Telemedicine ICU Intensivist - Nightshift Opportunity at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Campus

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Join Penn Elert's Command Center and Elevate Your Impact Across the University of Pennsylvania Health System
Are you an ICU physician seeking a dynamic and rewarding telemedicine opportunity? Penn Medicine's Elert® program invites you to join our onsite team as a tele-intensivist at the Penn Rittenhouse campus in Center City Philadelphia. This unique nightshift role places you in the heart of our state-of-the-art command center, where you will virtually monitor and advise on patient care across all ICU beds within the University of Pennsylvania Health System.


As a tele-intensivist, you will work alongside a multidisciplinary group of expert colleagues, including teaching attendings and fellow intensivists, delivering advanced clinical support to 26 ICU units spanning seven hospitals. Your clinical expertise will help manage variations in care, uphold system-wide clinical excellence, and ensure superior outcomes for patients in neuro, trauma, surgical, medical, cardiovascular, and other critical care units.


This role offers an exceptional platform for professional growth, especially for early-career intensivists. You'll develop wide range of clinical expertise while sharpening healthcare administration and leadership skills by guiding care throughout the health system and actively participating in quality improvement initiatives. Penn Elert empowers intensivist to leverage cutting-edge technology, trended data analysis, and collaborative teamwork to address evolving patient needs, avert clinical deteriorations, and foster innovation in critical care delivery.

Minimum Requirements

• Board-certified critical care Intensivist, ideally with a telemedicine subspecialty
• Strong decision-making, systems thinking, and computer literacy, including two-way remote AV communication
• Understanding of multidisciplinary critical care environments and ICU operations
• Visual acuity, keen hearing, clear speech, and manual dexterity; ability to sit or stand for extended periods
• Onsite presence required at Penn Medicine Rittenhouse campus; this is not a remote position

Benefits & Career Advancement

• Impact patient care across the entire University of Pennsylvania Health System
• Expand your clinical and leadership skills in a collaborative, innovative environment
• Advance your career within one of the nation's leading academic connected health centers
• Work with a multidisciplinary team and participate in system-wide quality improvement

Apply now to join Penn Elert and make a real difference in critical care medicine, while furthering your professional development and leadership in a premier academic health system. Interested candidates can apply online or email their CV to Alexandra Brindle, Penn Medicine Recruiter, at [email protected].
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.