Job Location Positions available at multiple hospitals within Duke Health System
Job SummaryHospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department are clinicians and/or clinician educators who provide clinical care for patients admitted at Duke University Health System hospitals. They support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice, as well as teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.
Job Duties and ResponsibilitiesHospitalists will engage in direct patient care activities and medical/clinical practice as the principal component of his/her overall professional responsibility within the Department. Patient care activities will include, but are not be limited to the following:
- Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
- When necessary make referral for consultation
- Direct care planning
- Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
- Authorize transfers
- Conduct risk assessment
- When appropriate, make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care.
- Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans, and to encourage/ support an open visitor-friendly environment within the hospital environment.
- Extensive and on-going communications with community primary care physicians who routinely manage the care of patients currently in your care within the hospital
- Day-to-day patient contact/rounding/care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the patient care team
- Completes all clinical and professional records and documentation accurately and in a timely manner to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.
- Work to create a positive work culture within cross-departmental teams
- Align your work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives.
- Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
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ob Eligibility Requirements Education- MD or DO graduate from an accredited medical school program and completion Internal Medicine Residency.
Licensure- Unrestricted medical license issued by NCMB.
- Federal and State DEA with unrestricted prescriptive authority
Certification- ABIM (ABIM board eligible recent or pending graduates may also apply)
Experience- Training experiences as mandated by the ABIM for board eligibility are required. Clinical and teaching experience in an inpatient healthcare environment including experience in both large academic medical center and community hospital environments is preferred but will consider new graduate.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities- Technical - Clinical training and skills as mandated by the American Board of Internal Medicine for General Internal Medicine physicians
- Non-Technical - Ability to work with others i n a cooperative, collaborative manner.
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- For clinician educators - strong clinical teaching skills.
Job Hours- 12 hour shifts, 192 shifts per year
