OB/Gyn Academic hospitalist needed at University Hospital in Metro TN.
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Salary
$330,000
– $350,000
• yearly
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Academic/Training Program
Location
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
10/22/24
The University of Tennessee Medical Center is a tertiary academic medical center. The hospital
serves as a referral center for Eastern Tennessee and regions of Kentucky and North Carolina.
The
inpatient obstetric service is staffed by labor and delivery nurses, patient care technicians,
OB/Gyn providers and resident physicians, with 24-hour availability for anesthesia and neonatal
care.
The Laborist
coverage provides availability, oversight, and a team of individuals whose sole focus is
managing the patient in labor during their shift. At the University of Tennessee Medical Center
we have created a hybrid model that focuses on quality, safety, and education services in
women’s healthcare (meaning, coverage expands beyond the obstetric model to include
management of the complex gynecologic medical and surgical patient). As such, our Academic
OB/Gyn Hospitalist position includes labor and delivery shifts, rotating coverage of the
gynecology service, resident continuity clinic oversight, and departmental and program
leadership.
The role of an Academic OB/GYN Hospitalist is filled by experienced physicians eager to
participate in patient care and resident education. Future candidate(s) should possess excellent
clinical and teaching skills and feel comfortable practicing in an evidence-based academic
environment with students, residents, fellows, advanced practice nurses, midwives, and
colleagues.
Implementation of the Hospitalist model allowed UTMC to:
1. Optimize patient safety and quality outcomes
2. Standardize the delivery of Obstetric services
3. Enhance the consistency of resident education
4. Improve efficiency to patient flow processes
Responsibilities
In keeping with fulfillment of the goals of the OB/Gyn Hospitalist, responsibilities include, but
are not limited to:
Staff the day shift of L&D from 7:15 am to 5pm when assigned
o Responsive to house officers (resident physicians), and maintain visibility on the
unit for majority of the day
o Responsive and communicates with Anesthesia colleagues (attending to attending
for Urgent CDs) and other attendings with purpose of helping serve in centralized
capacity alongside the RN Team Leader (Charge nurse)
o Provide comprehensive intrapartum care including: antepartum assessment, labor
management, delivery
o Provides intrapartum care for house staff patients
o Staff emergencies related to management of early pregnancy/ pregnancy loss
o Staff HS PPTLs scheduled during shift
Present and teaching at 7:15am board sign out
Communicates directly with nighttime attending at 5pm sign out
Provides postpartum rounding for complicated house staff patients
Provides oversight on triage patients
Serves as a consultant to university midwives (and Tennova midwives) when their
patients require a higher level of care
o If level of care requires physicians take over, from 7:15am-5pm this team
provides that service/care
Supervise infant circumcision for house staff neonates
Responds to OB trauma pages (picks up pager, wears pager, signs out pager)
Provides consultation along with departmental residents for low risk Emergency Room
obstetric consultation while on L&D and provides back up for MFM when not available.
Oversee and Manage House Staff (HS) GYN service(s)
o Round on inpatient HS GYN patients
o Provides advanced gynecologic care to OB/Gyn colleagues
o Staff inpatient HS GYN consults
o Staff HS ER Consults
o Staff emergent HS GYN surgeries
o Cover scheduled HS GYN Surgeries
Only emergent or scheduled minor surgeries while also covering L&D
Provide outpatient clinic services as agreed upon outside of Laborist coverage schedule
May provide on campus back up for colleagues of any group needing emergent assistance
or requesting specific short-term coverage
Participates in peer review performance improvement activities for UHS
Participates in peer review performance improvement activities for the L&D unit
Participate in L&D simulations and team training sessions
Each OB/Gyn Hospitalist may have designated, unique academic duties relative to the
Department of Ob/Gyn as a whole and will need to maintain requirements for GME as
discussed with Department Chair
Participates in GME related scholarly activity ( Grand Rounds, Didactics, Mentor
Program, Applicant Interviews, CCC, etc.)
Participate in Department committee meetings (Department meeting, PI/QI, Steering
committee, Credentialing, MEC, etc.)
Required qualifications
Doctorate degree in medicine from an accredited college approved by the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education and Hospitals of American Medical Association, a
Doctorate degree in Osteopathy from a college accredited by the American Osteopathic
Association, or by the permanent certification by the ECFMG.
Successful completion of a residency program in OB/Gyn which has been approved by
the Accreditation Council for GME.
Active Candidate of ABOG or Board Certified
Experience in performing operative vaginal deliveries and complicated cesarean
deliveries
Experience in managing postpartum patients
Schedule
Estimated monthly schedule includes: Average of 15-18 “shifts” of scheduled work per month,
not including vacation, CME, and holidays.
Shifts are defined by a combination of the any or all of the following, based on
applicants/hospitalists specific interests.
1. Labor and delivery “Laborist” (shifts are typically 7am-5pm or 5pm to 7am)
2. Resident outpatient clinic supervision, usually combined with Administrative time for
half day. May also include Student health clinic/other outpatient clinics as agreed upon
by Department chair and UHS.
3. Gynecologic surgery (includes both private patients as well as resident clinic cases/
inpatient ED and emergent surgeries)
4. Gynecologic inpatient and consult service coverage
5. Administrative duties for UHS or Academic Department
6. Selective opportunities for seeing Private outpatients, typically includes private referral
for gynecologic major surgeries.
