Hospitalist Clinical Adjunct Faculty WMC
Hospitalist Clinical Adjunct Faculty WMC
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
FLSA Status: Exempt Original Date: Last Revision: August 2019
JOB SUMMARY: We are seeking exceptional BE/BC career Hospitalists to join our expanding team Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Wilkes Medical Center.
- Must be MD/DO
- Three years Internal Medicine Residency required
- North Carolina licensure or eligible
- Schedule: week on/week off
- Educational and research opportunities
- Professional collegial team environment
- Excellent benefits package
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to achieving diversity among its faculty and staff.
Number of hospitalist beds/census: patients
WMC has an open ICU.Tele ICU with aICU available.
- In addition to their core expertise managing the clinical problems of acutely ill hospitalized patients hospitalist is responsible for:
- Admitting adult patients with medical problems for hospital stay.
- Giving prompt and complete attention to all patient care needs including diagnosis treatment and the performance of medical procedures (within their scope of practice).
- Collaborating communicating and coordinating with all physicians from other subspecialties and health care personnel caring for hospitalized patients.
- Attending and providing inpatient medicine consults and postoperative care to other medical and surgical specialties.
- Employing quality and processing improvement techniques.
- Conducting discharge planning and discharging patients.
- Safely transitioning patient care within the hospital and from the hospital to the community which may include oversight of care in postacute care facilities.
- Efficiently using hospital and health care resources.
- Training or supervising medical students residents and other health care professionals.
- Responding to and managing any Rapid Responses or Codes
- Assessing patients and developing appropriate plans as needed for any acute events of changes in patient status
- Coordinating with nursing staff and responding to questions/concerns as needed
- Providing appropriate handoff/signout at the conclusion of their shift to the day team
- Determine patients that require transfer to tertiary hospital and contacting PAL line to facilitate
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong interpersonal skills Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events) Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense Well organized Experience providing primary care and diagnostic services in a clinical setting Experience prescribing appropriate medications treatments and health regimens to treat patient health issues Experience collaborating with specialists to explore patient health conditions and diagnose health issues Experience working in a team of healthcare professionals and collaborating with them to ensure positive effective patient experiences with our organization
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Typical clinical setting PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 0 35 65 to to toN/A Activity X Standing X Walking X Sitting X Bending X Reaching with arms X Finger and hand dexterity X Talking X Hearing X Seeing Lifting carrying pushing and or pulling: X 20 lbs. maximum X 50 lbs. maximum X 100 lbs. maximum
Employment Type
Full-Time
