per diem Palliative Care Physician

Job Description Summary

Performe consultations and provide assessments for pain/symptom management, prognostication and goal-setting, decision making, and hospice engagement.

Job Description

• Physician shall perform the following duties as a Practitioner of the Palliative Care Program:

• Perform consultations, as requested, with assessments for pain/symptom management, prognostication and goal-setting, decision making, and hospice engagement.

• Collaborate with other Hospital departments and associated non-Hospital entities to ensure continuity of supportive and palliative patient care amongst relevant entities.

• Attend periodic continuing medical education in topics related to supportive and palliative care.

• Participate in providing supportive and palliative care education.

• Appropriately document all services and communicate with “primary” physicians as needed.

• Partner with patients and families to involve them in a Patient and Family Centered Health Care System that includes informed decision making, as well as reliably meeting patient’s needs and preferences.

Education

• MD

• Successful completion of an ACGME- or AOA-accredited residency in Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, General/Vascular Surgery, Internal Medicine, Medical Imaging, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, or Psychiatry.

• Current subspecialty certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine or active participation in the exam process.

Minimum Experience

• Meets requirements of South Shore Health medical staff bylaws

• Credentialed by SSH medical staff