Hospital Rounder- Nocturnist

MAPMG•Silver Spring, MD

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG) is seeking a Hospital Rounder-Nocturnist at Holy Cross Hospital. MAPMG is a physician-led group of over 1,800 physicians in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., exclusively serving Kaiser Permanente patients. MAPMG physicians earn competitive salaries and are supported by a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) for coordinated care. The group focuses on long-term health, prevention, and effective disease management, with a commitment to research and advancing best practices.

Requirements

MD or DO
Board Certified or Eligible in Internal Medicine
Currently licensed or able to obtain licenses in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia

Responsibilities

Provide overnight inpatient medical care, including admissions, consults, cross-coverage, rapid clinical assessment, and management of acutely ill hospitalized patients.
Evaluate the appropriateness of hospitalization for newly admitted patients and collaborate with the Emergency Department, consultants, and care management to ensure patients receive care in the most appropriate setting, including consideration of Advanced Care at Home (ACAH) and other alternative care pathways when appropriate.
Coordinate overnight specialty consultations, respond to urgent clinical issues, and facilitate safe transitions of care through comprehensive handoffs to the daytime Hospital Medicine team.
Support patient throughput, utilization management, and quality initiatives by ensuring timely admissions, appropriate level-of-care decisions, and efficient care coordination.
Practice independently overnight while working collaboratively with nursing, consultants, and the broader Hospital Medicine team to provide safe, high-quality, patient-centered care for inpatient patients as well as providing cross coverage for some of our core SNFs.
Attend Codes and Rapid response to provide medical support for Kaiser patients.
Provide medical support for Kaiser patients during Codes and Rapid Response events.
Cover shifts in the KP observation unit (extended monitoring unit) at advanced urgent care centers.