Pulmonology Physician

Pulmonary/Critical Care opening in BostonLocated in Boston, MAFull-time, permanent openingEmployed positionSeeking a BE/BCJob Details:Practice setting: Delivering perioperative pulmonary and critical care to a predominantly elective orthopedic surgery patient population, in an orthopedic specialty acute care hospital in Boston, MAPractice responsibilities include management of both, ICU and Pulmonary patients: - ICU responsibilities consist of perioperative management of complex orthopedic patients in collaboration with multidisciplinary team - Pulmonary responsibilities consist of establishing an outpatient pulmonary practice, and providing inpatient and outpatient perioperative consultations - ICU and Pulmonary responsibilities rotate every other week with another full time Pulmonologist/Intensivist - 8 bed ICU consisting of mostly post-operative orthopedic and spine patients - Closed ICU system. Intensivist manages all patients, while patients remain under the name of the surgeon of record. In-house Hospitalist coverage at nightICU clinical responsibilities - Coordinating medical management with surgical attending and subspecialists - Coordinating discharge and/or transferring process for patients within the hospital or to/from outside institutions - Out of hospital coverage requires call back within 5 to 10 minutes, and in-house availability within 30 minutes for emergencies (rare) - Assisting the on-call hospitalists with ICU / pulmonary support during off-hours. - Hospitalist covers the ICU, including post-operative admissions, when intensivist out of the hospital - One weekend on-call required per month (Friday 7pm to Monday 7am) with typical in-house coverage from 8am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Weekend call shared with per diem intensivists.Pulmonary clinical responsibilities include: - Attend five half-day pulmonary outpatient clinics every other week, for general pulmonary referral patients and for pre-operative pulmonary