Emergency Medicine - EMS Fellow (PRN Attending Physician) M89517

Position Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care within the emergency department supervising all trainees, non-licensed providers, and non-physician credentialed providers in the clinical areas.
• Provide efficient, high quality patient care that reflects current professional practice norms and skills and is consistent with accepted utilization guidelines.
• Documents each patient encounter with a timely, comprehensive note.
• Demonstrate professional and courteous behavior towards patients, department staff and members of the hospital community.
• Fulfill billing and coding responsibilities as defined in the scope of practice.
• Abide by department's operational manual, policies, and procedures.
• Abide by hospital rules and regulations, medical staff bylaws, credentialing requirements, and MCVH's policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate a willingness to fill uncovered shifts in addition to clinical commitment.

Teaching

• Participate in providing core curriculum lectures to medical students, interns and resident level trainees.
• As appropriate, participates in ACLS, PALS and ATLS courses.
• Provides bedside clinical teaching to all trainees with the Emergency Department.
• Participates in nursing, housestaff, medical student, advanced practice provider and paramedical educational programs.

Research

• Actively identify areas of interest and participate in Departmental research projects.

Administrative

• Attend department staff meetings unless on clinical duty.
• Participate in and adhere to quality improvement and utilization review activities.
• Participates in relevant marketing and public relations activities on behalf of the hospital and Emergency Department.
• Participates in appropriate medical staff and hospital committees as assigned.
• Completes, in a timely manner, all reports and requests for information from the Department Chair, Vice-Chair and the School of Medicine.
• When required, participates as a representative of the VCU Health System.

Qualifications

• Board Certified/Board Eligible in Emergency Medicine
• Active Virginia Medical license or ability to obtain
• Completion of an Emergency Medicine Residency within 3 years (if beyond 3 years of completing an accredited Emergency Medicine Residency program, must have completed 1500 hours of clinical activity in the past 3 years in an Emergency Department of comparable size, volume and patient acuity and can be waived at the discretion of the Chair)
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU.