Locums Anesthesiology Float Pool Opportunity - Burlingame, CaliforniaPosition Overview
Specialty: Anesthesiology
Location: Burlingame, California
Assignment Type: Locums
Start Date: 01/11/2027
Contract Length: 26+ weeks
Coverage: Full-time preferred
Minimum Availability: At least 2 weeks per month
Practice Setting: Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Center Float Pool
Availability & Schedule
Schedule: Variable shifts
Shift Structure: No fixed 8-hour or 10-hour shifts
Coverage Model: Providers will float between inpatient hospital OR coverage and outpatient ambulatory surgery center coverage.
Important: There is no option for outpatient-only work. Providers must be comfortable floating from high-acuity inpatient cases to outpatient cases.
Licensure & Certification Requirements
California Medical License: Active California medical license required
DEA: Active California DEA with Schedule II authorization required
Board Certification: Board Certified in Anesthesiology required
Board Eligibility: Truly Board Eligible candidates may be considered, particularly those with fellowship training
BLS: AHA BLS required
ACLS: AHA ACLS preferred
Clinical Experience Requirements
Recent Anesthesiology Experience: Minimum 2 years
Practice Experience: Recent experience with both inpatient and outpatient surgical cases required
Solo Practice: Recent experience practicing independently/solo is required
Tertiary Care: Recent tertiary care or medical center experience required
Patient Acuity: Experience with high-acuity patients, generally ASA III+, required
Trauma: Trauma experience strongly preferred
Regional Anesthesia: Strongly preferred but not required
CRNA Experience: Experience working with or supervising CRNAs preferred
Teaching Hospital: Teaching hospital experience preferred
Chronic Pain: Candidates with predominantly chronic pain practice experience are not a fit
Clinical Responsibilities
- Provide anesthesia coverage for inpatient and outpatient surgical cases
- Float between hospital and ambulatory surgery center locations
- Primarily practice independently in the operating room
- Occasionally supervise CRNAs
- Provide general anesthesia
- Perform occasional regional anesthesia
- Manage high-acuity inpatient cases as part of the float pool
- Transition between inpatient and outpatient assignments as needed
Case Mix
Patient Population: Adults and adolescents age 13+
Anesthesia: Primarily general anesthesia with occasional regional anesthesia
Patient Acuity: High acuity, primarily ASA III+
Excluded Cases:
- Cardiac
- Liver
- Neurosurgical
Practice Details
EMR: Epic
Setting: Hospital OR and Ambulatory Surgery Center
Coverage Model: Multi-location float pool
Providers must be comfortable working across both inpatient and outpatient environments and transitioning between different levels of acuity throughout the assignment.
Key Opportunity Highlights
- Burlingame, California
- Locums Anesthesiology
- October 19, 2026 start
- 26+ week assignment
- Full-time preferred
- Minimum 2 weeks per month
- Variable shifts
- Hospital + Ambulatory Surgery Center
- No outpatient-only option
- Must float between high-acuity inpatient and outpatient cases
- Active California medical license required
- California Schedule II DEA required
- BC Anesthesiology required; truly BE candidates may be considered
- AHA BLS required
- AHA ACLS preferred
- Minimum 2 years recent Anesthesiology experience
- Recent solo practice required
- Recent tertiary care experience required
- ASA III+ patient population
- Trauma experience strongly preferred
- Regional anesthesia experience preferred
- Epic EMR
- No cardiac, liver, or neurosurgical cases
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