Nocturnist @ DRAH

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

84d•Onsite

About The Position

Duke Health is committed to compassionate care that changes lives. The Duke Raleigh Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the third largest of the four Duke Health hospitals with 204 beds. It offers comprehensive services including cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, advanced gastrointestinal, and wound healing care. Hospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department provide clinical care for patients admitted to Duke University Health System hospitals. They support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice and teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.

Requirements

MD or DO graduate from an accredited medical school program and completion Internal Medicine Residency.
Unrestricted medical license issued by NCMB.
Federal and State DEA with unrestricted prescriptive authority.
ABIM (ABIM board eligible recent or pending graduates may also apply).
Training experiences as mandated by the ABIM for board eligibility are required.
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 in a cooperative, collaborative manner.
Strong written and oral communication skills.
For clinician educators - strong clinical teaching skills.

Nice To Haves

Clinical and teaching experience in an inpatient healthcare environment including experience in both large academic medical center and community hospital environments is preferred but will consider new graduate.

Responsibilities

Engage in direct patient care activities and medical/clinical practice.
Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients.
Make referral for consultation when necessary.
Direct care planning.
Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted.
Authorize transfers.
Conduct risk assessment.
Make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care when appropriate.
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.