PHYSICIAN: Nocturnist for Internal Medicine Hospitalist Program
Location: Dothan, Alabama
Description: Southeast Alabama Medical Center is currently interviewing PHYSICIAN: Nocturnist for Internal Medicine Hospitalist Program right now, this vacancy will be designated in Alabama. For complete informations about this vacancy opportunity please read the description below. Southeast Alabama Medical Center is 420-bed regional referral and Level II trauma center and employs and manages its own hospitalist program. Five physicians cover the daytime shift while one covers nights. Average daily census is 15, with a cap at 20. The hospital features an electronic medical record, journal club, and admission and rounding caps. Team approach with morning meeting for report and hand off.
Employment Benefits Include:
Interviewing expenses
Signing bonus and relocation expense allowance
Starting salary is $105/hr day shift, $110/hr night shift with guaranteed 16 shifts per month
Comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to dental/health insurance, malpractice, CME and matching retirement
Hospitalists provide ED unassigned coverage, care for transfers and in-hospital consults. They also provide limited coverage for some primary care physicians.
Physicians utilize in house electronic medical records and PACS, physician portal, participate in a journal club, and have personal access to Up to Date program.
COMMUNITY:
Nestled in the SE corner of Alabama and in close proximity to Florida and Georgia, Dothan, AL has a referral area of 624,000 and serves as a shopping/retail hub. The public school system is excellent and operated by the city. There are several academic and private schools available also. Economically rated #1 in retail sales per capita in Alabama, it offers excellent shopping opportunities, i.e., Barnes and Nobles, Target, Dillards, etc. and numerous recognized restaurants (Olive Garden, Longhorns, Outback, etc.) Dothan has the lowest cost of living in AL and is ranked 8th lowest nationally. Dothan was recognized by Business Week as Alabama's 2010 Best Places to Raise Your Kids with its family-oriented quality of life with outdoor recreational areas including a Robert Trent Jones golf course, nearby Lake Eufaula and Lake Seminole. Dothan is Home of the National Peanut Festival and has a botanical gardens and opera house. Beautiful white sandy Gulf beaches are a little over an hour away at Panama City, FL (73 miles) and Destin (83 miles).
FACILITY:
Southeast Alabama Medical Center, a 420-bed facility established in 1957, is one of the largest not-for- profit tertiary referral centers in Alabama. Owned and operated by the Houston County Healthcare Authority, it serves over 785,000 in a 75 mile radius around Dothan, Houston County and its surrounding tri-state (AL- FL- GA) area. In addition to offering clinical services ranging from comprehensive rehabilitation to nutritional counseling, it also offers 20 ORs with state of the art technology --2 hybrid vascular ORs ; Level 2 trauma center with 11 EM residency trained EM physicians and volumes approaching 58,000; 5 interventional catheterization (and EP laboratory) labs; comprehensive cancer center; diabetes treatment center; outpatient tower with streamlined services; pain management center staffed by fellowship trained anesthesiologists; neurodiagnostics center with 6 sleep rooms; comprehensive radiology services including 2 interventional labs (cardiology and vascular) and 2 short-bore MRIs, 3 CT scanners including 64 row CT) and Pet Scanner; 32 ICU beds; Women's Imaging Center; Family Birth Center with 27 LDRPS and 2 dedicated c-section rooms; 24 hr nurse call center; dedicated inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services; wound care/hyperbarics center; and a screening vehicle to assist with the early identification of DM, vascular conditions and prostate cancer.
Southeast Alabama Medical Center is developing its own private college of osteopathic medicine on the SAMC campus. Construction on the 120,000-square-foot facility will begin Spring 2012. The hospital is planning a $15 million operating budget for the college. The first class of 150 students is expected to enroll in the fall of 2013.
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This vacancy will be opened on: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:54:08 GMT
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