Hospitalist - Day - IM Residency Teaching Opportunity - Sign on / Relocation Bonus - Beautiful Montana

Benefis Health Systemhas an opportunity for a board-certified Internal Medicine physician to join the hospitalist group serving our academic community hospital in Great Falls, Montana. In addition to patient care, our mission is to provideeducation and supervision to internal medicine residents and medical students alike. Our robust system has a level II trauma designation and offers a wide variety of patients and pathology, collaborative teams, great specialty support, competitive compensation and benefits and schedulingthat accommodates an adventurous Montana lifestyle!

Position Details

• Reasonable patient load with a targetstart-of-day census of 15 patients to allow for good medical practice and collaboration with colleagues
• 12-hour shifts, 7 on / 7 off block schedule, typically days, Wed-Tues, working in a team of 7-8 physicians and 2nurse practitioners, in addition to medical students and residents. A swing / admitter physician (11a-9p) assists with afternoon admissions. Night coverage is provided by 1 physician and 1 APP from 7p-7a.
• Cover only 1 hospital with 349 acute care beds, admitting medical and surgical patients 18 years of age and older (adult), excluding obstetrical and providing medical coordination and inpatient utilization management for surgical patients
• Great access to specialists with over 400 providers on our medical staff representing 40 specialties, including : Neurosurgery, CVT Surgery, Interventional and General Cardiology, General Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Nephrology, Orthopedics, Inpatient Gastroenterology, Psychiatry, and more!
• Epic EMR
• Procedures optional with privileging and no ICU coverage required (intensivists are in house 24 / 7 for consultation)
• Oversight of Internal MedicineResidents is expected with additional opportunity to teach medical students.
• Internal Medicine BE / BC required

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Community Information

Great Falls is known as Montana’s base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.

About Benefis Health System

Benefis Health System is one of Montana’s largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker’s “Best Places To Work in Healthcare” for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state’s land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.

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