FULL TIME PHYSICIAN AWS

Family Medicine/Pediatrician

The Montefiore School Health Program (MSHP

 

            The Montefiore School Health Program (MSHP)—the largest and most comprehensive School-Based health program in the country—provides coordinated primary and preventive healthcare to public elementary, middle, and high school students throughout the Bronx. 

The Physician Provider / Family Medicine in the Montefiore School-based Health Program is responsible for the following specific tasks:

 

A.         Clinical

1.         Take a good background information for all students registered with the School Health Program.

2.         Obtain the most recent comprehensive physical examination for students with primary care providers.

3.         Take on the role as primary care provider for students with no insurance and/or with no primary care provider.

4.         Conduct a regular comprehensive physical examination (PE) of students.

5.         Perform the regular health maintenance examination of the students who use the school-based health clinic as their primary care site.

6.         Develop an appropriate plan of care for all students seen in the clinic.

a.         Examine, assess and develop a treatment plan for all walk-in and acute care visits.

b.         Examine, assess and develop a treatment / follow-up plan for students with chronic illness.

7.         Develop and analyze differential diagnoses based on clinical and laboratory data.

8.         Order and interpret diagnostic and screening tests and procedures when necessary.

9.         Dispense medicines that are available in the clinic and prescribe medicines when necessary.

10.       Perform minor procedures (i.e., non-suture wound closing, minor wound debridement) in the school site, when applicable.

11.       Communicate and discuss the treatment plan effectively with the student and his / her parent or guardian.

12.       Communicate and discuss the treatment plan with the primary care provider when appropriate.

13.       Make the necessary referrals to other health care professionals when warranted (i.e., physicians, dentists, and specialists).

14.       Identify psychosocial and mental health issues that may be addressed in clinic or through an appropriate referral.

15.       Educate the student and his/her parent/guardian on the treatment plan including the side effects and possible adverse reactions of drug regimens.

16.       Conduct clinical case review with the mental health providers and other members of team

 

B.  Clerical

1.         Record all information, assessment, and treatment plan for each student on every visit in the medical record.

2.         Record all relevant information in the encounter form.

3.         Record all communications with parents and other health care providers in the medical record.

4.         Label all the medicines that are dispensed in t