This position is going to be very autonomous and will allow the incoming physician to make their own schedule and be in control of their practice. The office is open normal business hours from 8am to 5pm. They have seen certain schedules work better than others and would suggest starting in the hospital and round on patients in the morning and finish in the office seeing patients in the afternoon.
However, if there is a different way the physician wants to organize their schedule they are completely open to that idea and welcome new ideas.
There will be a ramp up period of about 6-months until this is a 100% EP position. The beginning stages of the practice are going to be on the lighter side while the provider is integrated into the community and builds a patient panel. Having the flexibility to offer some general cardiology services while ramping up will assist with referrals as this is a smaller community and word of mouth travels quickly. Providing any additional cardiology services will also help the salary of the provider during the first year as they build up their EP patient/services.
During the first 6-months the provider will still provide all EP services and perform procedures weekly in the EP lab. They have not had a full-time Electrophysiologist on staff to provide an accurate representation of what someone full-time would be able to provide. However, they had a retired physician come back to work a few times a month to provide EP services and he seeing around 30-40 patients per month. In 2022 working an abbreviated schedule coming in only 2 times per month, he was able to put in 83 pacemakers and 46 defibrillators.
They have estimated that the incoming provider will be able to do at least 2 ablations per week and put in a few devices per month. But as the provider builds their practice those numbers will only increase. This practice has also had other EP physicians visit their facility and tell them they have the volumes to support someone full-time and advised to tap into the amount of diseased population Casper has.
There will be a small amount of outreach that will be done which will require traveling out of town about once a month. This will be for an arrhythmia clinic in a different community that can monitor rhythm disturbances and such to those who don’t normally have access to this type of care.
There will be no required call component of this position. But they are most definitely looking for a team player that would be willing to help here and there. Every couple of months if one of their providers is on vacation or out sick, they would greatly appreciate the assistance from the EP. Again, this is not a requirement but seeing more general cardiology patients every once and a while may end up coming back to you when they need an EP physician, or they may have a friend that can be referred to you int eh future.