Job Information
Pottstown Clinic Company, LLC as part of Tower Health Physician, Hospitalist in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Pottstown Hospital
POSITION DUTIES
The Physician, Hospitalist Services will apply internal medicine education and training to provide exclusive inpatient or observation care to hospitalized adult patients in medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units and emergency rooms. Position entails providing generalist/primary care consultations, performing patient histories and physical examinations, diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of a range of complex and comorbid disease conditions, management and coordination of care throughout treatment, prescription of medication or treatment regimens to hospital patients, admission of patients for hospital stays, and referral of patients to specialists when necessary. More specifically, the Physician Hospitalist Services will perform preliminary interpretation of ECG and imaging studies, direct CPR, prescribe BiPAP or CPAP, and interpret results of (but not perform) testing and procedures (e.g., plain films, arthrocentesis, paracentesis, I&D abscess, pathology, and spirometry). The Physician, Hospitalist Services will perform arterial punctures and venipunctures and will actively participate in Unit Based Clinical Leadership model and structure.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENT
Must have Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree or foreign equivalent.
LICENSE/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT
Must have a Pennsylvania medical license
RESIDENCY/TRAINING REQUIREMENT
Completion of accredited 36-month medical residency program
SKILLS REQUIREMENT
Board Certified / Board Eligible in Internal Medicine
EMPLOYER CONTACT
Send CV to Swati Redhu, Tower Health, South Sixth Avenue and Spruce Street, M-325, West Reading, PA 19611 referencing REQ 413088.