7. Any overnight shifts are followed by 24-hour shift off
*Specific schedule will be coordinated between Department Chairman, Director of Obstetrics,
and University Health Systems.
serves as a referral center for Eastern Tennessee and regions of Kentucky and North Carolina.
The
inpatient obstetric service is staffed by labor and delivery nurses, patient care technicians,
OB/Gyn providers and resident physicians, with 24-hour availability for anesthesia and neonatal
care.
The Laborist
coverage provides availability, oversight, and a team of individuals whose sole focus is
managing the patient in labor during their shift. At the University of Tennessee Medical Center
we have created a hybrid model that focuses on quality, safety, and education services in
women’s healthcare (meaning, coverage expands beyond the obstetric model to include
management of the complex gynecologic medical and surgical patient). As such, our Academic
OB/Gyn Hospitalist position includes labor and delivery shifts, rotating coverage of the
gynecology service, resident continuity clinic oversight, and departmental and program
leadership.
The role of an Academic OB/GYN Hospitalist is filled by experienced physicians eager to
participate in patient care and resident education. Future candidate(s) should possess excellent
clinical and teaching skills and feel comfortable practicing in an evidence-based academic
environment with students, residents, fellows, advanced practice nurses, midwives, and
colleagues.
Implementation of the Hospitalist model allowed UTMC to:
1. Optimize patient safety and quality outcomes
2. Standardize the delivery of Obstetric services
3. Enhance the consistency of resident education
4. Improve efficiency to patient flow processes
Responsibilities
In keeping with fulfillment of the goals of the OB/Gyn Hospitalist, responsibilities include, but
are not limited to:
Staff the day shift of L&D from 7:15 am to 5pm when assigned
o Responsive to house officers (resident physicians), and maintain visibility on the
unit for majority of the day
o Responsive and communicates with Anesthesia colleagues (attending to attending
for Urgent CDs) and other attendings with purpose of helping serve in centralized
capacity alongside the RN Team Leader (Charge nurse)
o Provide comprehensive intrapartum care including: antepartum assessment, labor
management, delivery
o Provides intrapartum care for house staff patients
o Staff emergencies related to management of early pregnancy/ pregnancy loss
o Staff HS PPTLs scheduled during shift
Present and teaching at 7:15am board sign out
Communicates directly with nighttime attending at 5pm sign out
Provides postpartum rounding for complicated house staff patients
Provides oversight on triage patients
Serves as a consultant to university midwives (and Tennova midwives) when their
patients require a higher level of care
o If level of care requires physicians take over, from 7:15am-5pm this team
provides that service/care
Supervise infant circumcision for house staff neonates
Responds to OB trauma pages (picks up pager, wears pager, signs out pager)
Provides consultation along with departmental residents for low risk Emergency Room
obstetric consultation while on L&D and provides back up for MFM when not available.
Oversee and Manage House Staff (HS) GYN service(s)
o Round on inpatient HS GYN patients
o Provides advanced gynecologic care to OB/Gyn colleagues
o Staff inpatient HS GYN consults
o Staff HS ER Consults
o Staff emergent HS GYN surgeries
o Cover scheduled HS GYN Surgeries
Only emergent or scheduled minor surgeries while also covering L&D
Provide outpatient clinic services as agreed upon outside of Laborist coverage schedule
May provide on campus back up for colleagues of any group needing emergent assistance
or requesting specific short-term coverage
Participates in peer review performance improvement activities for UHS
Participates in peer review performance improvement activities for the L&D unit
Participate in L&D simulations and team training sessions
Each OB/Gyn Hospitalist may have designated, unique academic duties relative to the
Department of Ob/Gyn as a whole and will need to maintain requirements for GME as
discussed with Department Chair
Participates in GME related scholarly activity ( Grand Rounds, Didactics, Mentor
Program, Applicant Interviews, CCC, etc.)
Participate in Department committee meetings (Department meeting, PI/QI, Steering
committee, Credentialing, MEC, etc.)
Required qualifications
Doctorate degree in medicine from an accredited college approved by the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education and Hospitals of American Medical Association, a
Doctorate degree in Osteopathy from a college accredited by the American Osteopathic
Association, or by the permanent certification by the ECFMG.
Successful completion of a residency program in OB/Gyn which has been approved by
the Accreditation Council for GME.
Active Candidate of ABOG or Board Certified
Experience in performing operative vaginal deliveries and complicated cesarean
deliveries
Experience in managing postpartum patients
Schedule
Estimated monthly schedule includes: Average of 15-18 “shifts” of scheduled work per month,
not including vacation, CME, and holidays.
Shifts are defined by a combination of the any or all of the following, based on
applicants/hospitalists specific interests.
1. Labor and delivery “Laborist” (shifts are typically 7am-5pm or 5pm to 7am)
2. Resident outpatient clinic supervision, usually combined with Administrative time for
half day. May also include Student health clinic/other outpatient clinics as agreed upon
by Department chair and UHS.
3. Gynecologic surgery (includes both private patients as well as resident clinic cases/
inpatient ED and emergent surgeries)
4. Gynecologic inpatient and consult service coverage
5. Administrative duties for UHS or Academic Department
6. Selective opportunities for seeing Private outpatients, typically includes private referral
for gynecologic major surgeries.
7. Any overnight shifts are followed by 24-hour shift off
*Specific schedule will be coordinated between Department Chairman, Director of Obstetrics,
and University Health Systems.