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.