Clinical Assistant Professor / Hospitalist

About the role

The Department of Hospitalist Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Clinical Assistant Professor (HS) / Hospitalist.

Responsibilities

• Admit adult "unassigned" patients (without a private attending in University Hospital of Brooklyn) from the Emergency Department, MICU and CCU according to the Hospitalist service schedules.
• Diagnose and treat different medical conditions in the adult hospitalized patients on their service.
• Collaborate with the nursing staff and social workers to make appropriate discharge arrangements for the patients admitted to their services.
• Provide consultations for preoperative patients and inpatients.
• Function as the Teaching Attending for the medical residents/student team for approximately eight months a year;
• Set and communicate expectations and provide individual performance evaluations.
• Mentor 2nd-year students on history taking and physical examination skills.
• Evaluate third-year medical students.
• Teach courses to the Medical Residents and Students.
• Participate in the Hospitalist Service meetings and perform various other hospital administrative tasks as assigned and/or required.

Qualifications

• New York State Medical Licensure.
• MEDICAL DOCTOR DEGREE OR EQUIVALENT.
• Full training in Internal Medicine.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Internal Medicine.