Job Description
Join a dynamic hospital laborist program delivering comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic care in a busy acute care setting. You will provide 12 and 24 hour coverage for labor and delivery, perform a full spectrum of OB/GYN procedures, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure safe outcomes for mothers and babies. Flexible shift options accommodate both day and overnight schedules.
Key Details
- Assignment Type: Locum Tenens
- Setting: Hospital
- Start Date: ASAP
- Schedule: 12 hour and 24 hour shifts (day and night coverage)
- Patient Population: Adult
- Location: Modesto, CA
Benefits
- Weekly direct deposit
- Malpractice insurance with tail coverage
- Supportive credentialing assistance
- Lodging and mileage reimbursement (if applicable)
- Flexible scheduling (optional if applicable)
Job Responsibilities
- Provide laborist coverage for obstetric deliveries, including routine vaginal births, forceps-assisted deliveries, and cesarean sections.
- Manage high risk obstetric scenarios such as breech presentations, multiple births, abruptions, and complex C sections.
- Perform fetal heart rate monitoring and interpret NST, CST, and FSE findings.
- Conduct OB ultrasounds (Level I screening and Level II targeted) and document findings.
- Repair third and fourth degree perineal lacerations.
- Deliver office/minor gynecologic procedures: IUD insertion/removal, cystoscopy, colposcopy, cryosurgery, LEEP.
- Perform surgical gynecology, including open procedures, laparoscopic diagnostic/minor cases, and operative cases such as ectopic pregnancy management, oophorectomy, and cystectomy.
Qualifications
- Board certified OB/GYN (minimum board certification required).
- Successful completion of a 1 year OB/GYN fellowship (preferred).
- BLS and PALS certifications current.
- Ability to obtain credentialing within 90 days.
- Experience with low risk pregnancies required; high risk pregnancy experience preferred.
Working Hours
- 12 hour or 24 hour shifts covering labor and delivery units.
- Expect 10-15 patient encounters per shift, including deliveries, ultrasounds, and procedural care.
Skills
- Low risk pregnancy management, routine and assisted vaginal deliveries.
- Decision making for cesarean delivery and management of complicated deliveries (breech, multiple gestations, abruptions).
- Fetal heart rate monitoring interpretation (NST, CST, FSE).
- OB ultrasound acquisition and interpretation (Level I & II).
- Repair of third and fourth degree perineal lacerations.
- Proficiency in office gynecologic procedures (IUD, colposcopy, LEEP, etc.).
- Surgical competence in open, laparoscopic, and operative gynecologic cases.
