Rutgers University

Key Responsibilities

• • Clinical practice with 90% effort focused on direct patient care in the practice of gastroenterology.
• • Clinical practice will be concentrated on diagnosis, monitoring, management and endoscopic procedures on patients within the practice of gastroenterology including basic hepatology, and standard gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures of fellowship trained gastroenterologists, particularly upper endoscopy and colonoscopy. Some effort may be focused in areas with additional expertise such as gastrointestinal motility.
• • Responsibilities will include (depending on inpatient duty) 6 to 8 half-day sessions per week (half gastroenterology outpatient clinic and half endoscopy). For those trained in motility, a motility session may be substituted for either a clinic or endoscopy session.
• • Care for inpatients on the general gastroenterology or hepatology inpatient services (or a combined service) 4 to 12 weeks per year, the number of inpatient weeks depending on the number of faculty in the Division.
• • Establish and maintain physician office hours in order to be accessible to new consults and follow up patients, adjusting as needed at designated GI offices.
• • Be accountable for overall care of patients who are consulted or admitted (inpatient and same day procedure) under Physician’s name.
• • Provide complete and timely consults as requested by other specialists.
• • Provide clear instructions, explanations, and options available regarding diagnosis, treatment, medications, and follow-up to patients, family members, and other health care team members.
• • Provide GI night and weekend on-call coverage during inpatient service (estimated at 2 nights per Monday – Thursday weekdays and 50% of weekends while on inpatient service and otherwise as is necessary to cover clinical needs.
• • Attend monthly meetings with key personnel to review data, outcomes, protocols, policies, procedures, and staffing to continuously monitor and improve the care rendered.
• • Attend departmental physician staff meetings, M&M Conference, liver masses/tumor board meetings, fellowship selection committee, and other departmental meetings deemed appropriate by the Division Chief or the Department of Medicine Chair
• • Identify opportunities to participate in research trials and publications
• • Safeguard patient confidentiality at all times. Limit work/patient related discussions to private areas.
• • Complete required medical documentation included in patients charts in accordance with the Medical Staff Bylaws.
• • Provide accurate and complete information required for billing
• • Submit clinical charges and patient notes in timely manner.
• • Effectively communicate with patients, family members, and other health care team members.
• • Supervise and teach fellows, residents and housestaff, and medical students.
• • Perform clinical or translational research or quality improvement and academic program building in areas of interest, preferably related to liver diseases.
• • Pursue leadership activities in medical societies and associations, particularly in leading gastroenterology, endoscopy and internal medicine societies.
• • Participate in or develop CME programs, especially as related to gastrointestinal and biliary malignancies, advanced endoscopy or other clinical areas of expertise.
• • Participate in the academic activities of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division as well as the educational, patient care, research/quality improvement and other activities of the Department of Medicine.
• • Attend Division and Department meetings including but not limited to faculty meetings, Grand Rounds and Fellow recruitment sessions.
• • Participate in appropriate Department of Medicine and Medical School committees.
• • Perform other duties as assigned by the Division Chief and/or Department Chair.