Hospitalist - Internal Medicine

Physician (Hospitalist)

The incumbent serves as a Physician (Hospitalist) at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, Tuba City, Arizona, which involves performance of medical care services for adult patients in the hospital. Examines, diagnoses, and treats hospitalized patients. Manages patients through the continuum of hospital care; orders treatments, tests, and consults with specialty physicians and primary care physician where appropriate.

Qualifications

Necessary Qualifications

Education:

• Medical Degree, MD or DO
• Completion of a three (3) year residency program in Internal Medicine
• Board Eligible or Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine

License:

Must possess and maintain a current and unrestricted license to practice as a physician in any state within the United States, District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Credentialing:

Additional credentialing/privileging qualifications required for membership to the Medical Staff

Other Skills and Abilities:

A record of satisfactory performance in all prior and current employment as evidenced by positive employment references from previous and current employers. All employment references must address and indicate success in each one of the following areas:

• Positive working relationships with others
• Possession of high ethical standards and no history of complaints from co-workers or patients
• Reliable and dependable; reports to work as scheduled without excessive absences
• Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to optimize the care of our inpatients
• Successful completion of and positive results from all background and reference checks, including positive employment references from authorized representatives of past and current employers demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC a record of satisfactory performance and that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
• Successful completion of fingerprint clearance requirements, physical examinations, and other screenings indicating that the applicant is qualified to be employed by TCRHCC and demonstrating to the satisfaction of TCRHCC that the applicant can perform the essential functions of the job
• Submission of all required employment-related documents, applications, resumes, references, and other required information free of false, misleading, or incomplete information, as determined by TCRHCC.

Mental and Physical Effort

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical: Must be able to walk several hundred yards quickly, stand, sit, bend, maintain balance, as well as occasionally climb, kneel, crouch, twist and reach. Must write well, hear well (for cardiac examinations) and see well for complete diagnostic skills. Must have ability of far vision, near vision, color vision, depth perception, seeing fine details, hearing normal speech, hearing overhead page and telephone use. Must be able to continually lift up to 10lbs and occasionally push and pull up to 10lbs. Must have ability of simple/firm grasping and fine manipulation of both hands as well as use of keyboard. Mental: Must be able to perform night call on a regular basis and handle the stresses of rural medicine with critically ill patients. Must be able to continuously cope with high levels of stress, make decisions under high pressure, cope with anger/fear/hostility of others in a calm way, concentrate, handle high degree of flexibility, handle multiple priorities in stressful situation, work alone, demonstrate high degree of patience, adapt to shift work and work in areas that are close and crowded. Must accept flexible schedule to meet unit needs. Environmental: May continually be exposed to infectious diseases.