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Hospitalist Physician Opportunity

Facility is seeking a full-time Hospitalist Physician for a unique integrated clinical and academic faculty role. This position will function collaboratively as part of a core group of four academic hospitalists, working together to cross-cover hospital service and medical school responsibilities to ensure continuity, flexibility, and mission alignment across both clinical and educational domains.

50% Clinical Time Structured as one week per month of inpatient hospitalist service (7 consecutive 12-hour shifts; 84 hours total per service block)

50% Academic Time Dedicated protected time supporting undergraduate medical education across all four years of the medical school curriculum

This role is ideal for a physician passionate about academic medicine who values both high-quality inpatient care and active engagement in curriculum development, classroom teaching, and clinical education.

Clinical Responsibilities (50%)

• Provide comprehensive inpatient internal medicine care during scheduled service weeks.
• Manage adult admissions, consultations, observation patients, and transfers.
• Perform history and physical examinations, diagnostic evaluations, and treatment plans for hospitalized patients.
• Interpret laboratory data, imaging, and diagnostic studies to guide clinical decision-making.
• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and coordinate care with nursing, pharmacy, case management, and consulting specialists.
• Participate in discharge planning and transitions of care.
• Contribute to hospital quality initiatives including readmission reduction, sepsis management, length-of-stay optimization, and patient safety programs.
• Participate in hospital committees and quality improvement initiatives as appropriate.
• Serve as a clinical educator and professional role model for students during inpatient service.
• Preferred clinical experience may include ICU-level care exposure, procedural competency (e.g., paracentesis, central line placement, lumbar puncture), and ACLS proficiency.

Academic Responsibilities (50%)

• Pre-Clerkship (Years 12) - Lead and develop active learning sessions in foundational sciences with clinical integration.
• Facilitate small-group case-based learning.
• Serve as a clinical skills preceptor in history-taking, physical examination, and clinical reasoning.
• Teach pathophysiology correlations in organ-system blocks.
• Participate in simulation sessions, standardized patient encounters, and OSCE development.
• Contribute to longitudinal themes such as professionalism, systems-based practice, interprofessional education, and social determinants of health.
• Clerkship (Year 3) - Precept third-year students on inpatient internal medicine rotations.
• Provide bedside teaching, case discussions, and structured feedback.
• Assist in student assessment and narrative evaluations.
• Support remediation and early identification of students needing additional guidance.
• Advanced Clinical (Year 4) - Precept sub-internships and advanced electives.
• Mentor students preparing for residency in Internal Medicine or related specialties.
• Support transition-to-residency programming.
• Curriculum Development & Academic Leadership
• Contribute to development and refinement of curriculum across all four years.
• Assist in creating learning objectives, assessments, and evaluation tools aligned with LCME standards.
• Participate in academic committees and governance.
• Engage in educational quality improvement.
• Collaborate with faculty across specialties to ensure vertical and horizontal integration of content.
• Participate in faculty development initiatives.
• Engage in scholarly activity related to medical education, clinical innovation, or quality
• Required: NC license, BC/BE in Internal Medicine

Community/Facility info: An acute-care hospital offering quality care in open-heart surgery, home health and hospice, cancer treatment, maternity services, emergency medicine, pediatric intensive care, wellness programs in a thriving, diverse community of 300,000 residents. The city was honored by the National Civic League with its All-America City Award in 2001. The award recognized the collaboration between the city's public and private sectors to address and improve quality-of-life issues. Education plays a major role in the County. Our 84 primary and secondary public schools and many private schools offer educational choices in both religious and secular settings. A community college, a private liberal arts college and a state university round out the post-secondary educational opportunities.

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