Family Medicine Hospitalist- Liverpool

• Expected
  
  Hours:
  
  Full-time hours (1.0 FTE)
• Estimated Annual Salary:
  To Be Determined
• Zone:
  Western Zone
• Specialization:
  Family Practice
• Type of Remuneration:
  Daily Rate
• Incentive Programs Available:
  Yes

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Queens General Hospital (QGH) in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, has an opportunity for a family medicine physician to join our Hospitalist Service to provide inpatient care one to two weeks per month.

Our physician team feels a significant degree of responsibility for the facility and our team dynamic. We are a close-knit team thatworks diligently to nurture the supportive and welcoming culture we have created over time. If you need help here, you’ll gethelp—we are committed to each other. The entire medical community here values a team-based approach to medicine that spans roles and specialties,and the combination of that teamwork and our modernized facilities makes it possible for us to keep our friends and neighbors in our community with emphasis on avoiding transfer wherever possible.

Among themore common presentations on our medical floor are:

• COPD and heart failure exacerbations
• End-of-life/palliative care
• Decompensated cirrhosis
• Post-surgical rehabilitation
• Behavioral and psychosocial symptoms of dementia
• Sepsis

Most of our physicians currently performing hospitalist work split their scheduled week between the medical floor and their family practice, so most weeks we have two hospitalists splitting the patient roster. However, we are interested in speaking with physicians who are willing to provide either solo or split coverage.
Physicians managing the QGH Hospitalist Service are expected to:

• Coordinate patient care and lead a multidisciplinary inpatient team
• Participate in twice-weekly team rounds and other quality improvement and evaluation activities
• Manage the medical needs of 20-26 inpatients throughout their respective hospitalizations (on average, this will make for around an eight-hour shift per day)
• Facilitate patient transfers to facilities with higher levels of care if medically indicated
• Coordinate appropriate community-based care upon discharge, if necessary

• ensure the delivery of comprehensive primary health care services to patients of all ages and stages of health or illness
• be accountable for appropriate workload and practice
• continuum of patient care with health care providers within your practice and/or community
• provide care and coordination of community-based care, secondary and tertiary level heath care
• operate within the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations of Nova Scotia Health Authority
• work in collaboration with other team members in the hospital to best suit the community’s health needs
• participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities
• utilize an electronic medical record (EMR) and record all relevant patient details in a provincially approved EMR which is accessible to all collaborating team members

• permanent, full or part time available
• weekly hours: 7 days on/7 days off
• 46/52 weeks per year
• Be available for overnight calls from nursing staff caring for inpatients under your care
  • Call may be taken from the physician’s residence
  • Expected response time from notification to arrival on site is twenty minutes
  • The vast majority of calls do not require in-person intervention; however, the physician must be available if a patient’s presentation makes it necessary
  • Depending on roster size and…