Permanent Hospitalist: Family Medicine Job in California
Qualifications:
- BLS and ACLS required
- Current CA and DEA license required
- Prefer 1-2 years experience as a Hospitalist
- Will accept FM and IM candidates
Location
- 220+ bed hospital
- Fantastic Southern California community of approx. 70000
- A few minutes to San Bernardino 45 to Palm Springs 60 to Big Bear Lake
The Hospitalist physician:
- Examines assesses diagnoses and treats the inpatients that are the responsibility of the group.
- Accepts admissions from the Emergency Room physician offices Extended Care Center and transfers from other facilities.
- Prescribes medications and treatment regimens appropriate for assessed medical conditions.
- Consults with and refers to specialists as appropriate.
- Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
- Responds to calls from the medical and surgical floors and the ICU for the group’s patients.
- Is not primarily responsible for ICU patients who are generally followed by other intensivists.
- Follows established policies procedures objectives continuous quality improvement objectives and safety environmental and/or infection control standards.
- Communicates directly and effectively with colleagues primary care physicians and transferring physicians to effect successful transfer of care with particular attention to weekends and holidays.
- Provides direct supervision of physician extenders that may be used in the hospital setting.
- Co-manages patients with the extender including assigning the panel for which the extender is predominantly responsible assessing their work and daily visits of shared patients.
- Will follow care guidelines in the hospital in the form of standardized hospital order sets and/or hospitalist manual.
- Will discharge patients when medically appropriate and utilize hospital case management and ancillary personnel to do this as efficiently as possible.
- Reports to director of hospital care and the Medical Director of the group.
- Participates in committee activities relevant to hospitalist care.
- Perform H & P for group’s Psychiatric Admissions.
- 7 on 7 off schedule 12 hour shifts
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