HOSPITALIST PHYSICIAN - MULTIPLE LOCATIONS AVAILABLE

Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 1,048 licensed inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 65 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; a separate hospital outpatient surgical department with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. For 2021-2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke University Hospital nationally in 11 adult specialties: cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose & throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecology, neurology & neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also ranked first in North Carolina and first in the Raleigh-Durham area.

In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

HOSPITALIST PHYSICIAN

Job Summary

Hospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department are clinicians and/or clinician educators who provide clinical care for patients admitted at Duke University Health System hospitals. They support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice, as well as teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.

Job Locations Available

Hospitalist jobs are available at the following sites:

• Duke University Hospital
• Duke Regional Hospital
• Duke Raleigh Hospital

Work Performed

Hospitalists will engage in direct patient care activities and medical/clinical practice as the principal component of his/her overall professional responsibility within the Department. Patient care activities will include, but are not be limited to the following:

• Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
• When necessary make referral for consultation
• Direct care planning
• Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
• Authorize transfers
• Conduct risk assessment
• When appropriate, make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care.
• Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans, and to encourage/ support an open visitor-friendly environment within the hospital environment.
• Extensive and on-going communications with community primary care physicians who routinely manage the care of patients currently in your care within the hospital
• Day-to-day patient contact/rounding/care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the patient care team
• Completes all clinical and professional records and documentation accurately and in a timely manner to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.
• Work to create a positive work culture within cross-departmental teams
• Align your work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Technical - Clinical training and skills as mandated by the American Board of Internal Medicine for General Internal Medicine physicians
• Non-Technical - Ability to work with others i n a cooperative, collaborative manner.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• For clinician educators - strong clinical teaching skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Work requires a MD or DO from accredited medical program and completion of advanced graduate medical education in Internal Medicine with board eligibility or board certification in internal medicine.

Experience

Training experiences as mandated by the ABIM for board eligibility are required, clinical and teaching experience in an inpatient healthcare environment including experience in both large academic medical center and community hospital environments is preferred.

Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

Physician will maintain a current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina, federal and state prescriptive authority, and will obtain and maintain board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine in accordance with the Medical Staff Bylaws of the DUHS Hospitals.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

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Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.