Our current team of four surgeons consists of Dr. Sameer Alrefai, Dr. Gustavo Franco Vasquez, Dr. Nicholas Tapazoglou, and Dr. John Harvey. Dr. Tapazoglouand and Dr. Alrefai do bariatrics, and Dr. Harvey does vascular. Dr. Harvey is with the MedStar Shah Medical Group, also in Leonardtown, while the other three providers are in the employed MedStar Medical Group, which our new surgeon will be joining.
You will provide clinical and professional services to patients within the scope of your qualifications. You will be solely responsible for the quality of care rendered to the patients and assuring that the care meets or exceeds currently accepted standards. You will participate in the quality assurance and risk management program.
As a member of the Medstar St. Mary’s Hospital team, you need to relate to colleagues, staff patients, and the public in a collegial manner.
Currently, our surgeons are seeing over 500 patients in the clinic and performing over 180 surgeries annually. The top surgical procedures we do are Lap Cholis, Hernia repair. We spend 45 minutes on an initial consultation and 15-20 minutes on follow-ups. We do not treat trauma patients here as we are a community hospital. Trauma patients are transported to one of MedStar’s tertiary care hospitals about 35 miles away.
Call is 1:5 or 6-days per month. Any additional call is compensated. Weekends are offset by locums 1-2 weekends per month.
The current practice is 70% general surgery and 30% subspecialty except for the bariatric surgeon who is doing 85% subspecialty and 15% general. They share in the general surgery call schedule.
We have a new DaVinci Xi, our EMR is proprietary MedConnect which is a Cerner platform in the hospital and the clinic. We have 5 ORs and a minor room for endo’s. OR time is determined by block scheduling. It is reviewed each month and the number of days is determined by availability and utilization. Our OR turnaround time is under 45 minutes which leads the entire MedStar system.
And there is the opportunity to teach students/residents/ fellows through an academic affiliation with Georgetown University and Washington Hospital Center in DC.
After you, and your spouse/significant other, have reviewed the information on the practice and community, and you are interested in being considered for the opportunity, kindly forward us a copy of your CV if we do not already have it. We will need to spend some time on the phone with you, and your significant other, to gain a clear understanding of your current situation. We will document that information in the form of a cover letter and forward that on to our client.
We will verify your board certification and all state licenses. You will need to complete our electronic candidate background disclosure form via DocuSign which will automatically be sent to your Recruiter Consultant. If you have any current or past background issues, malpractice cases that were dropped, settled, or still pending we will need them to be disclosed to our client. Kindly provide us a brief written explanation of these cases.
We will forward your information, along with two potential interview dates, to our client/physician lead Don Lewis, Director Physician Services. Don will set-up a virtual meeting with the service line leader. Should that call go well, you will be invited to come in for an onsite interview with your significant. other. They will fly you into Baltimore Washington International Airport or Reagan National Airport where you will pick-up a rental car and drive down to Leonardtown. There you will meet with hospital executives and administration, the physicians and staff over the better part of a day to get a feel for their personalities and how you will fit into the medical community. You will tour the facilities and will also tour the community with a local realtor that is familiar with the entire area.
After your interview we will receive feedback from everyone that met with you. We will follow up with you regarding your interest and the next steps. If an offer is extended it will be in the form of a non-binding Letter of Intent. Once you sign the Letter of Intent, an executable contract will be sent to you electronically. The contract should arrive within two weeks.
All offers are contingent upon referencing and credentialling. Our client will want to conduct three to five professional references on your behalf. Provide the references’ name, title, relationship to you and contact information. These should be physicians and staff members that know you well and can discuss your clinical skills.
