SF VA Medical Center Hospital Medicine Faculty Full-time

SF VA Medical Center Hospital Medicine Faculty

Job Title: Career Hospitalist

Description: SFVA career Hospitalists enjoy diverse clinical roles including: supervision and teaching of residents and medical students including procedures on the general medical wards; co-management of medical issues for the surgical subspecialties combined with supervision and teaching of orthopedic surgery interns; staffing of the Veterans Integrated Perioperative Clinic; service on our Faculty Hospitalist Service; and weekend day shifts. Faculty may be asked to cover nocturnists shifts as needed up to 20%. All faculty members are involved in scholarly activities in: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education, Global Health and Clinical Health Services Research and Epidemiology. A full time hospitalist will work approximately 15.5 shifts per month.

Job Title: Hospital Medicine Nocturnist

Description: The SFVA Nocturnist's primary responsibilities are: supervision and teaching of residents and medical students overnight including all emergent procedures; admission of new patients; completion of overnight medical consultations and coverage of existing consult and co-management patients; assistance with code blues and rapid responses; triage of all medicine transfer requests and distribution and sign out of overnight admissions to the day teams in the morning. Clinical shifts are 8pm to 8am. A full time nocturnist will work approximately 12 shifts per month. You will also have the opportunity to attend on the daytime teaching service 2-4 weeks out of the year.

Job Title: Hospital Medicine + ICU Nocturnist

In this role, the ICU Nocturnist will: admit patients to the ICU and provide coverage for existing ICU patients; work with the overnight UCSF medicine residents to admit patients to the wards and assist in cross-covering medical ward patients; serve as the code blue leader and staff rapid response team calls; and triage all transfer requests to the ICU and wards. The average number of ICU admissions during the night shift is typically 2 per week, with an average ICU census of 5-7 patients. The number of ward admissions is split with the night medicine resident, and ranges from 1-3 per person per night. There are 13 shifts per month, from 7:30P to 7A.

Candidates must be US citizens and board-eligible/certified in Internal Medicine with excellent clinical and communication skills. Candidates must also have a valid US medical license. Applicants must also be eligible for appointment at the VA. The VA's basic qualification standards may be found at http://www.vacareers.va.gov/application-process/navigating/before-you-apply.asp.

Please apply online at [Please click the Apply button for the link or address]. Applicants' materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission.

See the VA's website for salary information: https://www.va.gov/OHRM/Pay/.