Locums – Charlottesville, Virginia, OB Hospitalist Job

Locums – Charlottesville, Virginia, OB Hospitalist Job

Start Date: ASAP/12/14/2026

Position Overview

• Practice Setting: Hospital

• Coverage needed while the team recruits a full-time permanent OB/GYN physician.

• Potential for up to full-time coverage.

• Primarily caring for established OB/GYN patients.

• Local candidates will receive first consideration.

• Potential for future outpatient coverage.

Schedule & Coverage Details

• Inpatient Call: 24-hour shifts, 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

• Call is in-house and restricted to the hospital.

• Preference for providers who can cover full weeks of call when needed and several consecutive days at a time.

• Flexible scheduling based on provider availability; the more coverage available, the better.

• Up to full-time coverage may be available.

Potential Outpatient Coverage

• Office coverage may be available during provider vacation weeks.

• Clinic schedule, if interested:

• Tuesdays and Thursdays

• 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

• Established OB patient returns and same-day visits only.

Call Responsibilities

• Primarily care for established practice patients.

• The practice covers approximately six unassigned ED visits/admissions per month; locums may be scheduled for some of these.

• The hospital also requires unassigned call coverage for patients presenting through the ED who are not established patients of the practice

• When covering without a CNM, the locum serves as first call and provides full call coverage.

• When serving as backup for a CNM, the locum's call is unrestricted.

• For coverage longer than four days, a CNM may cover portions of the schedule, with the locum serving as backup.

• When a CNM is not present, there is no additional physician or APP support; nursing support is available on the Labor & Delivery floor.

Practice & Facility Details

• Average Deliveries: Approximately 20 per month, with anticipated growth to 40+ deliveries per month.

• NICU: Level II

• EMR: Epic

• Operating Rooms:

• 1 Labor & Delivery OR

• 4 main OR rooms

• C-sections are typically performed in the Labor & Delivery OR.

Support Staff

• 1 front-office staff member

• 2 nurses

• 1 manager

• 1 assistant practice manager

• 1 sonographer

• CNM support available for portions of longer coverage assignments.

Required Procedures & Clinical Skills

• Full-scope inpatient OB/GYN care.

• Vaginal deliveries.

• Cesarean deliveries.

• Circumcisions.

• Hysteroscopy.

• Surgical management of missed and incomplete abortions.

• Hysterectomy.

• Ovarian cystectomy.

• D&C with or without suction.

• Surgical management of OB/GYN emergencies.

• Hospital-based call coverage.

Preferred Procedures

• Emergent GYN cases (rare).

Requirements & Credentialing

• Board Certification in OB/GYN

• Active Virginia medical license

• Virginia DEA

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