physician assistant
Posted on
October 11, 2024
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Employer details
KMH Cardiology Centres Inc.
Job details
*The Organization:*
We are a provider of high quality healthcare with 10 clinics in the GTA and South Western Ontario region. We are committed to providing diagnostic care and imaging that will assist in the early detection of disease, plan patient management and effectively monitor treatment. We support thousands of referring physicians and hospital programs including an exclusive partnership with Sunnybrook Hospital as the Rapid Cardiology Clinic and Heart Failure outpatient center.
Our areas of expertise include Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiology Consults and Diagnostics, MRI, PET and specialist services.
Our Mission: To set new standards in the delivery of comprehensive, efficient and cost effective health care services with a commitment to high quality patient care.
We can offer you a great environment with an outstanding team and the opportunity for learning and growth.
For more information, please go to www.kmhlabs.com
*The Role:*
Are you an _International Medical Graduate_ with a background in Cardiology, excellent communication skills and clinic medical administration experience?
KMH Cardiology Centres Inc. is recruiting for a full-time Physician Assistant role for our busy practises in Markham _and_ North York.
*The Accountabilities:*
The Physician Assistant works in a collaborative practice model in a fast paced cardiology practise to provide quality care, monitoring and assessment to patients. This role directly supports the Cardiologist with ensuring Intake, Patient History and Notes/Documentation is completed and communicated accurately and efficiently. The three core functions of the role are below:
*Patient Intake and Documentation:*
- Conduct patient interviews and obtain patient?s medical history
- Update patient history and pertinent health information in chart
- Review medication history
- Organize chart with all relevant documents for cardiologist review
- Coordinate services for patients when needed
- Follow-up on test results
*Physician Support:*
- Organize and provide required pre and post patient documentation to the cardiologist for review
- Review and prep chart including previous history to summarize for cardiologist
- Assist cardiologist in ordering diagnostic tests
- Facilitate workflow of the clinic and provide assistance to Cardiologist with patient and operational issues
- Help support the care and monitoring of patients
- Provide required information to internal front office and back office teams to ensure effective communication resulting in smooth and uninterrupted workflow (example: day sheets, Diagnostic codes, referral information, supplies etc.)
- Patient education as recommended by cardiologist
*Medical Administration:*
- Maintain and update patient records using electronic medical records (EMR) system
- Comply with KMH and healthcare policies related to patient care and privacy
- Document patient appointments
- Coordinate with KMH medical administration and clinical teams to facilitate diagnostic tests and referrals
- Perform administration or operational tasks to improve productivity and clinic workflow
- Collaborate with internal teams on logistics to ensure supplies are replenished and maintained for clinic
*The Requirements:*
- Internal medical graduate
- Prior experience in cardiology and relevant medical education
- Strong knowledge of cardiovascular disease management
- Experience working in a clinic setting
- Proficiency in Medical Terminology in Cardiology and related diagnostic imaging
- Pharsi language skills are an asset
- Scribe experience is an asset
- Ability to communicate effectively in person, by phone and in writing/electronically
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and responsibly in an interdisciplinary team environment
- Demonstrated initiative and judgment appropriateness for the position
- Technology skills including Microsoft Office and EMR
- Ability to accept assigned or delegated functions
- Excellent interpe
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LocationNorth York, ON
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Workplace information
On site
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Salary$28.00HOUR hourly
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Terms of employment
Full time
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Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies
1 vacancy
- Source
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