Ophthalmologist #58770

Job Quick Facts

• Specialty: Ophthalmology
• Job Type: Locum Tenens
• Location: Baltimore, MD
• Coverage Period: May 20, 2024 - Ongoing
• Coverage Type: Clinical + Call
• Service Setting: Inpatient/Outpatient
• Reason For Need: Supplemental
• Shift Schedule: 3-4 days/week; 8:30a-4p
      - Varies from M-Th/M-W/T-F/T-Th
• Call Schedule: TBD
• Patient Volume: Ave. of 25 per day
• Patient Demographics: primarily 60+ yrs old
• Physicians in Practice:
      - Peds Ophthalmologist and Neuro Ophthalmologist.
• Support staff: Optometric Technicians (trained in retina), tester/photographer, glaucoma doc
• Duties:
      (Clinical): Surgeries in morning and see patients in afternoon for consultations.
      - Treating patients and consultants and resident training.; Every other Monday are surgeries.
      - Facilitate educational sessions with the residents on Thu and/or Fri.
      (Call): If there’s an after-hrs emergency, it goes to residents, then triage, then lastly to the specialist.
• Required Procedures/Skills:
      - Retina tares, ruptured globes.
      - Must be willing to work with residents and providing them educational sessions.
      - May scrub in w/ the cornea specialist but not a requirement.
      - Special Procedures: Retina
• EMR: Modernizing Medicine
• Travel, lodging, and malpractice insurance covered