Critical Care - Physician - Rapid Response Team - Manhattan, NY

The Institute for Critical Care Medicine of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY seeks dynamic fellowship-trained Intensivists to join its expanding team to attend on the Rapid Response Team at Mount Sinai Hospital! 

While working in conjunction with several consulting practitioners, as well as several other administrative staff members, the ideal candidates will play an instrumental role in ensuring excellent patient care, quality outcomes, and satisfaction as well as oversee other inpatient services. In addition, we would like our talented physician candidates to have a passion for academic, inpatient medicine and be fully committed to mission of Mount Sinai Health System. Candidates should be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine or Equivalent. 
 
The Rapid Response Team (RRT) attending physicians have clinical responsibility in a service that is dedicated to providing early intensive care style intervention in non-ICU patients in order to reduce their likelihood of needing to be transferred to an ICU and to reduce their overall morbidity and mortality. The RRT physician will be responsible to evaluate, treat and triage patients throughout the hospital in conjunction with the RRT NP, RRT respiratory therapist, Critical Care fellows and other health care providers (e.g., primary medical doctor, intensivists) as necessary.   Procedures that might be required at the bedside include ACLS, cardioversion, central venous catheterization, arterial line insertion, tracheal intubation, thoracentesis, chest tube insertion, paracentesis and lumbar puncture.  Excellent multidisciplinary skills, outstanding communication, flexibility and the ability to make decisions in a fast paced high risk environment are essential.

Successful applicants will be outstanding, highly collaborative clinicians, Board Certified or Board Eligible in Critical Care Medicine with a passion for acute care and a shared commitment to our academic mission. Outstanding communication skills, a high emotional intelligence, adaptability, and the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment are essential.

Mount Sinai offers a competitive salary and benefits package and academic appointment within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai commensurate with credentials and experience. Members of our team will play a central role in critical care education for our fellows-in-training and will have access to an expansive array of opportunities to pursue projects in clinical and translational research.

• Academic appointment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Highly competitive compensation package
• Outstanding collaborative and collegial work environment with a large, multidisciplinary intensive care group
• Opportunities for academic involvement in research and teaching

Initially, your duties include but are not limited to the following:

CLINICAL 

a. To provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based, critical care at Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) by investigating, diagnosing, and treating acutely ill patients. This may include performing treatments and procedures at the bedside, such as, airway maintenance/ intubation, bronchoscopy, cardioversion, point of care ultrasound, central line insertions, ACLS, and others in order to manage critically ill patients in the ICUs.

b. You will have clinical duties as a full-time intensivist. This may include both shifts in the ICU and on other critical care services. ICCM provides 24/7 intensivist coverage across Mount Sinai Health System. You will have an appointment as Assistant Professor. You will be a member of the Institute for Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital site, providing service for the Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Night Intensivist Coverage Service (NICS).

c. Full-time critical care faculty are responsible for 13 shifts per month with a combination of day and night shifts. Your monthly shift count will be allocated according to your critical care clinical effort. 

d. Write detailed medical records for all critical care services and procedures provided to patients and submit to Charge Capture in a timely manner. All notes must be in accordance with the MSHS Assurance and Compliance Services Department’s policies.

e. Achieve an annual work-relative value unit (wRVU) target based on billable critical care services and procedures. You may qualify for a productivity bonus if the wRVUs generated exceed your annual target. 

f. Once minimum monthly requirements are achieved, there will be an opportunity to work extra shifts for additional compensation. To receive payments for these additional shifts, you must complete Mount Sinai’s attestation form and submit it to the Administrator of the Department within five (5) business days of providing coverage for the per-diem session. Payment f