Nephrology Physician

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
Active PA State License
DEA

Required:

Yes
Board Status:
Board Certified
Candidates must have completed a Nephrology Fellowship in addition to Transplant Nephrology Fellowship.
Required

Certifications:

BLS
Minimum Years Experience (if applicable): 1

SHIFT/SCHEDULE INFORMATION
M-F 8a-5p
Call 5p-8a
24hr Weekend call: 8a-8a

JOB INFORMATION
Typical Day:
If they are on IP service, they will round on either the acute or chronic service. The Chronic service is more like a medicine service, where the acute is rounds with surgery team. If they are not on Inpatient service, they would have about 3 outpatient clinics a week.
Candidate will work a UPMC Montefiore and UPMC Presby each day which are connected by a bridge.
There are two rounding inpatient services, one which is the F service, which is fresh post-tx patients, where we are co-primary with the surgical team. These are patients that are post-op from their surgery; on this service, the Transplant fellow takes the calls, and Attending will staff from home (during the week they are on service). Additionally, there is a C service, which is a service we consult on when transplant patients are admitted to the hospital with other maladies.

Generally, this service will field calls from ED/Hospitalist for advice on admitted patients. We have 1 attending assigned to each service per day. Kidney transplant biopsies are done daily (from 1-4/day) and reads are done with path same day candidates who are trained in this would be plus.
Outpatient work, estimate of 3 clinics a week. Once we have a candidate and can understand their experience level, we can better identify which clinics we would assign them to, but we do post-transplant clinic, pre-transplant eval clinic, wait list clinic, out-reach clinic, and living donor eval clinics. All current providers do 2-3 clinics a week (these cohort of clinics is divided up amongst the group).
Call:
Candidate will field calls from offsite;
Fellow will handle calls and then will call for guidance, if needed.
APP/Mid-Level Coverage Avail:
No
Will provider work solo? Yes
Other specialties on-site:
Surgery, other transplant services (hepatology, abdominal, liver), etc.
How recent are the transplants? Daily.
Are any surgical procedures a requirement:
Not required, but experience with biopsy is a plus.
Do they need OR experience? No- co-round with surg on F service.
5 transplant Nephrologist onsite
What is the patient census on the hospital of post-transplant patients? Varies, 80-90 transplants a year
Team of 35 general nephrologist
Dialysis Center visits not required
Adult 100%
EMR:
Epic