Hospitalist - Hospital Medicine Physician -Clovis
Job at a glance
Job description
This is a significant Hospital Medicine opportunity across day, swing, and night coverage.
The program welcomes both Internal Medicine and Family Medicine physicians with strong inpatient/Hospital Medicine experience. Candidates should be comfortable managing medically complex patients, step-down patients, admissions, cross-cover responsibilities, and Rapid Response events.
No procedures are required.
Job Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive inpatient Hospital Medicine care.
Perform daily patient rounds.
Manage new admissions and inpatient consultations as assigned.
Respond to Rapid Response events.
Facilitate ICU-to-floor transitions.
Provide medical consultations for patients admitted under specialty services.
Provide day, swing, and nocturnal cross-cover.
Manage medically complex and step-down patients.
Conduct family meetings and communicate treatment plans effectively.
Provide approximately 6–7 admissions per nocturnist shift, as assigned.
Manage overnight cross-cover responsibilities for a large inpatient census.
Use Epic EMR for patient documentation and clinical management.
Collaborate with specialists, nursing, case management, and other members of the care team.
Qualifications
MD or DO.
Board Certified or Board Eligible in:
Internal Medicine, or
Family Medicine
Board Eligible candidates accepted within 5 years of residency.
Active ACLS certification required.
Active state medical license required to begin the MSO file; California licensure is not required at the initial file-opening stage.
Recent inpatient/Hospital Medicine experience.
Comfortable working in a high-volume inpatient environment.
Comfortable managing medically complex and step-down patients.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Comfortable conducting family meetings and discussing treatment plans.
Recent ventilator-management experience.
Must be able to provide ventilator-management logs from the previous 24 months.
Epic EMR experience preferred.
Working Hours
Shift Hours Positions Primary Role
MD/DO Day Rounder 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM 13–14 Daily rounding
MD/DO Admitter 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM 1 Admissions, consults, ICU-to-floor, Rapid Response
MD/DO Swing 1 1:00 PM – 1:00 AM 1 Admissions / cross-cover
MD/DO Swing 2 3:00 PM – 3:00 AM 1 Admissions / cross-cover
MD/DO Nocturnist 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM 2 Admissions / cross-cover / Rapid Response
Skills
Internal Medicine
Family Medicine – inpatient experience
Inpatient acute-care medicine
Observation medicine
Hospital admissions
Cross-cover
Rapid Response
ICU-to-floor transitions
Step-down patient management
Medical consultations
Ventilator management
Family meetings and treatment-plan discussions
Epic EMR
High-volume inpatient care
Multidisciplinary collaboration