Family Medicine Doctor

Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care.
Position Overview
The physician is responsible for providing medical assessment and treatment for patients (defined by licensing and regulatory standards), at clinical sites at which the physician is assigned. The physician is expected to function as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, treating patients with eating disorders and related or comorbid medical conditions. The physician will serve patients in a gender-inclusive environment of all ages and across multiple levels of care. Further, the physician shall serve as a resource to the medical and behavioral treatment teams around best-practice medical care.
Schedule
M-F 8am-5pm. Can be flexible on FTE/Schedule depending on candidate
Compensation Disclosure
Starting Salaried Range: $250,000.00 - $315,000.00
Final Compensation offered will be within pay range based on qualifications/experience met for the position
How Therapists Empower Recovery
Provide direct medical services through the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients, including appropriate exam, work-up and the prescription of medications and other interventions as indicated.
Evaluate, diagnose, and treat medical complications of eating disorders, as well as intercurrent conditions, for patients at the different levels of care offered at the facility. Frequency of visits should be dictated by clinical need, and facilitate appropriate medical care for the clinical severity and in accordance with direction from site/regional medical leadership
Develop the medical treatment plans of all assigned patients and update with each visit
Provide regular supervision to ancillary medical providers
Liaise by telephone with each patient’s ambulatory provider, at a minimum, at admission, discharge and as needed during treatment in the context of significant concerns
Liaise with families of patients as indicated
Work with the Utilization Review team to provide medical information to support the facilitation of peer-to-peer insurance reviews, determination of appropriate levels of care, arbitration of clinical appeals, etc
Participate in staff conferences and education, and serve on clinical committees as assigned
Participate in program development with site/regional medical leadership as interested and assigned
Maintain license and uphold all board certification requirements
Perform all assigned supervision requirements as needed if on-site collaborating physician
Complete all documentation in a timely manner
Participate in call schedule
Perform other duties as assigned or identified
Qualifications
Education Qualifications:
Must be currently licensed to practice medicine in the state of employment.
MD or DO
BC/BE in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or Adolescent Medicine
Possession of a current medical license in the state where the physician will practice
Current unrestricted DEA license
Completion of an accredited residency program in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, or Pediatrics
Professional Qualifications:
Previous eating disorders experience is preferred, but not required
Two or more years of previous independent practice, with an emphasis in adolescent medicine, complex medical condition, and/or psychiatric settings, to include experience with eating disorder patients
Other Qualifications:
Employees at Residential or Inpatient sites are required to have a current Basic Life Support certification within 30 days of hire
Employees at Residential or Inpatient sites in North Carolina or Georgia are required