Instructions:
Rate your knowledge and experience performing specific job-related tasks.
Tasks:
1: Interview individuals to establish medical history, nature of symptoms, and health status using medical records and physical forms.
2: Perform standard physical exams to individuals to evaluate health status, and/or activities of daily living using medical records and medical instruments.
3: Assess individual’s health status to provide medically necessary treatment using individual examinations, interviews, health records, and test results.
4: Perform medical, surgical, and diagnostic procedures (e.g., suturing, incision and drainage, biopsy, excision) to diagnose, treat, or prevent individuals’ illnesses and injuries and to promote health utilizing surgical skills, and medications.
5: Consult and confer with other physicians and surgeons about appropriate treatments and procedures as appropriate to the patient.
6: Participate in the facility’s program for Medical Quality Assurance and Medicare Compliance Plan to ensure that quality care is delivered in accordance to medical standards or regulations.
7: Respond to medical emergencies and provide medical intervention techniques to ensure individuals receive all appropriate treatments in a timely manner to maintain their health.
8: Conduct peer review, and quality review to evaluate, document, and improve the quality and appropriateness of individual’s care utilizing health record, medical knowledge, laws, rules, regulations, and lab tests.
9: Manage medical problems in the inpatient care setting (including making rounds) to facilitate continuity of care and appropriate management of individual’s medical conditions.
10: Clinically supervise nurse practitioners, physician assistants, technicians, and other personnel to maintain the standards of care, and promote effective utilization.
Knowledge, Skill, or Ability:
1: Knowledge of methods and principles of general medicine and skill in their application.
2: Knowledge of methods and principles of surgery and skill in their application.
3: Knowledge of recent developments in general medicine and surgery to diagnose and treat patients.
4: Knowledge of hospital organization and procedure.
5: Knowledge of gross pathology and autopsy findings.
6: Knowledge of psychiatric social work, physical therapy, and the various rehabilitation therapies.
7: Knowledge of directing the work of medical personnel.
8: Knowledge of ancillary services and their applications (e.g., radiology, laboratory, dietary, respiratory therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy) to provide medically necessary individual care.
9: Ability to examine, diagnose, and treat physical disorders.
10: Ability to interpret laboratory analyses, radiological images, or other diagnostic test results to determine their significance and guide subsequent management plans for the individual.
11: Ability to analyze infectious disease data and apply preventive modalities as appropriate.
12: Ability to recognize and manage drug reactions and drug-drug interactions (DDI).
13: Ability to prepare and supervise the preparation of case histories ensuring individual privacy and Health Information Portability Accountability Act (HIPPA) compliance.
14: Ability to assist in peer review, morbidity and mortality evaluations, and other quality assurance functions.
