Overview
If it's possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite Physicians to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Hospitalist team at Atrium Health - Albemarle, NC.
Atrium Health's Carolinas Hospitalist Group in Albemarle, NC is searching for an experienced hospitalist to join our team.
Position details include:
- Work schedule: 7:00 am - 7:00 pm, 7 on/7 off
- 100% inpatient adult medicine
- Internal Medicine Board Certified
Just an hour east of Charlotte, Albemarle, NC offers a beautiful downtown in the heart of Stanly County. Albemarle has an abundance of recreational activities, local food scene, cultural delights and community. This town is perfect for those who enjoy outdoor activities as it boasts beautiful state parks and wineries.
Job Summary
The physician is a patient-centered, system-oriented teammate who manages the care of all patients within their primary practice/clinical setting. The physician leads an interdisciplinary team to perform assigned clinical duties, while displaying the highest standards of ethical and moral conduct as well as acting in the best interest of Atrium Health, supporting our mission, vision and values.
Essential Responsibilities/Functions:
- Performs medical history, physical examinations, routine assessments and determines treatment plan for patients.
- Documents all patient encounters, records observations, interventions, and actions in a timely and medically appropriate manner on the patient's medical record.
- Acts as a patient and family advocate for the population served.
- Participates in continuous quality improvement priorities, service delivery processes and service excellence initiatives.
- Adheres to access & productivity policies & protocols to ensure that patients' access to convenient care is optimized.
- Adheres to standards and care protocols to deliver appropriate, innovative and cost-effective care management in-person and virtually.
- Actively and regularly participates in the assigned meetings/committees.
- Models Atrium Health Core Values.
- Adheres to Medical Group Minimum Work Standards.
Core Competencies:
- Patient Care: Ability to provide patient-centered care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
- Medical Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical and cognate (epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: Ability to investigate and evaluate patient care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and improve their patient care practices.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Ability to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, families and professional associates.
- Professionalism: Ability to demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
- Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate an awareness of and responsibilities to the larger context and system of health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.
Education, Experience and Certification:
- Degree of MD or DO from accredited medical school.
- Board Eligibility in a clinical discipline is required; Board Certification in a clinical discipline is required within three years of start date/contract effective date; Once obtained, Maintenance of Certification is required.
PATIENT POPULATION SERVED:
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and possesses the ability to respond to age specific issues and data reflective of the patient's status. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the following age groups:
- Neonate
- Infant
- Child
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Geriatric
PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION:
Will limit access to protected health information (PHI) to the information reasonably necessary to do the job. Will share information only on a need-to-know basis for work purposes. Access to verbal, written and electronic PHI for this job has been determined based on job level and job responsibility within the organization. Computerized access to PHI for this job has been determined as described above and is controlled via user ID and password.
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