Physician (Medical Officer)
Company: Federal Bureau of Prisons
Location: Boston
Posted on: May 29, 2023
Job Description:
Why work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons?You can have a
meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse
workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry
level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety
by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment
in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry
programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform
correctional work regardless of their specific occupation. Duties
of a Medical Officer
- Serves as a Physician at a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) federal
correctional facility.
- Provides professional health care services for the federal
prisoners confined at facility.
- Performs complete physical examinations.
- Collects comprehensive medical and social history to include a
review of all body systems.
- Performs physical assessment in correlation with historical
findings, records preliminary objective findings.
- Examines and orders appropriate diagnostic testing and provides
necessary treatment and/or medications as required.
- Refers selected cases to consultant specialists when
necessary.
- Refers inmates requiring hospitalization to a community
hospital and to an appropriate admitting physician.
- Administers or directs administration of both curative and
preventative inoculations.
- Prescribes medications, treatments, and fully utilizes health
services for treatment, rehabilitative, and diagnostic
modalities.
- Assures proper maintenance of medical records, preparation of
reports, etc., as related to the area of responsibility.
- Makes recommendations on matters of policy, procedures,
training, personnel, and equipment as related to specific area of
responsibility
- Along with all other correctional institution employees,
incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security
of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities
precede all others required by this position and are performed on a
regular and recurring basis.
Keywords: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Boston , Physician (Medical Officer), Healthcare , Boston, Massachusetts
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