Position Overview
Orthopaedic Physician Assistant
Job Supervisory Responsibilities: May direct the clinical support staff with direct patient care.
General Summary: Responsible for practicing orthopaedic medicine with or without physician medical supervision.
Minimum of two years orthopaedic experience required.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Performing comprehensive and problem focused history and physical exams.
- Interpret and correlate laboratory and diagnostic procedures, subjective and objective data to formulate a differential diagnose and establish a working diagnosis.
- Formulate a treatment plan for Orthopaedic problems within scope of practice.
- Implement therapeutic intervention for specific conditions when appropriate.
- Exercise judgment on problems requiring consultation, referral, or evaluation by the supervising Orthopaedic surgeon or other health care professionals.
- Order, collect, and perfor...