Job Details

Jefferson Health is a leading academic health system serving the Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey regions. With a commitment to excellence in patient care, education, and research, Jefferson Health encompasses multiple hospitals, outpatient centers, and a vast network of healthcare professionals.

Job Description

This position is a one-year fellowship designed for internists to achieve proficiency in POCUS and also to become leaders in this emerging niche of Internal Medicine. Fellows will work clinically part-time in the Division of Hospital Medicine as a night hospitalist at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Responsibilities will include supervision of admitting residents, and direct care of hospital medicine patients on non-house staff services performing both cross coverage and admitting duties. Nocturnists work 12-hour shifts in a team of 3 in house attendings per night. Fellowship training involves weekly ultrasound shifts with graded supervision by faculty divided between inpatient, outpatient, ED, and ICU; Weekly Quality Assurance, Imaging review, and Journal club; Flexible clinical schedule; Research and project mentorship; Participation in regional and nationalultrasound conferences; Development of administrative skills, experience to credential colleagues in POCUS, and experience to conduct a quality assurance program.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address

1025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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