Job Details
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - TRAUMA SURGERY SERVICE Rotating schedule with AM and PM shifts JOB SUMMARY/RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides emergency surgery/trauma call coverage, including assessment, surgery if needed, consultation, rounding and follow-up of patients. Fosters teamwork and communication among all internal and external constituencies.
Clinical responsibilities
- Provides in-house services as scheduled by the Medical Director or designee.
- Serves as the attending physician for his/her own patients in the SICU and serves as a consultant when requested.
- Assists the attending and/or consultant physician in the management of patients in the SICU.
- In emergent situations in the SICU, when the physician is not the attending or consultant, evaluates and stabilizes patients until an attending or consultant physician can be contacted and/or arrives.
- Directs the management of such patient until such time as the attending or consultant physician arrives to assume responsibility to direct care.
- The attending or consultant physician may delegate responsibility to the physician, allowing him/her to continue to direct care for specific patients in the SICU.
- Evaluates patients in the Medical Center for potential admission to the SICU.
- Evaluates hospitalized patients who have become unstable and are considered for transfer to the SICU.
- Responds immediately to assist in the care of critically ill patients anywhere in the Medical Center as requested by an attending or consultant physician.
- Supervises and assists house staff in the evaluation and management of team care patients.
- Provides call coverage for all Emergency Department and transfer hotline general surgery consults and admissions and any emergent or urgent general surgery in-patient consults.
- Provides inpatient management of general emergent or urgent general surgery patients along with outpatient follow up.
- Provides In-House trauma coverage for Emergency Department and transfer hotline.
- Provides inpatient management of trauma patients along with outpatient clinic follow up.
- Education, Training & Experience: Physician Assistant must be a graduate of a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
