Overview
**Description**
This position is a one-year training experience leading in Geriatric Medicine. Graduates are eligible to sit for the Certificate of Added Qualifications Exam in Geriatrics. Fellows acquire clinical skills through the care of elderly patients in the inpatient, outpatient and skilled nursing facility. Didactics and teaching conferences contribute to the acquisition of cognitive and professional skills. All services are supervised at an appropriate level by attending physicians.
**Qualifications** : The minimum qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and abilities needed to perform this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
**Education** : Graduation from an accredited medical school or osteopathic school. Successful completion of an accredited Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Residency Training Program.
**Licensures/Certifications:** At least a current Medical physician and Surgeon Limited License.
**Experience and Skills:** In addition to appropriate training as above, fellows must have demonstrated interest in the care of elderly adults. Fellows must possess the intellectual, communication, social, sensory and motor skills to perform the professional role of family medicine/internal medicine physician. Fellows must be board eligible or board certified in the specialty of Family Practice. Fellows must obtain at minimum, a current Medical Physician and Surgeon Limited License to practice Medicine in the state of Washington.
The Fellow, without the use of an intermediary, must be able to learn and perform the following:
+ Take a medical history and perform a physical exam and perform a psychiatric history & mental status evaluation
+ Address routine and emergent patient care needs in multiple care settings, demonstrating good medical judgment.
+ Communicate professionally with older patients, their caregivers, family, and staff.
+ Perform timely, consistent, reliable follow-up on patient care issues, lab results, patient phone calls, and other requests.
+ Appropriately use the electronic medical record as well as electronic educational resources for patient care and teaching.
+ Perform timely documentation, chart completion and other paperwork.
+ Prioritize multiple competing duties safely and appropriately.
+ Participate in and complete required rotations.
+ Supervise family practice residents in clinic and hospital care and prepare and deliver didactic presentations on geriatric topics
+ Provide culturally-competent, patient-centered care to all.
**About Providence**
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
**Requsition ID:** 240012
**Company:** Not Applicable
**Job Category:** Provider Residents/Fellows
**Job Function:** Provider
**Job Schedule:** Full time
**Job Shift:** Day
**Career Track:** Clinical Professional
**Department:** 3901 SFH FAMILY PRAC RESIDENTS
**Address:** WA Seattle 1401 Madison
**Work Location:** Swedish First Hill 1401 Madison-Seattle
**Pay Range:** $0 – $0
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Check out our benefits page for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.
Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
