Job Description:
HR Anew is a full service human resources management consulting and professional services firm headquartered in Columbia, MD. Our work is grounded in innovation, thought leadership, and performance excellence as we work in collaboration with clients to recruit, develop professionally, and retain employees.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Committed to providing the highest attainable level of good healthcare to Westminster and the surrounding communities in Maryland for the past 50 years, our client is currently seeking EM Physicians to join the talented staff of this historical medical center. Our client strives to be the best place to work, practice medicine, and receive care.
Job Summary:
Diagnose and treat emergent and urgent illnesses and injuries that require immediate care and/or any other cases that present to the Emergency Department. Emergency Medicine Physicians practice based on the knowledge and skills required for the prevention, diagnosis, and management of acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury, which affect patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioral disorders.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide quality and compassionate medical care for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with the aim of improving long-term patient outcome
- Demonstrate compassion to patient’s family and friends and ensure patient satisfaction following EMA guidelines and expectations
- Demonstrate efficient patient time management, meeting or exceeding the productivity reference range
- Provide for patient comfort including prompt and effective management of pain
- Inform patients and families clearly and carefully about care plans, results, delays, diagnoses, and discharge instructions
- Attend and productively participate in hospital, medical staff, and department meetings, risk management seminars, and patient satisfaction workshops
- Comply with hospital bylaws regarding participation in hospital committees and departmental meetings while representing the interests of the Emergency Department and EMA
- Adhere to the EMA and Hospital Corporate Compliance Plan as well as comply with all EMA administrative policies
- Meet or exceed EMA chart documentation guidelines and expectations
- Provide timely and continuous care to patients; provide seamless transfer of care of your patients at change of shift; maintain medical records consistent with EMA policies including clear and legible handwriting, dating and timing entries, clear signatures, highlighted documentation of any procedures; at least one diagnosis, detailed discharge instructions, appropriate critical care times, and complete and detailed histories, ROS, PMH, Social histories, and physical exams
- Participate in the EMA on-call program by being readily available, answering phone calls and pages promptly; responding to on-call assignments quickly and without argument
- Present a professional appearance and demeanor; actively seek to enhance the image of EMA with company and hospital employees, administration, ancillary services, EMS providers, medical staff, nursing staff, etc.
- Foster collegial relationships that encourage cooperation with other EMA employees, hospital administration, ancillary services, EMS providers, medical staff and nursing staff at EMA facilities
- Fulfill EMA administrative policies, procedures, and expectations regarding, but not limited to, schedule changes, personal schedule requests, on-call procedures, and vacation requests.
- Comply with hospital code of conduct and citizenship policies
- Perform related work, as assigned
Requirements (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- Alert, oriented, and able to rapidly process information, develop treatment plans, make decisions, and act decisively
- Ability to perform multiple complex and serious problems simultaneously/concurrently and be able to effectively and efficiently observe, diagnose, and treat a large number of patients at any given time
- Effectively manage high stress situations
- Ability to perform all functions as listed on the delineation of privileges.
- Understand the development of pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical systems and the skills necessary for this development
- Possess a broad field of knowledge and advance procedural skills, often including surgical procedures, trauma resuscitation, advance cardiac life support, and advanced airway management
- Adequate vision (corrected or uncorrected) to examine patients, perform procedures, and document charts; adequate color vision to read bedside diagnostic testing; specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus
- Adequate hearing (corrected or uncorrected) to listen to patients, doctors, family members, paramedics, nurses, secretaries, phone conversations, and radio calls (often from individuals out of one’s visual field) concurrently/simultaneously; ability to work in an environment with a moderate noise level
- Ability to speak, write, and read English fluently; ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing; ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, clinical studies, technical procedures, and/or hospital, EMA, and governmental regulations; ability to document cases, charts, write reports, and correspondence; ability to research, analyze, interpret complex data, and present comprehensive reports; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from patients, hospital staff, management, and public groups
- Ability to work at least twelve (12) consecutive hours with frequent walking, standing, sitting upright
- Ability to sit, bend, and stoop for periods of time
- Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally
- Ability to handle or feel objects, tools, and controls; frequent lifting, stretching, and other physical exertion during positioning of patients and moving equipment
- Ability to handle exposure to patient conditions and some unpleasant sights, smells, and contagious diseases
- Exercise a high degree of initiative, judgment, and discretion
- Analyze situations accurately and taking effective action
- Apply mathematical operations to such tasks as electrolyte equations, dosing, and administration of continuous medication drips
- Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of clinical, intellectual, and practical situations and problems
- Must meet hospital(s) credentialing requirements in accordance with EMA staffed facilities
- Must have and maintain a current State License, ACLS (if hospital applicable), Maryland CDS (if applicable) and Controlled Dangerous Substances Registration Certificate from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships
- Skill in organizing work, delegating, and achieving goals and objectives
- Maintain prompt and regular attendance and able to provide patient care during entire shift; able to provide required call coverage according to EMA and/or the facility’s on-call procedures
Education & Experience Requirements:
Board Certification (or eligibility) in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or the American Board of Osteopathic Emergency Medicine (ABOEM) for all physicians.
How to Apply:
HR Anew
6350 Stevens Forest Road
Suite 302
Columbia, MD 21046
For immediate consideration forward your MS Word resume and salary expectations to the address below.
HR Anew is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We conduct pre-employment testing, background checks, and maintain a drug-free workplace.
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