Description The Physician provides primary, urgent or specialty medical care to patients at the clinic and performs related duties. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: • Provides primary, urgent or specialty care to all patients in accordance with the physician’s medical specialty. • Develops a plan of care for each patient, including: complete medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization when necessary. • Provides diagnosis and treats injuries, illnesses, and disorders • Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests and explains the results to patients • May hospitalize patients when appropriate and serve as the attending physicians for the patient during his/her stay in the hospital. • On rotational basis, serves as the on-call physician when the clinic is not open. • Is able to work on Saturday clinic on a rotational basis. • Stresses on the importance of preventative health care measures and counsels patients • Prescribes medications or therapies. • Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner. • Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patient’s families concerning treatment and care of patients. • Refers patients requiring specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided. • Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated performance improvements plans. • Adheres to ethical, professional and legal requirements as mandated by federal, state, local and funding agencies. • Documents electronically with EHR system. • Attends all medical staff meeting and participates in the community health center’s Quality Assurance program. • Complies with all state and federal mandated regulations • Assists in the training of para-professional and non-medical personnel. • Provides guidance to other health team members in the development of health education materials and programs for registrants and the community at large. • Provides training or teaching, when appropriate, to medical students, medical residents, nursing students, and other students who come for training. • May provide supervision to mid level providers such as NP or PA. • Full-time physicians are generally required to maintain hospital privileges, this may include coverage of the emergency room and inpatient services for patients if this is a requirement by the hospital to maintain hospital privileges. • Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor. Qualifications • Graduation from an accredited school of medicine. • Licensed to practice medicine in the State of California. • Ability to work as team with other health professionals and non-medical personnel. • Board eligible or certified in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Ob/Gyn or Emergency Medicine. • If providing subspecialty or specialty services, be board eligible or certified to that specific specialty or fellowship. • Current documentation of Basic Life Support is required. LANGUAGE: • Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English. • Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) is preferred. • Fluent in other languages are an asset. Requirements Must maintain state certification and/or licensure.