What are the responsibilities and job description for the Gastroenterologist position at Henry Ford Health - Careers Careers?
The Henry Ford Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, in conjunction with HF Wyandotte Hospital, are seeking a board eligible/certified Gastroenterologist. Henry Ford Medical Group is one of the nation’s largest group practices with 1,900 physicians and researchers in more than 40 specialties. The Division of Gastroenterology currently employs 39 Gastroenterologists and Hepatologists, making us the largest subspecialty GI practice in Detroit and the surrounding suburbs. We are supported by 6 APPs, a full time clinical psychologist, a dietician, and 241 support staff. We have several subspecialty groups, including liver transplantation, IBD, motility, interventional GI, and hepatology. The Division provides outpatient clinic and endoscopy services at Henry Ford Hospital and 7 suburban satellites as well as inpatient consultative services at Henry Ford Hospital and Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. We are looking to build a similar group at Wyandotte, with the support of and in partnership with Wyandotte executive leadership. The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology supports a robust training program which includes 15 GI fellows, one of which trains additionally in transplant hepatology as well as 1 additional interventional fellow for a total of 16 fellows.
Henry Ford Health System is a Michigan not-for-profit corporation and one of the nation’s leading comprehensive, integrated health systems. It provides health insurance and health care delivery including acute, specialty, primary and preventive care services at 5 hospitals and 30 Henry Ford medical centers. The System has over 3.2 million outpatient visits and more than 88,800 surgical procedures performed annually. The Health Alliance Plan insurance arm of the Health System covers more than 670,000 members in Michigan. With more than 28,000 employees, Henry Ford Health System is the fifth-largest employer in metro Detroit, and amongst the most diverse. Generating more than $1.7 billion of annual economic stimulus, it proudly acts as one of Michigan's anchor institutions.
Benefits include fully paid malpractice with tail coverage, long term disability and affordable family medical benefits.
Other job specifics include:
- Leadership potential
- Eventually, hoping to build a group of 5-6 Gastroenterologists based out of Wyandotte
- Mix of outpatient and inpatient endoscopy
- Outpatient endoscopy will ramp up quickly, buoyed immediately by vibrant HFMG open access processes
- Access to cutting edge and top-of-the-line endoscopes, equipment, and software (including Provation and EPIC)
- Membership in large and academic Gastroenterology/Hepatology division
- Partners with expertise in Hepatology, IBD, Motility, and Advanced Endoscopy
- Built-in access to ancillary GI services, including breath testing, capsule endoscopy, fibroscan, and motility studies
- Ability to virtually attend academic lecture series for CME/MOC
- Modern clinic space within main hospital
- Support team will consist of clinic MA, scheduling support, and APP to support inpatient and outpatient patient care
- Call responsibilities
- Cover hospital a maximum of every 4th weekend
- Cover a maximum of 7 weeknights/month
- Additional moonlighting available
- Must have completed an ACGME/AOA approved Internal Medicine residency program.
- Must have completed or are currently completing an ACGME/AOA approved Gastroenterology fellowship program.
