Emergency Medicine Physician

Emergency Medicine Physician at MPLT Healthcare summary :

The Emergency Medicine Physician works in a stand-alone emergency department in a frontier-type community, operating 24-hour shifts with limited support. This role involves overseeing emergency cases, managing patient admissions, and performing resuscitations, while also relying on tele-ED support during the night. The doctor is primarily responsible for patient care in an environment with a low inpatient census and significant annual emergency department visits.

• 24-hour in-house shift
• Ongoing
• Doc needs to be comfortable working super alone in a frontier-type community
• Only ED doc curing the shift, 1 nurse and a tech on during the day and just a nurse on at night
• Have 24 / 7 hospitalist coverage, who help with ED admits and codes
• ED doc runs the codes with the nurse there
• No surgery or ANE on site, but have tele-ED support at night
• It's essentially a stand-alone ED
• Average inpatient census is 4.5, 4k annual visits, and average 11.4 ED visits / day

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emergency medicine, physician, frontier community, healthcare, emergency department, resuscitation, hospitalist coverage, clinical care, patient admissions, telemedicine