Physician Assistant
Pubblicato il 14-09-2026 - Orthocincy in Firenze
Full-time
Description
Position Requirement: Must have Orthopaedic Experience*
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:
- Performing comprehensive and problem focused history and physical exams.
- Interpret and correlate laboratory and diagnostic procedures, subjective and objective data to formulate a differential diagnose and establish a working diagnosis.
- Formulate a treatment plan for Orthopaedic problems within scope of practice.
- Implement therapeutic intervention for specific conditions when appropriate.
- Exercise judgment on problems requiring consultation, referral, or evaluation by the supervising Orthopaedic surgeon or other health care professionals.
- Order, collect, and perform appropriate laboratory or diagnostic procedures, and studies including but not limited to blood and tissue specimens.
Ordering or performing diagnostic studies such as but not limited to EMG, electrocardiogram, compartment pressure measurements, and x-ray examinations including special x-ray examinations CT, MRI, and bone scans etc.
- Performing procedures such as but not limited to, digital blocks, regional anesthesia, and minor outpatient surgical procedures such as but not limited to: tendon repair, wound closure, wound management, wound debridement, incision and drainage, needle biopsy, percutaneous pinning of fracture, k-wire removal and hardware removal.
- Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including but not limited to joint and bursa aspirations, closed reduction of fractures and dislocations, injections of joints, tendons, trigger points and bursa, as well as brace, cast, and splint applications.
- May assist in surgery to include but not limited to first assist, deep and superficial tissue closures, app