Physician Assistant - Medicine - Mount Sinai Queens - Full Time

Diagnoses and treats adult medical patients in accordance with the scope of defined privileges. Responsible for diagnosing and treating adult medical patients and developing a plan of care; participates in multi-disciplinary floor rounds on a regular basis

1.Provides all aspects of care to patients on assigned Medicine service, in accordance with delineation of privileges    

2.Performs complete admission histories and physical examinations        

3.Conducts patient health assessment interviews, orders and interprets diagnostic screening tests            

4.Makes rounds, writes notes, discusses care plan with attendings on medicine patients   

5.Regulates selected medication and treatments as appropriate, in collaboration with physicians  

6.Notifies changes in patient conditions and care plan changes to attending physicians and nursing personnel to facilitate patient care           

7.Maintains proper chart documentation reporting and interpreting patient responses to the plan of care  

8.Participates in quality improvement activities     

9.Participates in educational forums             

10.Counsels and assists patients and family members assuming responsibility for prevention of illness and promotion of health maintenance and restoration of health          

11.Identifies available community resources helpful to patients and their family     

12.Maintains and updates patient records    

13.Completes medical discharge summaries in a timely manner     

14.Acts as mentor for physician assistant students and newly hired physician assistants     

15.Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned area

Requires appointment to the Medical Center Allied Health Personnel Staff.

Valid New York State license and registration as a physician assistant.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island,