Correctional Medicine Physician

Quick Facts

• Role: Physician (Correctional)

• Schedule: 8-hour sessions, 5 days per week (excluding federal holidays); typically 6:00am–6:00pm Sunday–Saturday

Description

Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive healthcare services for incarcerated patients. Responsibilities include taking medical histories, examining patients, ordering and interpreting laboratory tests and x-rays, making diagnoses, creating treatment plans, prescribing medications, and managing injuries and medical emergencies. You will also document progress notes, recommend outside consultations when needed, and support clinic operations including daily sick calls.

Responsibilities

• Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services

• Take medical histories and perform patient examinations

• Order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays

• Make diagnoses, develop treatment plans, and prescribe medications

• Clinically manage injuries (e.g., suturing, splinting, immobilizing)

• Attend to medical emergencies

• Record progress notes; recommend clinically necessary outside consultation

• Instruct and counsel patients; order or carry out therapy

• Perform emergency consultation when deemed necessary; provide minor surgery using local anesthesia during consultations

• Collaborate with other health professionals to plan, implement, evaluate, and revise program plans

• Help determine conditions, resources, and policies essential to healthcare delivery

• Identify abnormal findings early, including serious physical, emotional, or mental problems

• Manage daily clinic operations and conduct daily sick calls

• Provide a wide range of emergency services