Surgery - General Physician

Surgery - General Physician at ProLocums summary :

The role involves providing general surgical services with a focus on both inpatient and outpatient care, particularly during holidays and weekends. The physician will be expected to handle unassigned emergency department calls and consult on inpatients, collaborating with general surgery PAs and attending hospitalists. This position requires board certification, with a typical patient load of 0-3 per shift and limited rounding responsibilities.

Specialty : gen surg

Dates Needed : potentially all holidays and holiday weekends

Start Date : End Date : 1 / 1 / 24 for urology (maybe) and first holiday after that for gen surg

Practice Setting : Outpatient : Inpatient : Telehealth : IP / ED call

Admissions Required : yes

Is hospital stroke certified : primary stroke center

Does Provider need to be Board Certified : yes, unless within 5 years out

Are Temp privileges available : yes

Do you only want to see CV s with and Active License : preferably, but open to others

Coverage Type : No Call : Call Only : Scheduled Clinic Hours / Call : call only

How many Patients will Locum see per day : Likely 0-3

Is there rounding : Yes : No : only if one of their patients is admitted

Avg. patients they round on? 0-3

Patients per shift : depends on the call

How many calls do they get while on call? 2-4

Call Details : Assigned : Unassigned : Both : unassigned ED

Call Type : In-House : Beeper : 2nd Call / Backup : beeper

Avg. call # per 24-hr : Phone Consults : Patients Seen : Admissions : maybe 4

How many hours does it take to Round : Less than 4

How many times do they get called back in a 24-hour shift : 0-2

It s 7a-7a, a 24 hour shift. We have 6 general surgeons who will be covering their own patients, so this would only be for unassigned / ED patients.

Surgery only, no endoscopy.

May need to consult on inpatients. Fully hospitalist and ICU attending coverage, so they would only be consultants.

We have general surgery PAs who are in house the majority of the time.

OPEN DATES :

May 15, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31

Keywords :

General Surgeon, Surgery, Inpatient Care, Outpatient Care, Emergency Department, Consultation, Board Certified Physicians, Healthcare, Hospital Privileges, Urology