Heart Failure Scholar & Nocturnist | Department of Internal Medicine | M67392 (SOM)

Commonwealth of Virginia
Richmond
Full-time

Mission or Goal of Unit : At VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, our world-class team takes your heart health personally. Building on our history of innovation in patient care, scientific discovery, diversity and collaboration we improve cardiovascular care for all, while continuously training the next generation of doctors.

Chief Purpose of this position : Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is seeking a BC / BE Internal Medicine physician to participate in a one year clinical and scholarly program.

The Cardiology Heart failure scholars program is to allow for inpatient in-house coverage on the Cardiology units at night 12 hours per day 7 days per week.

The Cardiology Hospitalist service traditionally has been a 2 person team of internists who support the Cardiology inpatient teams in the care of patients with multiple medical problems and to support the expansion of CV services.

The Heart Failure Scholars will be part of this rotation covering 1 week each in a 4 week rotation. In the remaining time, the scholar will rotate through efforts focused on clinical exposure to cardiology, heart failure, quality improvement and research.

Position Responsibilities :

Teaching To support teaching directly via interactions with Housestaff and non-physician professionals.

Research To support clinical research protocols in recruitment and adjunctive clinical management and to engage in scholarly activity.

Learner Participate in learning activity on inpatient consult services and ambulatory settings focused on exposure to clinical heart failure.

Clinical Anticipated clinical effort is 25%. The workload and time commitments are commensurate with the medical hospitalists - nocturnists;

duty hours will be 7 shifts per4-week period of time. Duties : to directly manage patients on the inpatient and observational Cardiology services 12 hours overnight in a collaborative manner with the Cardiology faculty and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs).

To provide Emergency Department consultations regarding Cardiology Admissions. To work collaboratively with Cardiology Attendings, Fellows, Residents and APPs to assure a unified Cardiology plan is developed for each patient.

Other Submit billing and document care as required by the organization. Abide by all medical staff requirements. Participate in quality initiatives.

Required Qualifications :

  • Candidates should be BC / BE in Internal Medicine
  • Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications :

  • Clinical and scholarly interest in a career in heart failure
  • 30+ days ago
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