Galveston, TX30+ days ago
Clinical Responsibilities: • Hospital Medicine - Nocturnist: • Provide attending nocturnist coverage or direct patient care on general medicine inpatient services with daily rounds, patient evaluation, and treatment plan development • Manage patients admitted with common medical conditions including pneumonia, heart failure, COPD exacerbations, acute kidney injury, sepsis, diabetic complications, and other general medical conditions • Lead interdisciplinary rounds with nursing, pharmacy, case management, physical therapy, and social work • Make admission, discharge, and transfer decisions with attention to appropriate level of care • Coordinate subspecialty consultation and co-management • Participate in quality improvement initiatives including reduction of hospital-acquired conditions and readmission prevention • Provide perioperative medical consultation and co-management for surgical patients • Supervise residents and medical students during inpatient rotations with bedside teaching and clinical reasoning education. Educational Responsibilities: • Supervise Internal Medicine residents in continuity clinic, inpatient general medicine services, and serve as longitudinal career mentors • Teach bedside clinical skills including history-taking, physical examination, clinical reasoning, and communication skills • Provide procedural teaching including basic procedures (venipuncture, intravenous access, Foley catheter placement) and advanced procedures (paracentesis, thoracentesis, arthrocentesis, central line placement, arterial line placement) as applicable • Deliver didactic lectures on general medicine topics including common inpatient and outpatient conditions, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based medicine • Mentor trainees in career development, specialty selection, and professional identity formation • Contribute to curriculum development, competency assessment, and program evaluation for medical student and residency education.