JOB SUMMARY

/RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Provides emergency surgery/trauma call coverage, including assessment, surgery if needed, consultation, rounding and follow-up of patients.

Fosters teamwork and communication among all internal and external constituencies.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Provides in-house services as scheduled by the Medical Director or designee.

Serves as the attending physician for his/her own patients in the SICU and serves as a consultant when requested.

Assists the attending and/or consultant physician in the management of patients in the SICU.

In emergent situations in the SICU, when the physician is not the attending or consultant, evaluates and stabilizes patients until an attending or consultant physician can be contacted and/or arrives.

Directs the management of such patient until such time as the attending or consultant physician arrives to assume responsibility to direct care. The attendi...