Medical Officer (General Practitioner)

Duties

General Practitioners provide specialized medical services to outpatients and provide medical care to inpatients in institutions with an inpatient mission. Specific duties may involve all aspects of health care delivery, and will work in concert with both institution staff and consultant specialists in various clinical areas. Performs all duties in accordance with current accepted medical practices and procedures.

Performs complete physical examinations. Collects comprehensive medical and social history to include a review of all body systems. Performs physical assessment in correlation with historical findings, records preliminary objective findings.

Examines and orders appropriate diagnostic testing and provides necessary treatment and/or medications as required. Refers selected cases to consultant specialists when necessary. Refers inmates requiring hospitalization to a community hospital and to an appropriate admitting physician. For institutions with inpatient beds, incumbent will make rounds on inmates admitted to his/her care, as described in applicable local procedures. Additionally, the clinician may see inmate patients who are in locked status, in their designated housing area or housed in segregation units.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements.

Basic Requirements:

Degree: Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant's graduation. A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country).

NOTE: ALL applicants MUST electronically upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement at the time you apply. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Application site at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include school name, student name, degree and date awarded. The education MUST be from an institution accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website.

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Graduate Training: Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least 1 year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited for such training. (This 1 year of supervised experience may be waived for research or administrative positions not requiring direct patient care.) For purposes of this standard, graduate training programs include only those internship, residency, and fellowship programs that are approved by accrediting bodies recognized within the United States or Canada. Listings of accredited programs are published yearly in the Directory of Residency Training Programs and the Yearbook and Directory of Osteopathic Physicians.

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Licensure: For positions involving patient care, candidates must have a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

NOTE: ALL applicants MUST electronically upload proof of current, active and unrestricted license to practice medicine, and proof of successful completion of an accredited graduate training internship, fellowship, or residency program for verification at the time you apply.

Prior to employment, applicants who successfully pass all phases of the interview process will undergo a credentialing requirement. The requirement includes validation of medical examinations, education, internship and residency. Please submit documents along with required supporting documentation at the time you apply.

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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Education

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

Experience

Applicants must be skilled in recognizing various medical pathologies that require referral to specialists for diagnostic and treatment procedures. Graduate training and experience must, therefore, be well rounded.

GS-14 and GS-15:

Applicants must have three (3) years of graduate training or equivalent experience and training, AND one (1) year of appropriate experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are:

GS-14:

• Experience examining and ordering diagnostic testing and providing necessary treatment and/or medications.
• Experience conducting examinations of personnel for pre-employment physicals. Approves or disapproves examinees in such cases from a medical viewpoint and in accordance with current established medical standards for employees.
• Experience prescribing medications, treatments, and fully utilizing health services for treatment, rehabilitative, and diagnostic modalities.

GS-15:

• Experience providing inpatient and outpatient medical care in all aspects of health care delivery in accordance with current accepted medical practice and procedures.
• Experience providing physical examinations, physical assessment in correlation with historical findings, records preliminary objective findings.
• Experience providing treatment, emergency medical/surgical services as required, treat severe trauma cases rehabilitative, diagnostic modalities and prescribing medication.

Credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities.

Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.