What are the responsibilities and job description for the Asst/Assoc/Professor of Clinical Medicine - Academic Hospitalist position at University of Illinois Hospital?
Position Summary
Providing care to patients and instruction to learners.
Duties & Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Serve as full-time hospitalist (attending physician of record or consultant) for twenty-three (23) weeks per year thereafter on the University Hospitalist and Teaching Service (UHATS)'
- Perform or supervise the performance of patient care services and procedures on patients
- Collaborate with other attending physicians and consultants
- Assure orderly transfer of care to other physicians when assigned hours of service end
- Reinforce hospitalist processes for patient care
- Document daily involvement in patient care in the medical record and record charges appropriate to the level of service provided and documented
- Participate in performance improvement projects defined by the department chair
Resident/Student Education
- Supervise residents in an Ambulatory office when needed and not on service (average two half-days per month)
- Perform internal medicine bedside teaching when assigned to UHATS to standards of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
- Participate in Morning Report daily while on service and most days when off-service
- Provide at least one Grand Rounds yearly
- Provide lectures to residents and medical students
- Work with the other core members of the faculty on curriculum development and process improvement with the goal of exceptional resident/student education
Administrative/Research
- Assume responsibility for the business and fiscal activities of the department through routine evaluation of coding and documentation, regular review of charges and charge capture, interaction with the
- University billing department, and other activities as appropriate to maintain the fiscal health and regulatory compliance of the department
- Serve on appropriate educational committees at the College of Medicine
- Serve on appropriate hospital committees to improve the quality of patient care
- Function as a faculty person within the statutes of the University of Illinois and as a staff member within the by-laws of the university-affiliated hospital(s)
- Other duties as assigned and appropriate to advance the mission of the Department of Medicine.
