Physician Assistant - General Surgery

Job Description

Job Description

Physician Assistant - General Surgery: Full Time
Pay Range: $119,549 - $191,279

With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington, D.C. area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation’s only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.

Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Full-time Physician Assistant in General Surgery who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Howard University Hospital (HUH) supports a Just Culture to improve patient safety. This atmosphere of accountability promotes the identification of human error (mistake), at-risk behavior (a behavioral choice that increases risk), and reckless behavior (disregard for risk). The goal is to maintain a culture for learning, safe systems, and well-managed behavioral choices.

A Surgical Physician Assistant is a highly trained and skilled medical professional who works alongside surgeons and other members of the surgical team. Surgical PAs are a vital part of the healthcare team and play an important role in ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of surgical care.

Duties:

• Assist surgeons during operative procedures, providing aid in exposure, hemostasis, and other intraoperative technical functions that help surgeons carry out a safe operation with optimal results for the patient.
• Conduct pre-operative patient assessments and provide postoperative care and monitoring.
• Take patient medical histories and perform physical examinations.
• Coordinate patient care with other healthcare professionals.
• Administer medications and injections as prescribed.
• Maintain accurate and detailed medical records, documenting all patient interactions, treatments, and procedures according to hospital policy, legal requirements, and Howard University Hospital medical staff bylaws.
• Work closely with other medical and surgical specialties to coordinate and optimize patient care.
• Educate patients and families on surgical procedures and postoperative care.
• Participate in surgical rounds, staff meetings and in quality improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing patient outcomes.
• Assumes other duties and responsibilities that are related and appropriate to the position and area. The above responsibilities are a general description of the level and nature of the work assigned to this classification and are not to be considered all-inclusive.

Minimum Requirements Include:

• Previous experience in general surgery required.
• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
• Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Licensed to practice as a PA in Washington, DC.
• Bilingual or multilingual a plus.
• BLS Certification required.
• ACLS Certification required.

At Howard University Hospital, our job is to care for you. We do this by offering:

• Work-life balance
• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
• Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, vacation, sick leave, and 403B retirement plan)

· COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements:

Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location.

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