Job Description
Job Quick Facts:
- Ref #: BD-114-22
- Profession: Physician
- Specialty: Internal Medicine / Family Medicine
- Location: Williamsburg, VA
- Service Setting: Inpatient
- Facility Type: Hospital
- Start Date: ASAP
- Contract Length: 3 months (with option to extend 3 -6-month)
- Shift Schedule: 40 hours per week, Mon-Fri (8:00am-5:00pm)
- Psychiatry coverage is provided
Requirements:
- Active VA License
- 3+ more years as a Physician
- Experience working with adult admissions or geriatric admissions and acute and chronic health management of adult and geriatric populations.
- Comfortable working on admissions work up and potential rapid turnover
- Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary treatment team
- BLS Healthcare Provider certification is required Position Details:
- Facility Hospitalizations: Acute, Adult, Inpatient wards (male & female)
- Facility Demographics: Forensic, NGRI, Civil, Jail Transfer, and Geriatric populations
- Facility Stay : Short and Long-term length of stay
- Caseload varies by ward and assignment (40-45)
- Full complement of interdisciplinary team members
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for patient care that includes examination, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of medical illnesses for adult and geriatric psychiatric inpatient population.
- Serves as medical consultant to the attending psychiatrist/practitioner.
- Completes admission medical assessments (including history and physical examinations, mental status examination) and entering admission orders.
- Orders diagnostic/therapeutic tests and procedures.
- Monitors patients' progress, including laboratory values and special procedures with appropriate follow-up or referrals as needed
About AdeIphi MedicaI Staffing:
Adelphi Medical Staffing is a nationwide recruiting firm that focuses on sourcing locums, per diems, travel nurses and allied health, and non-clinical professionals for private and government facilities. We aim to place skilled providers in facilities where they can provide the most value while contributing to both providers and facility growth and success.For our providers, our recruiters are committed to supporting your requests, ensuring that you're compensated at market value, and ensuring you are placed where you can build your career while maintaining a constant line of communication with updates along the recruitment process. At Adelphi, it is not just about filling vacancies but providing opportunities to expand and achieve your professional goals. Adelphi is rapidly becoming the premier choice in staffing, as we daily add numerous job opportunities for our professionals and provide you with the best option for your next career step. For our clients, we understand the widespread shortage of healthcare and skilled workers who can provide high-level care and output, and that is why we promise to provide our clients with the best-fit candidates for their facilities. As we provide our recruitment and placement services, we recognize the importance of relationships in the industry and aim to maintain a successful and long-lasting working relationship with our clients and the people they serve