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Job Description
Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1069.03
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Hospitalists”.
Also Known As…
- Hospitalists
- Medical Director
- Inpatient Services Director
- Hospitalist Program Director
- Hospitalist Medical Director
- Hospitalist
- Hospital Medicine Director
- Chief of Internal Medicine
- Chief of Hospital Medicine
- Associate Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine
- Academic Hospitalist
- Pediatric Hospitalist
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hospitalist
- Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Tasks for “Chief of Internal Medicine”
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
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