Staff Physician (32-40 hours per week)

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides abortion care within scope of practice, allowed by law, and in accordance with PPM/PPFA Medical Standards and Guidelines, including everything listed below.
• Provides medication abortions, surgical abortions, early pregnancy evaluation and management and mild/moderate sedation, including laboratory testing, patient medical screening, ultrasound performance and interpretation, counseling and informed consent, surgical and recovery room, post-abortion follow-up visits, etc.
• Provides all family planning services post-abortion procedure including Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive methods.
• Functions as clinical resource for clinical staff. Provides direct patient consults as necessary.
• Manages abortion service patients requiring outside referral and follow up.
• Assists with training of clinical staff for difficult counseling situations, sees patients with staff when necessary.
• Oversees ultrasounds performed for gestational age dating and early pregnancy issues and refers as appropriate.
• Supervises the care and follow-up for all early medication abortion patients, possible ectopic pregnancies or any patient needing follow-up of external laboratory or ultrasound results.
• Ensures appropriate follow up recommendations and follow up contacts of all medical abortion patients seen at PPM.
• Provides appropriate supervision and training for approved trainees in the health center.
• Provides non-abortion care within scope of practice, allowed by law, and in accordance with PPM/PPFA Medical Standards and Guidelines, including everything listed below.
• Complex Contraception, including difficult LARC insertions/removals.
• Vasectomies.
• Colposcopy/LEEP.
• General Family Planning Services.
• Telehealth Services.
• Adheres to affiliate goals and policies on professionalism, customer service, wait time in-clinic and on the phone, and the system for addressing client complaints.
• Completes required trainings in a timely fashion.
• Participates in health center/affiliate efforts to achieve established revenue cycle and productivity goals.

Secondary Functions:

• Participates in clinical training and oversight activities.
• Assists with ultrasound training.
• Assists with clinician training and annual observations.
• Assists with Rh competency assessments under direction of the Laboratory Director.
• Participates as program director or designee for service lines as assigned by CMO.
• Participate in clinician’s meetings to disseminate information and/or provide training to expand skill of clinicians, including self.
• Travel to sites as needed.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education Requirements:

• Must be a graduate of an approved medical school and licensed to practice in the State of Maryland. Board certified or Board eligible for certification by the American Board of Obstetrics/Gynecology in General Ob/Gyn.
• Preferred: Complex Family Planning Board Certification.

Experience/Skills:

• Specialized training in the areas of reproductive health, abortion, gynecology.
• Experience performing ultrasounds for gestational dating and assessment of placenta accreta spectrum.
• Experience with provision of outpatient second-trimester abortion care.
• Experience providing clinical care for abortion or post-abortion patients, including second trimester abortion care.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience in an abortion care environment strongly preferred.
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