Job Description
We are looking to hire a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician to diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation. An individual should also document examination results, treatment plans, and patient’s outcomes.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Assess characteristics of patients’ pain such as intensity, location, or duration using standardized clinical measures.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions such as medication or spinal injections.
- Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation including therapeutic exercise; speech and occupational therapy; counseling; cognitive retraining; patient, family or caregiver education; or community reintegration.
- Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities.