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Neurologist - MD/DO

Join our team in El Paso, TX, an All-America City ranked among the safest in the U.S.

Community Overview

El Paso is situated in the far western corner of Texas, standing on the Rio Grande, across the border from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. The two cities, along with Las Cruces (in New Mexico), form a combined international metropolitan area known as the Paso del Norte or El Paso-Juárez-Las Cruces. The region has over 2.7 million people and constitutes the largest bilingual-binational workforce in the Western Hemisphere. In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award and has been ranked the safest large city in the U.S. for four consecutive years, remaining in the top three since 1997. The city is home to one Fortune 500 company and three publicly traded companies, as well as the Medical Center of the Americas, the only medical research and care provider complex in West Texas and southern New Mexico, and the University of Texas at El Paso, the city's primary university. El Paso also hosts the annual Sun Bowl, the second oldest bowl game in the country.

El Paso has a strong federal and military presence, including William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army Airfield, and Fort Bliss, one of the largest military complexes of the United States Army and the largest training area in the U.S.

Job Description

• Facilitate patient access to medical care by recommending appropriate referrals to other health care providers in accordance with MTF policies and regulations.
• Prepare all records and reports as may be required in support of services rendered and as required by the MTF.
• Take part in clinic Quality Assurance Program as required to meet the standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
• Serve as a board-certified physician in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, responsible for the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of outpatients seen in the clinic.
• Perform a wide range of medical duties covering adult neurology specialty with emphasis on neurophysiologic testing and interpretation and evaluation of patients with neuromuscular disorders.
• Examine patients, order and evaluate neurophysiology, radiology, and laboratory tests, make diagnoses, and prescribe appropriate treatment including drugs, plasmapheresis, nursing and dietary care, and ancillary therapies (physical, occupational, and speech).
• Make referrals to neurosurgery for urgent issues and decompensation of chronic neurologic conditions.
• Communicate with patients and refer them back to the primary care manager for management of diseases outside the specialty of neurology.
• Provide prescription renewal and telephone consultative services.
• Provide recommendations or definitive evaluation for neurology problems in the Tricare referral region through phone consultation, telemedicine, and authorization and evaluation of air evacuation patients as appropriate. Periodically provide episodic care to clinic patients on a walk-in basis.
• Evaluate and treat patients with multiple complicated problems who were screened and referred by the Emergency Room for urgent or emergent neurologic issues. Use of the electronic record for consult located in CHCS is required.
• May teach and provide consultation and clinical supervision to other health care providers (nurse practitioners, physician's assistants, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows). Serve as occasional consultation service for patients admitted to the hospital. The contract HCP should have hospital admitting privileges.
• May perform clinical or laboratory research or provide clinical supervision to house staff performing research.
• Work under general supervision of the Director, Intrepid Spirit program and the Chief, Department of Medicine. Exercise independent judgment in selection and performance of diagnostic evaluations for patients. Work independently in accordance with methods and practices of the medical profession and established administrative policies as an expert in Clinical Neurology. Medical diagnoses are not reviewed; considerable latitude for professional technical decisions is expected.
• Complete out-patient and in-patient evaluations appropriate for the patient to determine current levels of function/dysfunction using standardized and clinically accepted measurement.