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 include, but are not limited to:

• Assessment, evaluation, diagnostic determination, ongoing treatment and clinical management, necessary referral for consultation, care planning and modification, medications/therapeutic orders, transfer authorization, risk assessment, and, when appropriate, determination of readiness and planning for discharge for inpatients at DUHS hospitals.
• Direct contact and consultation with patient family members, friends, advocates, and others to ensure effective communication of patient status and care plans, and to encourage/support an open visitor‑friendly environment within the medical/hospital environment.
• Extensive and ongoing communications with community primary care physicians who routinely manage the care of patients currently in the hospital.
• Day‑to‑day patient contact/rounding/care management that actively encourages and includes professional input from all members of the patient care team.
• Accurate and timely completion of all clinical and professional records and documentation to assure compliance with local, state and federal regulatory, licensure and accreditation requirements.
• Work to create a positive work culture within cross‑departmental teams and align this work with other Hospital Medicine initiatives.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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