Gastroenterology Hospital Based job located in South Carolina
Job Description
Facility is seeking Locum BC Gastroenterologist to provide float pool coverage across 3 locations
- Start date: 10/5/2025
- 6 month block minimum with option to extend
- Schedule: 7a-4p, w/offsite call, and returning for emergencies only
- With off-site coverage being from 4 pm to 6:59 am the following morning
- Level 1 trauma
- Practice Type: Hospital, Outpatient Clinic & Free standing GI Center
- 100% Adults
- Support Staff: 5 other physicians onsite, 9mid-levels (6 IP/3 OP), OR team and CRNAs at the ASC. APPs to assist with rounding
- Required Procedures: upper GI endoscopy with biopsy, Esophageal dilatation/manometry, manometry interpretation, small bowel biopsy, lower GI endoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy (w/ biopsy and w/ excision of poly)
- Preferred Proc: Upper GI endoscopy (foreign body removal, cautery vs laser, injections with varices, banding of varices, ERCP, EUS, liver biopsy, insertion/management of Sengstaken/Blakemore tube, Advanced endo
- Call consists of inpatient rounding and inpatient/outpatient procedures.
- On a weekday the most volume seen at Facility 1 over the past 4 months has been 16 new patients for inpatient consults in one day. There is APP assistance for rounding on the “established” patients and can assist with the new admits requiring consults. Average new is closer to 10.
- On a weekday at Facility 2 the highest volume is 10 new patients. Average is closer to 6. There is APP assistance for rounding on the “established” patients and can assist with the new admits requiring consults.
- We do have transfers from Facility 3 when there are emergent issues that unable to be stabilized and seen by a physician in the AM the following day.
- Currently, advanced procedures are only performed at Facility 1. We do expect a locum’s provider to travel to Facility 1 to perform advanced endoscopy when they are covering Faciliy 2, if needed and the physician is capable. The travel time between hospitals is 10 minutes at the most and is 1.5 mile travel distance.
- Procedures will not exceed 15 but is more likely to sit between 8-12 being a mixture of EGDs, Colonoscopy’s, advanced Endo if possible. The highest volume we have reached in the past 4 months was 12 procedures.
- Required: SC license, ACLS, BLS, DEA, CSR, flu vaccine