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Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Job description
### Locums | OB/GYN Call Coverage | Pocatello, ID (ID License or IMLC)
### Why This Role
Support a busy inpatient obstetrics service with approximately 1,100 annual deliveries, a Level III NICU, and onsite maternal-fetal medicine resources. This is an ongoing call-coverage need supporting both routine and high-risk obstetrical care.
### Assignment Details
- Start date: As soon as credentialed
- Assignment status: Ongoing
- Additional coverage is anticipated monthly
- Exact upcoming dates have not been provided
- Call-only assignment
- Inpatient setting
- Weeknight and 24-hour call shifts
- Typical weeknight call: 5:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.
- Beeper call with a 30-minute response time
- Epic EMR
- Approximately 5–6 patients seen daily
- Approximately 3–5 phone consultations daily
- Approximately 1–3 call-backs daily
- Approximately 2–3 admissions daily
- 10-bed department
- No APP supervision or teaching responsibilities
- Temporary privileges may be available
- Credentialing may be completed in approximately 45 days after receipt of a complete medical staff application
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Clinical Environment
Approximately 1,100 deliveries annually
Level III NICU
High-risk antepartum patients are retained onsite
Maternal-fetal medicine resources available through an onsite clinic
Three to five RNs and two office staff members
OB/GYN provides clinical support for patients who may initially be evaluated by family medicine residents
### Required Skills
Low- and high-risk pregnancy management
Fetal heart rate interpretation
Level I and Level II obstetrical ultrasound
Amniocentesis
Vaginal and cesarean deliveries
Low-forceps delivery
Breech and multiple-birth management
Placental abruption management
VBAC management
Repair of third- and fourth-degree lacerations
### Preferred Skills
Minor laparoscopic gynecologic surgery
Major operative gynecology, including ectopic pregnancy and ovarian procedures
### Requirements
Board-certified or board-eligible in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Active Idaho medical license or IMLC eligibility
Current competency in routine and complicated deliveries
Comfortable managing high-risk antepartum and emergency obstetrical patients
Hospital privileges
Ability to provide weeknight and 24-hour call coverage