Emergency Medicine Physician

Assignment Overview:

• Start Date: Upon credentialing
• Assignment Length: Short-term
• Shift Need: 18 shifts needed ASAP
• Schedule: 12-hour shifts (days and nights)
  • 7:00 AM 7:00 PM
  • 7:00 PM 7:00 AM
• Providers must be open to covering both day and night shifts

Practice Setting:

• Acute Care Hospital
• Emergency Department
• Level III Trauma Center
• Collaborative MD and APC staffing model
• EMR: Cerner

Scope of Work:

• Provide full-scope Emergency Medicine coverage
• Evaluate, treat, and manage ED patients
• Perform procedures within EM scope of practice
• Collaborate with APC staff
• No responsibility for writing admitting orders

Volume & Support:

• Annual ED Volume: 23 000
• Patients per hour: 1.8
• 16 ED beds plus additional hall beds as needed
• APC coverage throughout the week with varying schedules
• No scribe services

Specialty Backup Available:

• Cardiology (noninvasive)
• Gastroenterology (weekday daytime)
• Gynecology
• Family Medicine / OB
• Orthopedics
• Neurology (onsite and 24/7 tele-neurology)
• Pulmonology
• General Surgery
• Optometry
• Nephrology

Requirements:

• Board Certification not required
• Active ACLS and PALS certifications required