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The Department of Medicine at Nova Scotia Health Authority has an exciting opportunity for a locum Medicine Support Physician to join our team. This role will provide support to our emergency services, working closely with our emergency department physicians and hospitalist team to ensure seamless patient care.
Responsibilities- Review the whiteboard in the write-up room each morning to note which patients are consulted to or admitted under the DoM Support Physician from the night before and are awaiting bed availability.
- Receive and complete consults appropriate for hospitalist level care from the ED physician, or the Triage Internist when patients do not meet MTU/IMCU criteria.
- Admit patients in the ED who are suitable for the Hospitalist Medical Service (HMS) while awaiting assignment to an HMS line. Admit under MED.
- Consult other services to request taking over care if a patient is better suited under another service.
- Round on and actively manage ED admitted patients and determine what investigations, treatments, consultations may need to be started while awaiting admission to the floor.
- Discharge patients who no longer require admission and ensure a discharge summary is dictated or filled out on eSummary via clinical portal.
- Request transfer of care under the HMS as HMS beds become available.
- Hand-over to overnight, IM ED team hours.
- Assist the MTU-ED team in rounding on patients admitted to the MTU who remain in the ED when less than 5 consults/admissions by noon.
- Participate in the DoM surge protocol for DoM appropriate patients in collaboration with the triage internist and DoM consult services when the MTU-ED team has reached census cap.
- Use the whiteboard in the write-up room to clearly designate the MRP for each patient.
- Update and clearly indicate contact information for the DoM Internist/Hospitalist in ED on the whiteboard.
- Ensure admitted patients' facesheets are under appropriate MRPs and cut codes to allow nursing to know who to call during the day.
- Color identify inpatient charts depending on service.
Individuals can invoice the DoM monthly for the shifts they have participated in.
Expected Hours- Monday to Friday daytime hours.
- Average day: 9 hours. Day rate is $ per hour.
- Candidates must hold a CCFP, FRCPC or equivalent in Medicine.
The remuneration will be $ per day/shift. There is opportunity for those with internal medicine training to also participate in a paid on-call rota. The DoM ideally is looking for one full-time locum to cover this work, but is flexible for more than one individual to cover these shifts. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
