Fellow Physician Waco Family Medicine HPM Program (3528)

## Description
**PRIMARY DUTIES:**

• Provide supervised hospice and palliative medicine care as an integrated member of the hospice interdisciplinary team across inpatient, outpatient, and home- based hospice settings.
• Perform comprehensive symptom assessment and management for patients with serious and life-limiting illness, including pain, dyspnea, nausea, anxiety, depression, and delirium.
• Participate actively in hospice operations, including longitudinal patient assignments, interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings, and coordination of care across disciplines.
• Conduct goals-of-care discussions, advance care planning, and end-of-life conversations with patients and families.
• Complete required hospice clinical and regulatory documentation, including EHR documentation and death certificates, under supervision.
• Participate in joint home visits with hospice physicians and members of the interdisciplinary team (nursing, social work, chaplaincy, etc.).
• Serve in a consultative role to support primary teams with complex medical decision-making, prognostication, and ethical considerations.
• Engage in structured teaching activities, case presentations, and scholarly or quality improvement projects related to hospice and palliative medicine.

**PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:**

• visual and auditory accuracy
• indoor setting
• shift length - 8 hours
• frequent use of computer
• frequent standing and walking
• extensive sitting
• frequent telephone usage
• continuous conversational communication
• continuous repetitive grasping and manipulation of both hands
• occasionally working in confined, noisy areas
• occasionally lifting and carrying up to 50 lbs
• occasionally pushing, pulling and positioning patients up to 200 lbs
• occasionally pushing, pulling and positioning (with assistance) patients over 200 lbs
• occasional exposure to electrical, chemical, gaseous and dusty conditions
• occasional exposure to patients with communicable diseases
• understand/carry out simple/detailed, oral/written instructions
• memorize and retain instructions
• read and interpret detailed specifications
• able to respond quickly and calmly in medical emergencies

## Qualifications
**Fellow Physician, Waco Family Medicine – HPM Program**
**REPORTS TO**: WFM – Hospice & Palliative Medicine Program Director, Attending Physicians
**EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE**

• M.D. or D.O. degree from accredited school
• Completion of a residency in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, or Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Board eligible or certified in primary specialty
• Eligible for medical licensure