Physician - Hospital Medicine

Duke Careers•Durham, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Duke Health, we are committed to compassionate care that positively impacts patients, their families, and the community. Duke Regional Hospital, located in Durham, North Carolina, is a 388-bed facility and the second largest of Duke Health's four hospitals. It provides a comprehensive array of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services. Hospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department serve as clinicians and/or clinician educators, delivering clinical care to patients admitted to Duke University Health System hospitals. They offer consultative general internal medicine practice to support surgical and specialty services, and also educate staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students during 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.
Clinical training and skills as mandated by the American Board of Internal Medicine for General Internal Medicine physicians
Ability to work with others in a cooperative, collaborative manner.
Strong written and oral communication skills

Nice To Haves

Clinical and teaching experience in an inpatient healthcare environment
Experience in both large academic medical center and community hospital environments
Strong clinical teaching skills (for clinician educators)

Responsibilities

Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, on-going treatment and clinical management of patients
When necessary make referral for consultation
Direct care planning
Order medications and therapeutic treatments when warranted
Authorize transfers
Conduct risk assessment
When appropriate, make determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients in your care.
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.