Job Description
Role and Facility Information
The Department of Medicine at Eagle Ridge Hospital is recruiting two general internists skilled in the management of complex inpatients. Responsibilities will include a combination of clinical care, teaching, and quality improvement with the mix of responsibilities depending on the successful candidate’s background and job profile. Competitive candidates will possess outstanding clinical, communication, teaching, and interpersonal skills that enable them to work collaboratively with other physicians, learners, hospital staff and administrators.
Currently Eagle Ridge Hospital has an existing High Acuity Unit/Monitored Care Unit(MCU) which is fully staffed by 3 existing Internists.
The two new Internists hired will be involved in the development and running of a new inpatient 15 bed Internal Medicine unit(IMU) for medically complex patients. The internists will have MRP responsibilities for these patients. Coverage will be 7 days per week, responsibilities will be shared with the other full time Internist. On-call evening/overnight coverage provided by the MCU internist.
IMU internist will also staff the IM Rapid Access Clinic(RAC). All RAC overhead including office space and MOA covered by the hospital.
The fee model will be a mix of alternative payment plan(APP) and fee for service (FFS).
Separate hospitalist service will look after majority of other admitted medical inpatients, with excellent relationship between internists and hospitalists.
Our goal is to foster excellence in clinical practice in a collegial atmosphere, with attention to work-life balance and personal and professional development.
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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Compensation Compensation Type Alternative Payment Arrangement
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Job Tags
Full time, Night shift, Afternoon shift,