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:

1. Performing comprehensive and problem focused history and physical exams.
2. Interpret and correlate laboratory and diagnostic procedures, subjective and objective data to formulate a differential diagnose and establish a working diagnosis.
3. Formulate a treatment plan for Orthopaedic problems within scope of practice.
4. Implement therapeutic intervention for specific conditions when appropriate.
5. Exercise judgment on problems requiring consultation, referral, or evaluation by the supervising Orthopaedic surgeon or other health care professionals.
6. Order, collect, and perfor...