Physician - Radiology
Beckley, WV 25801
| Specialty | Radiology |
|---|---|
| Profession | Physician |
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Review exam requests for appropriateness.
- Prescribe exam protocols and modify as needed for specific clinical indications.
- Provide oversight of technical image quality with feedback to technologists.
- Provide clinical oversight of medication administration, including contrast,
- Preps and other medications relevant to the Imaging Service.
- Provide oversight and serve as a resource for infection control practices.
- Participate in MRI safety, Radiology Quality Assurance committees and other committees as necessary.
- Interprets imaging exams including relevant exam comparison and correlation with clinical information in CPRS. Generate reports that contain pertinent findings and measurements, a description of normal and abnormal structures, discussion of differential diagnoses, recommendations, and impression.
- Utilizes abnormal diagnostic codes appropriately and communicates/documents verbal notification of results when required.
- Support patient care services with reports timely to the care being delivered with the method of communication appropriate to the level of clinical importance or acuity.
- Interact with patients to obtain relevant clinical history and physical exam findings within the scope of radiology practice, provide education to patients and support, obtain informed consent, issue disclosures when appropriate, document in CPRS, enter orders in CPRS, and other aspects of physician practice.
- Overseeing clinical operations and ensuring compliance with regulations and standards.
- Providing leadership and guidance to medical staff, including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals using Appropriateness Criteria by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
- Assisting in the development and implementing clinical policies and guidelines to ensure the highest standard of care.
- Adhering to safety regulations when using medical imaging technology. (This will be direct supervision of radiation exposure in the delivery of health care)
- Preferred, but not required, the person would possess the skills of reading virtual colonoscopies and cardiac angiographies.
