Medical Oncologist Opportunity by the Bay | UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco is looking for a 3-year fellowship-trained Hematologist Oncologist to staff one of its several affiliates in the Bay Area. This particular position will be for somebody interested in covering a broad range of malignant disorders including solid tumors, hematologic cancers and non-malignant (Classic) hematological problems. 

Clinical Responsibilities  

You will be responsible for providing comprehensive acute and chronic oncologic and hematologic care to patients, make judgments as to the appropriate specialty referrals and consultations, admit patients to the regional hospitals as necessary and refer to UCSF primary hospitals for tertiary/quaternary care as indicated. All care must be provided with maximum respect for the dignity of the patient and consideration of the cost of the care. 

A 100% FTE position will work eight (8) half-day (four hour) clinical sessions per week located at the Practice site; a less than 100% FTE position will work proportionally less. Productivity will be assessed by several factors: achievement of the annually established productivity standards using work RVUs (based on MGMA targets) and adjusted panel size. Additional metrics to assess performance include standards of excellence in patient satisfaction and quality metric targets as determined in collaboration with the Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and other UCSF clinical leadership. During your first year, these targets will take into account the necessary ramp up period of your new practice and will be adjusted accordingly and shared with you. We will allocate an additional 20% for administrative time to manage your patient panel at the clinical practice, participate in team activities and after-hours coverage in your full-time capacity.  

Patient Care  

• Provide professional physician services within your specialty. Engage in team-based Oncologic and Hematologic care delivery and work to provide care that is accessible, coordinated and comprehensive.  

• Communicate and collaborate with primary care providers, consultants, ancillary care providers, and other members of the medical care team to optimize care coordination for oncology patients.  

• Communicate and consult with the inpatient hospital team in the care of any patients who are admitted to hospital medical or surgical services.  

• Provide on-call coverage for weekends and after-hours phone advice, consistent with your clinical FTE.  You will make hospital rounds in rotation with others in your group. 

• Complete medical records on all patient encounters in a timely fashion consistent with UCSF policies.  

• Respond to questions and clinical updates via electronic and telephonic messages about and from your patients on the same business day but no later than the next business day.  

Administrative  

• Make recommendations and provide input to UCSF with respect to staffing and administration of the Practice, to the extent desired by Physician.  

• Abide by policies of the UCSF Health medical staff and the Division of Hematology-Oncology.  

• Clinical sessions which you may want to cancel must be rescheduled within 1-2 weeks of the missed session.  

• Participate in leadership of continuous quality improvement efforts and LEAN activities.  

• Engage in robust citizenship and support of the practice.  

Opportunity to spend a day a week in the City with the any of the varied specialty faculty 

• It is our goal to fully integrate our community physicians with the faculty and familiarize the faculty with our community physicians 

• To this end we offer our community physicians the opportunity at any of our specialty clinics at Parnassus or Mission Bay, seeing patients (which will contribute to physicians RVUs) and to have the opportunity to see what studies are open and to place patients on these trials