Job Description

Join our Team at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA as a Physician - Surgical Hospitalist.

The primary responsibility of the Surgical Hospitalist is in-house medical coverage of General, Vascular, and Cardiothoracic patients. The Surgical Hospitalist will function in a primary role managing inpatients for these sections. The incumbent would be expected to manage medical care not requiring specialty skills unique to surgeons. In support of the surgical hospitalist, surgical attendings for these specialties will be available for immediate consultation by telephone or in the hospital as necessary.

The major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Medical management of surgical inpatients; including patients on the ward, transitional care units, and intensive care units

a. Notify the on-call surgical attending of any major change in ...