Locum Physician Hospitalist

**Coverage Opportunity Overview:**

- **Practice Setting:** Hospital Call

- **Coverage Period:** December 1 2026 - June 30 2027

- **Shift Details:** - 12-hour shifts from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

- Weekly rotation: 7 on 7 off

- **Rationale for Coverage:** Recruitment Gap

- **Patient Load:** 16 inpatient cases per day

- **Support Staff Responsibilities:**

- Rounding and intermittent patient staffing

- Occasional code coverage

- Advanced Practice Provider (APP) support handles admissions

- **Current EHR System:** Cerner

- **Required Competencies:**

- Internal Medicine - Adult inpatient care (excluding ICU/CCU)

**Coverage Schedule:**- Weekly rotation: one week on one week off

- Specific shift dates and times include:

- December 1 2026 7 AM - 7 PM

- December 7 2026 - DecemberAM - 7 PM

- January 4 2027

**Shift Structure:**- Regular 12-hour day shifts (7 AM - 7 PM) covered every four weeks

- Transition to every other week starting December

- **Weekend Requirements:** Yes

**Requirements:**- **Board Certification:** Required

- **BLS and ACLS Certification:** Required

- **DEA:** Verbal confirmation required at name clearance

- **Background Check:** Clean background mandatory for expedited privileging

- **Licensure:** Active Michigan medical license required

- **Availability Notification:** Requested at name clearance

**Employee Health Mandates:**- **Flu Vaccine:** Required for the 2024-25 season

- **COVID-19 Documentation:** - If the 2024-25 booster has not been received a declination must be submitted- **Tuberculosis Testing:** - 2-step skin test within the last 12 months or Quantiferon within the last 6 months

- Completion of TB Questionnaire

- **Hepatitis B Immunization:** - Titer with quantifiable results or signed declination

- **MMR Immunization:** - Vaccine series or titers with quantifiable results

- **Varicella Immunization:** - Vaccine series or titers with quantifiable results

- **TDAP Immunization:** - Adult vaccine received within the last 10 years

**Certification and Licensure Requirements:**

- **Board Certification:** Mandatory

- **State License:** Must be valid in Michigan