Hospitalist Physician - Duke University, Duke Regional, and Duke Raleigh Hospitals

Hospitalist Physician - Duke University, Duke Regional, and Duke Raleigh Hospitals

Hospitalist 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 responsibilities include:

• Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
• Making referrals for consultation when necessary
• Direct care planning
• Ordering medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
• Authorizing transfers
• Conducting risk assessment
• Determining readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care when appropriate
• Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans
• 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
• Completing 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
• Working to create a positive work culture within cross-departmental teams
• Aligning your work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives
• Performing other related duties incidental to the work described herein

Job eligibility requirements include:

• MD or DO graduate from an accredited medical school program and completion of an Internal Medicine Residency
• Unrestricted medical license issued by NCMB
• ABIM certification
• 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
• 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 in a cooperative, collaborative manner. Strong written and oral communication skills
• For clinician educators - strong clinical teaching skills

Job hours are 12 hour shifts, 192 shifts per year.

Job code: 00005512 Hospitalist Physician Job Level: K2

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