Physician Assistant, ED & Plastics and Oral Surgery (40 hrs)

Work in collaboration with board certified pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians, PEM fellows, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, emergency medicine and pediatrics residents. Key Responsibilities: Administer IV conscious sedation, including IV placement, peri-, intra-and post-procedural assessment and monitoring of patients undergoing IV sedation in the office-based setting.

This Physician Assistant will work in Plastic and Oral Surgery in the summer months and the Emergency Department during the winter months. 

Plastic Surgery and Oral Surgery 
Key Responsibilities:

• Administer IV conscious sedation, including IV placement, peri-, intra-and post-procedural assessment and monitoring of patients undergoing IV sedation in the office-based setting
• Provide comprehensive healthcare services to patients of all ages and with all types of conditions
• Elicit histories, perform examinations, order and interpret diagnostic studies, instruct and counsel patients about their diagnosis
• Provide all aspects of pre-operative and post-operative care, as well as first or second assisting during surgery
• Facilitate the appropriate referral of patients, consistent with his or her supervising physician’s scope of expertise and responsibility and delegated to him/her by the supervising physician
• 40 hours per week, four 10-hour days Monday through Friday in Boston and Waltham as well as the possibility of travelling to other satellite locations as needed.

Emergency Department
Key Responsibilities:

• Managing patients at all acuity levels and across all ages with medical and/or surgical complaints who are boarding in the Emergency Department awaiting admission to the hospital.
• Perform reassessments and continue to progress a wide range of care plans using sound clinical reasoning and critical thinking.
• Engage in communication with consultations in subspecialty services to aid in patient care. Engage in sign-out communication with floor team upon ability to transfer.
• Communicate with patients and families in a respectful manner leading to compassionate and empathetic care. Instruct and counsel patients regarding physical and mental health issues. Work to promote and encourage optimal and realistic patient goals.
• Work in collaboration with board certified pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians, PEM fellows, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, emergency medicine and pediatrics residents.

• 39.5 hours per week, four daytime shifts rotating Monday through Saturday in Boston. Will need to work 2 Saturday shifts per month, the remainder of shifts will be Monday-Friday. Weekday shifts are 9-hour shifts from 7a-4p. Weekend shifts are 10-hour shifts from 7a-5p. 3 hours of administrative time will be added per week. Will need to work one winter holiday (Thanksgiving or Christmas).

Minimum Qualifications
Education:

• Masters degree in physician assistant studies

Experience:

• Experience as a PA preferred
• An interest in inpatient medicine
• Rotations in plastics/OR preferred
• If new grad PA previous experience as an EMT, Paramedic or Combat Medic strongly preferred
• Experience in Sedation (nitrous, conscious sedation with versed and fentanyl) experience preferred

Licensure/ Certifications:

• A current MA PA license required
• PALS and BLS once employed