
6: Review patient medical records (e.g. progress notes, patient histories and examinations, correspondence, appeals, reports, etc.).
7: Assist and/or consult staff members on unusual or difficult medical problems (e.g. appropriate treatment, programmatic concerns, issues of professional practice, etc.).
8: Evaluate and/or modify physicians medical treatment plans.
9: Collaborate with public and private facilities.
10: Participate in continuing medical education as required by state licensing requirements.
Knowledge, Skill, or Ability:
1: Knowledge of principles, methods and practice of general medicine and surgery, and skill in their application.
2: Knowledge of treatment modalities (e.g., pharmaceutical, physical, surgical, and radiological).
3: Knowledge of treating infectious diseases, and infectious disease processes and procedures.
4: Knowledge of general principles of psychiatry and neurology to effectively collaborate in regards to treatment for patients in a hospital.
5: Knowledge of current developments and trends in general medicine and surgery to diagnose and treat injuries.
6: Knowledge of principles and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical ailments to evaluate treatment effectiveness.
7: Knowledge of principles and practices of personnel management to effectively manage personnel.
8: Ability to provide clinical recommendations to others involved in health care delivery to promote effective utilization of medical resources and ensure compliance with laws, rules, policies, etc.
9: Ability to analyze situations accurately to make reasonable decisions and adopt effective courses of action with regard to medical management of patients.
10: Ability to effectively contribute to the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) objectives.
11: Ability to direct and coordinate complex and varied activities in the field of general medicine and surgery.
12: Ability to maintain a compassionate and objective understanding of the problems of the mentally disabled and developmentally disabled.
13: Ability to maintain tact, patience, and emotional stability.
14: Ability to demonstrate leadership.
