Physician, Hospitalist

Job Summary

The Physician, Hospitalist Services will apply internal medicine education and training to provide exclusive inpatient or observation care to hospitalized adult patients in medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units and emergency rooms. Position entails providing generalist/primary care consultations, performing patient histories and physical examinations, diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of a range of complex and comorbid disease conditions, management and coordination of care throughout treatment, prescription of medication or treatment regimens to hospital patients, admission of patients for hospital stays, and referral of patients to specialists when necessary. More specifically, the Physician Hospitalist Services will perform preliminary interpretation of ECG and imaging studies, direct CPR, prescribe BiPAP or CPAP, and interpret results of (but not perform) testing and procedures (e.g., plain films, arthrocentesis, paracentesis, I&D abscess, pathology, and spirometry). The Physician, Hospitalist Services will perform arterial punctures and venipunctures and will actively participate in Unit Based Clinical Leadership model and structure.

Qualifications

Education Requirement:

Must have Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree or foreign equivalent.

License/Certification Requirement:

Must have a Pennsylvania medical license

Residency/Training Requirement:

Completion of accredited 36-month medical residency program

Skills Requirement:

Board Certified / Board Eligible in Internal Medicine

Overview

Number of positions open: Multiple

Work Hours: 1.0 FTE (fifteen 10-hour shifts per month)

To Apply:

Send CV to Swati Redhu, Tower Health, South Sixth Avenue and Spruce Street, M-325, West Reading, PA 19611 Referencing REQ 216485.