Family Medicine Hospitalist, 20-RAH-FAM-MHH-93c

Responsibilities/Duties:

Alberta Health Services is inviting applications from Family Physicians to join the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) inpatient Psychiatry units in the role of hospitalist/clinical associate. The Department of Addictions and Mental Health at RAH consists of 36 inpatient psychiatry beds spread over two units, including 6 psychiatry ICU beds. The hospitalist would have responsibilities to both of these units and would also be involved in the medical evaluation for electroconvulsive therapy.

The successful candidates will integrate into the multi-disciplinary team with the purpose of assessing and monitoring medical co-morbidities of the psychiatric inpatients. The successful candidate will work Monday and Friday mornings, joining one other physician, who is currently working Wednesday mornings. The responsibilities for successful individuals will include performing Admission History and Physicals on all new inpatients and responding to consults from staff psychiatrists for existing inpatients. Duties will also include following up on tests ordered, assessing progress on interventions, and monitoring medical co-morbidities. Hospitalists will communicate with the Psychiatry team (staff physicians, residents, and medical students) and multidisciplinary staff in a timely and collegial manner. This will include consult and progress notes on the chart. Attendance on the wards is expected two mornings/week (Mondays and Fridays) and start no earlier than 7 am and will likely require 4 hours per morning.

There is no on-call requirement for this position. Hospitalists will be notified of new consults and admissions by the unit clerks or charge nurses by telephone from 8 am to 5 pm.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital will transition to Connect Care (computerized patient records) in May 2022. Training will be provided if such training has not already been completed.