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