Hospitalist Physician

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Company: Wake Forest University

Location: North Wilkesboro, NC 28659

Description:

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 sub-specialties and health care personnel caring for hospitalized patients.
  • Attending and providing inpatient medicine consults and post-operative 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 post-acute 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 hand-off/sign-out 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 to 35% 65% 100% N/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

    About Us

    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

    Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

    This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

    About the Team

    Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

    Mission

    To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

    Vision

    To be the first and best choice for care.

    Culture Commitments

    We create a space where all Belong

    We Work as One to make great things happen

    We earn Trust in all we do

    We Innovate to better the now and create the future

    We drive for Excellence - always

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