Hospitalist Physician

FLSA Status: Exempt Original Date: Last Revision: August 2019 

JOB SUMMARY:  We are seeking exceptional, BE/BC career Hospitalists to join our expanding team Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist - Wilkes Medical Center. 

• Must be MD/DO
• Three years Internal Medicine Residency required
• North Carolina licensure or eligible
• Schedule: week on/week off
• Educational and research opportunities
• Professional, collegial team environment
• Excellent benefits package

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to achieving diversity among its faculty and staff.

Number of hospitalist beds/census:  ____ patients 

WMC has an open ICU. Tele ICU with aICU available.

1. In addition to their core expertise managing the clinical problems of acutely ill, hospitalized patients, hospitalist is responsible for:
2. Admitting adult patients with medical problems for hospital stay.
3. Giving prompt and complete attention to all patient care needs including diagnosis, treatment, and the performance of medical procedures (within their scope of practice).
4. Collaborating, communicating, and coordinating with all physicians from other sub-specialties and health care personnel caring for hospitalized patients.
5. Attending and providing inpatient medicine consults and post-operative care to other medical and surgical specialties.
6. Employing quality and processing improvement techniques.
7. Conducting discharge planning and discharging patients.
8. Safely transitioning patient care within the hospital, and from the hospital to the community, which may include oversight of care in post-acute care facilities.
9. Efficiently using hospital and health care resources.
10. Training or supervising medical students, residents, and other health care professionals.
11. Responding to and managing any Rapid Responses or Codes
12. Assessing patients and developing appropriate plans as needed for any acute events of changes in patient status
13. Coordinating with nursing staff and responding to questions/concerns as needed
14. Providing appropriate hand-off/sign-out at the conclusion of their shift to the day team
15. Determine patients that require transfer to tertiary hospital and contacting PAL line to facilitate 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong interpersonal skills Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events) Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense Well organized Experience providing primary care and diagnostic services in a clinical setting Experience prescribing appropriate medications, treatments and health regimens to treat patient health issues Experience collaborating with specialists to explore patient health conditions and diagnose health issues Experience working in a team of healthcare professionals and collaborating with them to ensure positive, effective patient experiences with our organization 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Typical clinical setting PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 0% 35% 65% to to to 35% 65% 100% N/A Activity X Standing X Walking X Sitting X Bending X Reaching with arms X Finger and hand dexterity X Talking X Hearing X Seeing Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling: X 20 lbs. maximum X 50 lbs. maximum X 100 lbs. maximum

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opport