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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
- 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
- Medical Director
- Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Tasks for “Medical Director”
- Train or supervise medical students, residents, or other health professionals.
- Prescribe medications or treatment regimens to hospital inpatients.
- Conduct discharge planning and discharge patients.
- Communicate with patients' primary care physicians upon admission, when treatment plans change, or at discharge to maintain continuity and quality of care.
- Write patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians.
- Participate in continuing education activities to maintain or enhance knowledge and skills.
- Direct the operations of short stay or specialty units.
- Attend inpatient consultations in areas of specialty.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Diagnose, treat, or provide continuous care to hospital inpatients.
- Refer patients to medical specialists, social services or other professionals as appropriate.
- Direct, coordinate, or supervise the patient care activities of nursing or support staff.
- Admit patients for hospital stays.
Related Technology & Tools
- Digital handheld thermometers
- Flexible bronchoscopes
- Pulsed Doppler ultrasounds
- Bipolar forceps
- Medication dispensing machines
- Ultrasound catheters
- Carbon dioxide monitors
- Hot biopsy forceps
- Headband magnifier lights
- Needleless injection systems
- Infusion pumps
- Splinter forceps
- Cold biopsy forceps
- Smartphones
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Laryngeal mask airways LMA
- Gastrostomy feeding tubes
- Blood glucometers
- Flexible endoscopes
- Laptop computers
- Fetal ultrasound monitors
- Gooseneck magnifiers
- Pulse oximeters
- Trocars
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Automated defibrillators
- Cannula sets
- Aspheric lens magnifiers
- Magnifier glasses
- Dressing forceps
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Central venous catheters
- Fine biopsy needles
- Indwelling catheters
- Cardiorespiratory monitors
- Electroencephalographs
- Echocardiography systems
- Galilean loupes
- Laser facsimile machines
- Endoscopic dissectors
- Surgical graspers
- Dictaphones
- Laryngoscopes
- Medical suction catheters
- Tourniquet cuffs
- Tablet computers
- Hand-held ultrasound devices
- Phonocardiographs
- Clinical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
- Pacing generators
- Suture passers
- Tongue depressors
- Ultrasonic scalpels
- Opthalmoscopes
- Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators
- Endo-cervical brushes
- Endotracheal tubes
- Vaginal specula
- Ayre's spatula
- Cytobrushes
- Wood's lamps
- Hypodermic needles
- Personal computers
- Sphygmomanometers
- Continuous wave Doppler ultrasounds
- Digital cameras
- Rigid bronchoscopes
- Neckband hanging magnifiers
- Flexible sigmoidoscopes
- Dual-mode cell phones
- Otoscopes
- Binocular light compound microscopes
- Pressure infusers
- Invasive blood pressure monitors
- Capnograph monitors
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Inflation devices
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Global positioning system GPS software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Voice recognition software
- Microsoft Office
- Email software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Medical procedure coding software
- Medical reference software
- Billing software
- MDeverywhere
- Web browser software
- Medical decision support software
- Computerized physician order entry CPOE software
- Epocrates Essentials