PHYSICIAN - NEURO - HOSPITALIST

About the role

Examines, diagnoses, and treats hospitalized patients. Manages patients through the continuum of hospital care, seeing patients in the ER and following them into the critical care unit and organizing post-acute care. Orders treatments, tests, and consults with specialty physicians and primary care physician where appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Orders treatments, tests, and consults with specialty physicians and primary care physician where appropriate.
• Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge skills.
• Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support services.
• Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
• Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
• Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
• Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
• Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiography (x-rays).
• Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
• Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
• Admit patients for hospital stays.
• Travel between multiple hospitals locations as needed.

Requirements

A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
• Four (4) or seven (7) years of internship and residency training, pertaining to specialty.
• Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
• Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.

Skills

Essential – Absolute Necessity. Marginal – Minimal Necessity. Constantly – 5.5 to 8 hours or more or 200 reps/shift. Frequently – 2.5 to 5.5 hours or more or 32-200 reps/shift. Occasionally – 0.25 to 2.5 hours or 2-32 reps/shift. Rarely – Less than 0.25 hours or less than 2 reps/shift.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Incumbent will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.). Travel may be expected locally between System locations.