Ideally, we are looking for someone that is willing to do traditional family medicine, seeing patients in the clinic, rounding on inpatients, and taking inpatient call. The hospital has a group that handles 50% of the call to cover the emergency department. However, we are willing to consider candidates that prefer to do 100% outpatient medicine.
With an inpatient census of only 2-3, the inpatient responsibilities are minimal. However, if you do not wish to do inpatient, we will consider someone only interested in 100% outpatient for a slightly lower base salary. There will also be opportunities to round on patients at several nursing homes in the area. Also, there are couple of satellite clinics that you may be asked to cover from time to time, once to twice per month.
The practice schedule is comprised of a 4.5–5 day work week with 36 hours of patient contact and 4 hours of administrative duties. However, we will consider a 4-day work week with 10-hour shifts. The average patient volume will be 22 patients per day (8 hour day) in the clinic.