HC Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine Physician

Mount Desert Island Hospital•Bar Harbor, ME

28d

About The Position

Summary: The Internal Medicine/Geriatric Medicine Physician provides high-quality, patient-centered health care in alignment with the values of the community and the mission of Mount Desert Island Hospital Organization (MDIHO). The Physician delivers comprehensive primary care across all care settings—including office, hospital, nursing facility, and home-based environments—while ensuring continuity, safety, and compassionate service. Within the scope of a negotiated employment agreement, the Physician is responsible for conducting complete history and physical examinations; performing age-appropriate and condition-specific screenings; diagnosing and managing acute and chronic illnesses; providing preventive care and patient/family education; coordinating care with interdisciplinary teams; and delivering telephone and electronic follow-up. The Physician will assess, stabilize, and manage urgent medical issues, ensuring safe transfer to higher levels of care when necessary. The Physician provides clinical supervision and backup support to advanced practice providers within the clinic and hospital settings, fostering a collaborative and effective care team environment. Expectations include adherence to organizational clinical standards, participation in quality and performance improvement initiatives, and engagement in practice operations in partnership with the Vice President of Physician Practice & Ancillary Services. This includes contributing to workflow optimization, panel management, access improvement, and the delivery of value-based, mission-driven care.

Requirements

Board Certification.
Credentialed by the MDI Hospital Medical Staff to practice Internal Medicine.
Maintains membership in the Active Medical Staff at MDI Hospital in good standing.
DEA certified.
BLS and ACLS certified.
Five years of post residency clinical practice preferred.
Emotional maturity and excellent communication skills required.
Ability to work with distressed or anxious patients or family members.
Ability to take in, process and apply clinical information in a wide variety of patient care situations.
Ability to learn new techniques and incorporate them, through a new finding, into current practice.
Ability to process and interpret complex information.
Ability to stand/walk for up to eight hours per day, bend, stoop, twist, assist patients in rising from exam table, push wheelchair patients, and assist patients in rising from and returning to wheelchair.
Able to perform under stress.
Potential for exposure to blood and body fluids.
Potential for exposure to infectious diseases.

Nice To Haves

Five years of post residency clinical practice preferred.

Responsibilities

Conducting complete history and physical examinations
Performing age-appropriate and condition-specific screenings
Diagnosing and managing acute and chronic illnesses
Providing preventive care and patient/family education
Coordinating care with interdisciplinary teams
Delivering telephone and electronic follow-up
Assessing, stabilizing, and managing urgent medical issues, ensuring safe transfer to higher levels of care when necessary
Providing clinical supervision and backup support to advanced practice providers
Adherence to organizational clinical standards
Participation in quality and performance improvement initiatives
Engagement in practice operations in partnership with the Vice President of Physician Practice & Ancillary Services
Contributing to workflow optimization, panel management, access improvement, and the delivery of value-based, mission-driven care