Hospitalist/Intensivist
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Location: Dallas - Hospital
Additional Posting Details:
- 12-hour shifts to provide 24/7 coverage; holiday evenly split amongst the team
- Provider cannot be on-call or provide any other services aside from those listed above simultaneously under any other arrangement during the provider's 12-hour shift. This includes any existing agreement between SRC and any other entity that employs or contracts with the Provider separately to provide services to SRC
Duties/Responsibilities
- Provide exceptional medical care as a staff physician
- Provide high level pediatric acute and critical care clinical services to patients including, but not limited to:
- Performing and recording history and physical examinations
- Recording and interpreting pertinent patient data
- Developing, documenting, and executing a treatment plan
- Writing routine orders for appropriate laboratory studies, imaging, and consultations
- Performing patient/parent teaching
- Assisting with patient follow-up
- Performing appropriate screenings
- Administering medications as required
- Ordering and/or performing therapeutic and diagnostic procedures as indicated by patient findings
- Vent and airway management
- Nutrition management such as TPN
- Staff presurgical and multidisciplinary as needed
- Participate in research
- Supervise and teach medical students, residents, fellows and clinical team on the inpatient unit including advanced practice providers, nurses and respiratory therapists.
- Manage and participate in the call coverage schedule as assigned
- Develop, maintain and promote effective working relationships with other physicians and hospital staff
- Participate in staff meetings and hospital committees as requested
- Use hospital resources efficiently
- Abide by hospital regulations, bylaws, and policies
- Maintain good professional relationships with the broader medical community
- Provide professional pediatric hospitalist/intensivist services on-site for all patients admitted, under observation, or evaluated within the hospital
- Serve as the first responding physician for emergency services needed within the scope of practice.
- Coordinate non-emergency care, as needed, and consult with the appropriate on-call service for further direction
- Maintain effective communication regarding current status and treatment plans for all inpatients with the incoming team through daily progress notes and status reports
- This is not an all-inclusive list of this job's responsibilities. The incumbent may be required to perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school
- Must have completed an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited pediatric residency program
- Must have relevant work experience or completed fellowship training in pediatric critical care
- Must possess or be eligible for TX medical license
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification required
Working Environment
- Working conditions: Inside/Outside
- Working Position: Sitting/Standing/Walking
- Physical Demands: Medium
- Physical Requirements: Lifting/Carrying, Pushing/Pulling, and Stopping/Kneeling/Bending
- An Individual in this position will be required to list or carry weight in this group: 25-34 lbs
- Sensory/Communicative activities essential to the performance of this position: Feeling, Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Speaking
- An Individual in this position will be exposed to: Inside/Outside environment