Job ID: 164
Type: Physicians
State: NC
Area: One hour from Raleigh
Specialty: HOSPITALIST
Description: Facility is seeking a full-time Hospitalist Physician for a unique integrated clinical and academic faculty role
--This position will function collaboratively as part of a core group of four academic hospitalists, working together to cross-cover hospital service and medical school responsibilities to ensure continuity, flexibility, and mission alignment across both clinical and educational domains.
--50% Clinical Time – Structured as one week per month of inpatient hospitalist service (7 consecutive 12-hour shifts; 84 hours total per service block)
--50% Academic Time – Dedicated protected time supporting undergraduate medical education across all four years of the medical school curriculum
--This role is ideal for a physician passionate about academic medicine who values both high-quality inpatient care and active engagement in curriculum development, classroom teaching, and clinical education.
--Clinical Responsibilities (50%)
- Provide comprehensive inpatient internal medicine care during scheduled service weeks.
- Manage adult admissions, consultations, observation patients, and transfers.
- Perform history and physical examinations, diagnostic evaluations, and treatment plans for hospitalized patients.
- Interpret laboratory data, imaging, and diagnostic studies to guide clinical decision-making.
- Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and coordinate care with nursing, pharmacy, case management, and consulting specialists.
- Participate in discharge planning and transitions of care.
- Contribute to hospital quality initiatives including readmission reduction, sepsis management, length-of-stay optimization, and patient safety programs.
- Participate in hospital committees and quality improvement initiatives as appropriate.
- Serve as a clinical educator and professional role model for students during inpatient service.
- Preferred clinical experience may include ICU-level care exposure, procedural competency (e.g., paracentesis, central line placement, lumbar puncture), and ACLS proficiency.
--Academic Responsibilities (50%)
Pre-Clerkship (Years 1–2)
- Lead and develop active learning sessions in foundational sciences with clinical integration.
- Facilitate small-group case-based learning.
- Serve as a clinical skills preceptor in history-taking, physical examination, and clinical reasoning.
- Teach pathophysiology correlations in organ-system blocks.
- Participate in simulation sessions, standardized patient encounters, and OSCE development.
- Contribute to longitudinal themes such as professionalism, systems-based practice, interprofessional education, and social determinants of health.
Clerkship (Year 3)
- Precept third-year students on inpatient internal medicine rotations.
- Provide bedside teaching, case discussions, and structured feedback.
- Assist in student assessment and narrative evaluations.
- Support remediation and early identification of students needing additional guidance.
Advanced Clinical (Year 4)
- Precept sub-internships and advanced electives.
- Mentor students preparing for residency in Internal Medicine or related specialties.
- Support transition-to-residency programming.
- Curriculum Development & Academic Leadership
--Contribute to development and refinement of curriculum across all four years.
--Assist in creating learning objectives, assessments, and evaluation tools aligned with LCME standards.
--Participate in academic committees and governance.
--Engage in educational quality improvement.
--Collaborate with faculty across specialties to ensure vertical and horizontal integration of content.
--Participate in faculty development initiatives.
--Engage in scholarly activity related to medical education, clinical innovation, or quality
--Required: NC license, BC/BE in Internal Medicine
Community/Facility info: An acute-care hospital offering quality care in open-heart surgery, home health and hospice, cancer treatment, maternity services, emergency medicine, pediatric intensive care, wellness programs in a thriving, diverse community of 300,000 residents. The city was honored by the National Civic League with its All-America City Award in 2001. The award recognized the collaboration between the city's public and private sectors to address and improve quality-of-life issues. Education plays a major role in the County. Our 84 primary and secondary public schools and many private schools offer educational choices in both religious and secular settings. A community college, a private liberal arts college and a state university round out the post-secondary educational opportunities.
Contact: For more information please contact Ben Ferro at [email protected] or call 716-689-6000.