Consultant - Internal Medicine

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensures Performs Responsible for hospitalized cases and certain out-patients whose disease requires medical care at the specialist level.

• Admission and work-up of all medical patients to medical wards, ICU and CCU as required. These patients remain the responsibility of the admitting internist from the time of admission to the date of discharge.

• Day-to-day care for these patients may be assigned to the ward physicians; however, the ultimate responsibility remains with the admitting internist.

• Conducts out-patient medical consultations in the clinics by appointment and follow-up on medical problems as needed.

• After working hours, when on-call, is available for answering medical consultations by physicians in other departments, in the intensive care areas, medical wards, ER, and other in-patient services.

• Will serve as a major contributor to in-service training activities of the new employees.

• Works under the general professional supervision of the Head Internist.

• Performs the professional duties of an internist in adherence to the Delineation of Privileges maintained by the Internal Medicine department for individual internists. Privileges may differ between individual internists, depending on the efficiency and skills of the particular individual.

• Answers in-patient consultations from medical or other in-patient services.

• Participates in the reading of EKG’s. Performs lung function studies and makes interpretations when needed.

• Administers Executive Health Program examinations on a regular basis.

• Participates in in-service death review; chart, Quality Assurance and peer reviews.

• Participates in the monthly Internal Medicine service Journal activity, and as assigned other committee functions such as the ER, Infection Review, Standardization, ICU, CCU and CPR.

• Strictly observes organization’s medical regulations and policies especially those related to infection control, patient safety, patient assessment and patient care.

Performs other miscellaneous related duties as requested by the Head of Internal Medicine