SF VA Medical Center Hospital Medicine Faculty

Job Title: Career HospitalistDescription: SFVA career Hospitalists enjoy diverse clinical roles including:supervision and teaching of residents and medical students including procedures on the general medical wards; co-management of medical issues for the surgical subspecialties combined with supervision and teaching of orthopedic surgery interns; staffing of the Veterans Integrated Perioperative Clinic; service on our Faculty Hospitalist Service; andweekend day shifts. Faculty may be asked to cover nocturnists shifts as needed up to 20%. All faculty members are involved in scholarly activities in: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education, Global Health and Clinical Health Services Research and Epidemiology. A full time hospitalist will work approximately 15.5 shifts per month.2)

Job Title: Hospital Medicine NocturnistDescription: The SFVA Nocturnist's primary responsibilities are: 1) supervision and teaching of residents and medical students overnight including all emergent procedures; 2) admission of new patients; 3) completion of overnight medical consultations and coverage of existing consult and co-management patients; 4) assistance with code blues and rapid responses; 5) triage of all medicine transfer requests and 6) distribution and sign out of overnight admissions to the day teams in the morning. Clinical shifts are 8pm to 8am. A full time nocturnist will work approximately 12 shifts per month. You will also have the opportunity to attend on the daytime teaching service 2-4 weeks out of the year.3)

Job Title: Hospital Medicine + ICU NocturnistIn this role, the ICU Nocturnist will: 1) admit patients to the ICU and provide coverage for existing ICU patients; 2) work with the overnight UCSF medicine residents to admit patients to the wards and assist in cross-covering medical ward patients; 3) serve as the code blue leader and staff rapid response team calls; and 4) triage all transfer requests to the ICU and wards. The average number of ICU admissions during the night shift is typically 2 per week, with an average ICU census of 5-7 patients. The number of ward admissions is split with the night medicine resident, and ranges from 1-3 per person per night. There are 13 shifts per month, from 7:30P to 7A.Candidates must be US citizens and board-eligible/certified in Internal Medicine with excellent clinical and communication skills. Candidates must also have a valid US medical license. Applicants must also be eligible for appointment at the VA. The VA's basic qualification standards may be found at. Please apply online at. Applicants' materials must list current and/or pending qualifications upon submission. See the VA's website for salary information:.