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About the Role

Provides emergency surgery/trauma call coverage, including assessment, surgery, consultation, rounding, and follow-up of patients. Fosters teamwork and communication among all internal and external constituencies.

Responsibilities

• Provides in-house services as scheduled by the Medical Director or designee.
• Serves as the attending physician for his/her own patients in the SICU and serves as a consultant when requested.
• Assists the attending and/or consultant physician in the management of patients in the SICU.
• Evaluates and stabilizes patients in emergent situations in the SICU until an attending or consultant physician can be contacted and/or arrives.
• Directs the management of patients until the attending or consultant physician assumes responsibility.
• Evaluates patients in the Medical Center for potential admission to the SICU.
• Evaluates hospitalized patients who have become unstable and are considered for transfer to the SICU.
• Responds immediately to assist in the care of critically ill patients anywhere in the Medical Center as requested.
• Supervises and assists house staff in the evaluation and management of team care patients.
• Provides call coverage for all Emergency Department and transfer hotline general surgery consults and admissions.
• Provides inpatient management of general emergent or urgent general surgery patients along with outpatient follow up.
• Provides In-House trauma coverage for Emergency Department and transfer hotline.
• Provides inpatient management of trauma patients along with outpatient clinic follow up.

Requirements

• Graduate of a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
• Current NCCPA certification.
• NYS licensed with certification.
• DEA registration required for those with discharge responsibilities.
• BLS/ACLS/AED training required and accepted from only 1 organizations: American Heart Association - BLS/ACLS from AHA.

Skills

• Physician Assistant Certified (PA-C)

Work Type

• Rotating schedule with AM and PM shifts

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree required
• Masters Preferred

Salary/Compensations

• USD $71.98 - USD $93.00 /Hr.