Practice Details: 6 Internists (including 5 Hospitalists) and 8 Family Practice physicians at Pines Health Centers in Presque Isle, Van Buren and Caribou. Hospitalists provide 24/7 inpatient coverage, including weekends The night shift hospitalist is a solo position. The hospitals Emergency Department is continuously staffed with a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician. Hospitalists are infrequently asked to cover additional shifts for colleague hospitalists who are out of the facility for vacations, holidays or continuing medical education. Specialists available include urology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine, ophthalmology, and hematology/oncology. Access to Cary Medical Center outpatient clinics including Cardiology, Pulmonology, Hematology/Oncology, Endocrinology, Neurosurgery, Ear, Nose and Throat, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Rheumatology, along with diabetes counseling and nutritional therapy Expectations " provide high quality, efficient inpatient consultation and acute care within the 6-bed combined medical and surgical ICU, the 24-bed med/surg unit, and for admissions coming from the Emergency Department. The hospitalists are responsible for managing post-surgical patients who are on a ventilator and frequently perform pre-operative assessments for the attending surgeons. Communicate effectively on an ongoing basis with hospital social workers and discharge planners, office-based primary care physicians, with specialists at tertiary referral centers by telephone, and coordinate patient transfers to appropriate higher levels of care. Coordinate closely with hospital-employed radiologists and emergency medicine physicians to meet the care needs patients. Status: Full-time: 12 hour shifts, approximately fifteen (15) shifts per four-week rotation. Patients: Community profile includes a large cohort of elderly patients with co-morbidities On-Call Rotation " infrequent coverage resulting from time-off requests of peer hospitalists for vacations, holidays and continuing medical education. Qualifications: Board Certified or board eligible in Internal Medicine while tracking to become Board Certified MD/DO American born and trained physicians and foreign-born physicians who have completed a US residency (3-year minimum) and/or fellowship will be considered equally. H-1B and J-1 visa candidates will be sponsored. In-practice physicians, residents or fellows, and military-trained physicians will be considered equally Community: Caribou, Maine, is the most northeastern city within the United States and has a population of approximately 9,000 people. This dynamic community is economically, culturally, and socially inviting. Caribou promotes and aggressively pursues innovative business and economic development, and welcomes, supports and responds to the diversity of new people and new ideas. Caribou prides itself on the high quality of its public school system, extremely low crime rate and family-oriented community activities
