Gulf Breeze, Florida5 days ago
The objective of medicine under the watchful eye of attending faculty clinicians includes participation in safe, effective and compassionate patient care; developing an understanding of ethical, socioeconomic and medical-legal issues that affect graduate medical education, and how to apply cost containment measures in the provision of patient care; participation in the educational activities of the training program, and as appropriate, assumption of responsibility for teaching and supervising other residents and students, and participation in institutional orientation and education programs and other activities involving the clinical staff; participation in institutional committees and councils to which the house staff physician is appointed or invited; and performance of these duties in accordance with the established practices, procedures and policies of the institution, and those of its programs, clinical departments and other institutions to which the house staff physician is assigned; including, among others, state licensure requirements for physicians in training. General responsibilities of the resident physician including but not limited to: Initial and ongoing assessment of patient's medical, physical, and psychosocial status; perform history and physical; develop assessment and treatment plan; perform rounds; record progress notes; order tests, examinations, medications, and therapies; arrange for discharge and after care; write / dictate admission notes, progress notes, procedure notes, and discharge summaries; provide patient education and counseling covering health status, test results, disease processes, and discharge planning; perform procedures; and assist in surgery.