DescriptionProgram Highlights:
- You will be joining the team ofthreepediatric epilepsy providers one general neurology provider with a special interest in neonatal neurology and one neurology nurse practitioner with a specialization in autism evaluation
- 24hour EEG video monitoring with a total of 4 EEG machines (ER ICU floor ambulatory EEG monitoring) with a dedicated pediatric EEG technologists
- EMR EPIC
- Ample and competent support staff allows you to work smarter not harder
- Affiliation to various LSU and Womans hospitals. (state of art SMA treatment with advanced gene therapy)
Clinical teaching and administrative responsibilities include:
- Provide clinical care to both outpatients and inpatients at childrens hospital
- Participate in call duties covering Neurology
- Teaching and evaluating students and residents in the program
- Displaying innovation regarding process improvements and new practices
- Motivation to further build and enhance existing neurology practice
Physician Job Summary:
- The Staff Physician provides direct patient care and emergency services in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times.
Experience Education Training Special Skills and Licensure:
- MD
- Graduate from an accredited medical of a Pediatric Neurology Fellowship
- Special interest in General Pediatric Neurology Stroke Neuromuscular Neuroimmunology or headaches preferred
- Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License
Job Function:
- Patient Care
- Provides direct patient care in the office and at other locations develops treatment plans and assesses patients response to treatment while ensuring that all health care services provided are of the highest quality.
- Provides high quality emergency care to patients on an oncall basis and in rotation with other physicians in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times (Industrial Medical Centers Staff Physician does not provide oncall services).
- Quality and Performance Improvement
- Investigates new techniques practices and equipment in an effort to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
- Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multidisciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts. Assists in ensuring that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion understanding and respect for others.
- Ensures the appropriate application of the hospitals mission and philosophy and departmental and hospital policies and procedures in a manner that promotes the provision of high quality health care services and departmental effectiveness.
- Promotes the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in field of expertise through participation in jobrelevant seminars and workshops attendance at professional conferences and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
- Collaboration and Partnership
- Collaborates with other physicians in order to ensure the provision of high quality medical care and technologically advanced health care services by the hospital.
- Participates in educational programs inservice meetings and training sessions in an effort to share his/her own expertise with others and further the quality of education and personal growth provided to new personnel volunteers and interning students.
- Other Duties
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested.