Physician Assistant (Orthopedic Surgery)

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •US Citizenship
• •Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university certified by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education of the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
• •Complete residency or fellowship training
• •At least one year experience within the last two years, post-graduation, routinely practicing as an Orthopedic PA
• •Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Physician Assistant
• •BLS certification
• •NPI registration number
• •DEA registration number
• •Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants (NCCPA)
• •Appropriate TB test documentation within the last year
• •Willingness to comply with DHA vaccination and physical screening requirements
• •Subject to a background/security investigation and pre-employment drug screening
• •Ability to lift 50lbs
• •Ability to lift over 50lbs with assistance

Desired Qualifications

• •Recent hands-on orthopedic experience
• •Strong clinical judgment
• •Professionalism
• •Ability to provide safe, patient-centered care in both clinic and hospital-based settings
• •Comfortable working flexible shifts based on mission needs, including possible days, evenings, nights, weekends, training holidays, federal holidays, and adjusted schedules
• •Values teamwork, continuity of care, and service in a mission-focused military treatment facility
• •Knowledge of a full range of orthopedic physician assistant core principles, practices, and procedures applied in providing services in the orthopedic clinic to adult and pediatric patients
• •Specialized knowledge of musculoskeletal anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology
• •Knowledge of orthopedic equipment, methods, procedures, principles and techniques to include traction, casting and splinting
• •Ability to assess and treat acute presentations to include infections, fractures, neoplasms, and congenital deformities
• •Ability to assume responsibility for consultation from various non-orthopedic trained physicians and PAs regarding the diagnosis, care, and referral time of orthopedic patients
• •Knowledge and the ability to perform reductions of fractures and dislocations with the use of appropriate anesthesia (i.e. hematoma blocks, digital blocks, nerve blocks)
• •Ability to perform arthrocentesis independently
• •Ability to function as a first assistant to an orthopedic surgeon in the operating room
• •Knowledge of, and ability to perform minor surgical procedures such as wound closure, pin removal, compartment pressure measuring and monitoring
• •Knowledge of and ability to perform surgical procedures to include incision and debridement, nail extraction, and orthopedic hardware removal
• •Ability to perform injections/aspirations of various joints
• •Ability to order and interpret skeletal radiographs, magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography, bone scans, arthrograms, and electromyography
• •Ability to perform adequate/appropriate work-up in evaluating potential surgical candidates
• •Ability to make daily inpatient ward rounds and enter progress notes in the inpatient chart
• •Ability to provide preventive care to healthy individuals including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, child growth and development
• •Ability to design rehabilitation programs for patients
• •Ability to offer palliative treatment to chronic orthopedic conditions
• •Ability to counsel patients, families, and groups in general orthopedic care
• •Ability to conduct and dictate medical histories and physical examinations, and discharge summaries on orthopedic inpatients
• •Ability to use sound judgment in determining whether the orthopedic patients' condition requires referral or consultation with an orthopedic surgeon
• •Ability to develop lecture or journal articles to the Orthopedic Clinic
• •Possess one (1) year of post-education/graduation and post licensure clinical experience