Nocturnist Physician

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. With 388 beds it is the second largest of Duke Health's four hospitals and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical, and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight‑loss surgery, women’s services, and heart and vascular services.

Hospitalist physicians in the Hospital Medicine Department are clinicians and/or clinician‑educators who provide clinical care for patients admitted at Duke University Health System hospitals, support surgical and specialty services through consultative general internal medicine practice, and teach staff, graduate medical trainees, and medical students on inpatient educational rotations.

Hospitalists will engage in direct patient care activities and medical/clinical practice as the principal component of their overall professional responsibility within the Department. Patient care activities will include, but are not be limited to:

• Clinical training and skills as mandated by the American Board of Internal Medicine for General Internal Medicine physicians.
• Ability to work with others in a cooperative, collaborative manner.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• For clinician educators, strong clinical teaching skills.

• Work requires an MD, DO, and completion of advanced graduate medical education in Internal Medicine with board eligibility or board certification in internal medicine.
• Training experiences as mandated by the ABIM for board eligibility are required; clinical and teaching experience in an inpatient healthcare environment, including experience in both large academic medical center and community hospital environments, is preferred.
• Physician will maintain a current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina, federal and state prescriptive authority, and will obtain and maintain board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine in accordance with the Medical Staff Bylaws of the DUHS Hospitals.
• Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy‑related conditions), sexual orientation or military status.
• Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes.

Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.