MedStar Health

Key Responsibilities

• • Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies procedures quality standards and safety standards.
• • Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.
• • Participates in Residency curriculum development.
• • Develops and evaluates resident competencies.
• • Participates in resident conferences and other didactic teaching.
• • Faculty advisor to residents as determined by the Residency Program Director.
• • Mentors provides guidance and feedback and monitors resident stress.
• • Teaches and closely oversees resident care of inpatients on the medical units.
• • Responsible for Teaching and Management rounds.
• • Demonstrates knowledge of internal medicine patient care requirements for hospitalized patients.
• • Provides internal medicine care within the inpatient setting to include but not limited to history and physical exams consultative services daily rounding services and discharge planning.
• • Provides medical care that is of high quality as judged by peers.
• • Demonstrates knowledge of Federal and State regulations about accurate patient billing and coding for both professional services and hospital-related charges.
• • Produces reliable and accurate billing records that allow the hospital to correctly bill third-party payors and other consumers of healthcare at the hospital.
• • Cooperates with third-party resource management within the limits of compliance mandates in providing clinical information pertaining to patient condition.
• • Demonstrates knowledge of utilization criteria including but not limited to InterQual criteria for admission and expected length of hospital stay for medical inpatients.
• • Generates length of stay and hospital charges that are on average below that of non-Hospitalist medical peers.
• • Efficiently manages a caseload of 10 or more patients per day.
• • Demonstrates familiarity and ability to expeditiously work up patients allowing efficient use of hospital resources.
• • Performs care within an acceptable period.
• • Responds to referrals by the PCP and ED for patient evaluation in a timely manner facilitating timely movement of patients through direct or ED admission and throughout the hospital continuum.
• • Facilitates communication between the Program and private attendings.
• • Integrates Program into Case Management and physician extender (PA and NP) services.
• • Participates in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.
• • Participates in meetings and on committees and represents the department and hospital in community outreach efforts.
• • Performs other duties as assigned.
• • Utilizes interpersonal skills that facilitate interactions with the patients families peers ancillary staff and consultants.
• • Assures that patients and families are kept informed of the clinical management care plan and clinical outcomes on a regular basis.
• • Communicates with the patient's PCP on a regular basis via phone fax or other electronic means.