We are seeking Pulmonary Critical Care Physicians for ongoing locum coverage across multiple hospitals in Colorado. This is a high-acuity inpatient opportunity covering Level I, II, and III Trauma facilities, with approximately 30 shifts per month.
Assignment Details
- Pulmonary Critical Care / Intensivist coverage
- Each physician is assigned to only one facility per 12-hour shift
- Maximum of 7 consecutive coverage days
Schedule
- Day coverage: 7:00 AM 7:00 PM
- Day shifts include inpatient rounding
- Night coverage varies by location:
- Level I Trauma site: 7:00 PM 7:00 AM in-house
- Level II Trauma site: 7:00 PM 7:00 AM offsite pager call
- Level III Trauma site: 7:00 PM 7:00 AM offsite pager call
Practice Setting
- Inpatient Pulmonary Critical Care
- Level I, II, and III Trauma hospitals
- 48 ICU beds listed
- Epic EMR
- Onsite laboratory and X-ray
Clinical Responsibilities
- Inpatient Pulmonary and Critical Care management
- ICU rounding and management
- Mechanical ventilation management
- Invasive ventilation, including ETT/NT/tracheostomy
- Non-invasive ventilation, including BiPAP/CPAP
- Diagnostic bronchoscopy
- Bronchoscopy with BAL
- Chest tube insertion
- Central line insertion
- Arterial line insertion
- Thoracentesis
- Therapeutic bronchoscopy with foreign-body extraction
Critical Care Responsibilities
Physicians should be comfortable managing high-acuity medical ICU patients, including:
- Cardiac arrest/failure
- Respiratory arrest/failure
- Sepsis
- Metabolic disorders
- Renal failure
- Overdose/poisoning
- Other critically ill medical patients
- Pre- and postoperative surgical patients, including general, vascular, orthopedic, neurological, and cardiovascular/thoracic cases
Additional preferred procedures include PA catheter insertion, dialysis catheter placement, diagnostic/therapeutic taps, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis.
Team Structure
- Approximately 20 Pulmonologists in the group
- Approximately 10 APPs in the group
- Other Pulmonologists are onsite with the locum at the Level I and Level II locations
- No other Pulmonologist is onsite with the locum at the Level III location
Requirements
- Pulmonary Critical Care Physician
- Recent Level I Trauma experience required
- Must be comfortable independently managing ICU patients
- Critical Care/Intensivist experience required
- Proficiency with required pulmonary and Critical Care procedures
- Epic experience required
Ideal Candidate
A Pulmonary Critical Care physician with recent Level I Trauma experience who is comfortable managing high-acuity ICU patients and independently performing advanced pulmonary and Critical Care procedures. Physicians with strong Epic experience and the flexibility to rotate among multiple Colorado facilities are particularly desired.
