Nocturnist - Farber Institute for Neurosciences at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College
About The Position
The Farber Institute for Neurosciences at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University is recruiting Board-Certified or Board-Eligible Nocturnists in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine to join a growing, academically focused hospitalist team. This role supports the medical co-management and consultative care of neurosurgical patients as clinical faculty within the Farber Hospitalist Division of the Department of Neurological Surgery. This is an excellent opportunity for physicians interested in complex inpatient medicine, interdisciplinary collaboration, and academic engagement—without ICU management responsibilities.
Requirements
- MD or DO
- Board-Certified or Board-Eligible in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
- Strong inpatient medicine and clinical decision-making skills
- Comfort leading emergency response teams
- Interest in teamwork, teaching, quality improvement, and patient safety
- No prior expertise in neurology or neurosurgery is required.
Responsibilities
- Provide overnight medical cross-coverage and consultative care for neurosurgical patients
- Manage 15–30 cross-coverage patients per night
- Handle approximately 4–6 new patient encounters per shift (admissions and consults)
- Participate as team leader during code blue and rapid response events
- Collaborate closely with neurosurgery, neurology, APCs, residents, and interdisciplinary teams
- No ICU patient management responsibilities
- NG tube placement required on occasion
- Intermediate and step-down level care management
- Pre-operative assessment and peri-operative medical optimization
- Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives
- Clinical research and scholarly activity
- Leadership and faculty development programs
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- $2,000 annual CME allowance
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Malpractice insurance provided
- Academic appointment in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine with a secondary appointment in Neurological Surgery, commensurate with experience
- medical (including prescription)
- supplemental insurance
- dental
- vision
- life and AD&D insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- flexible spending accounts
- retirement plans
- tuition assistance
- voluntary benefits
- tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
