Description
Diagnose and manage a wide range of adult internal organ diseases, providing comprehensive, nonsurgical care for adults and older adolescents in outpatient clinics and hospitals; coordinate preventive care, chronic disease management, and acute illness treatment.
- • Diagnose and treat internal disorders, including hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, pulmonary, neurologic, renal, and gastrointestinal conditions.
- • Analyze histories, exams, labs, and imaging to establish and refine diagnoses.
- • Prescribe and manage medications, therapies, and evidence-based care plans.
- • Provide longitudinal primary care for adult patients in outpatient and inpatient settings.
- • Manage acute infections and complex, chronic, and multimorbid illnesses.
- • Monitor clinical status and adjust treatment based on response and guidelines.
- • Document and maintain accurate EHR notes, histories, orders, and results.
- • Perform diagnostic reasoning when presentations are atypical or multimorbid.
- • Explain diagnoses, test results, procedures, and treatment options to patients and families.
- • Counsel on lifestyle, nutrition, activity, mental health, and disease prevention.
- • Provide vaccinations and age-appropriate preventive screenings.
- • Coordinate care and refer to subspecialists or allied health professionals as needed.
- • Conduct preoperative evaluations and advise surgeons on perioperative risk and optimization.
- • Lead and collaborate with nurses, residents, advanced practice providers, therapists, and other staff.
- • Provide consultative services for complex medical issues and comanagement.
- • Plan and implement clinic or community health initiatives for prevention and chronic disease management.
- • Participate in quality improvement, population health, or clinical research activities.
- • Prepare required clinical summaries, compliance documents, and public health reports.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
