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School Of Medicine MBUDepartment Internal Medicine
Duties & Responsibilities ------------------------
Mission or goal of unit At VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, our world-class team takes your heart health personally. Building on our history of innovation in patient care, scientific discovery, diversity, and collaboration, we improve cardiovascular care for all while continuously training the next generation of doctors.
Chief Purpose of this position The Cardiology Heart failure scholars program is to allow for inpatient inhouse coverage on the Cardiology units at night, 12 hours per day, 7 days per week. The Cardiology Hospitalist service traditionally has been a 2 person team of internists who support the Cardiology inpatient teams in the care of patients with multiple medical problems and to support the expansion of CV services. The Heart Failure Scholars will be part of this rotation, covering 1 week each in a 4 week rotation. In the remaining time, the scholar will rotate through efforts focused on clinical exposure to cardiology, heart failure, quality improvement, and research.
Teaching --------
To support teaching directly via interactions with Housestaff and non-physician professionals.
Research --------
To support clinical research protocols in recruitment and adjunctive clinical management, and to engage in scholarly activity.
Learner --------
Participate in learning activity on inpatient consult services and ambulatory settings focused on exposure to clinical heart failure.
Clinical --------
Anticipated clinical effort is 25%. The workload and time commitments are commensurate with the medical hospitalists - nocturnists duty hours will be 7 shifts per 4-week period of time. Duties to directly manage patients on the inpatient and observational Cardiology services, 12 hours overnight in a collaborative manner with the Cardiology faculty and Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). To provide Emergency Department consultations regarding Cardiology Admissions. To work collaboratively with Cardiology Attendings, Fellows, Residents, and APPs to assure a unified Cardiology plan is developed for each patient. Other duties include administrative tasks, submitting billing and document care as required by the organization, and abiding by all medical staff requirements. Participate in quality initiatives.
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Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Commensurate
FLSA Exemption Status ---------------------
Exempt
ORP Eligible -------------
No
Rank Open ---------
Contact Information -------------------
Contact Name: Michelle Carpenter Contact Email: michelle.carpentervcuhealth.org