Urohospitalist | $700K Guaranteed Starting Salary | Exceptional Work-Life Balance
Urohospitalist | $700K Guaranteed Starting Salary | Exceptional Work-Life Balance - Mattoon, Illinois
Job Description
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Practice Details
- We are seeking a Board-Certified/Board-Eligible Urologist to join our team as a Urohospitalist, providing dedicated inpatient and emergency urologic care.
- This position is designed for a urologist who enjoys acute-care medicine and procedural urology while minimizing or eliminating the responsibilities associated with building and maintaining a traditional outpatient practice.
- The Urohospitalist will work closely with hospitalists, emergency medicine physicians, surgeons, advanced practice providers, and other specialists to provide timely urologic consultation and treatment to hospitalized patients.
Position Highlights
- Hospital-based urology position focused primarily on inpatient consults, emergency urologic care, and surgical/procedural cases
- Evaluate and manage urologic consultations originating from the Emergency Department and inpatient services
- Diagnose and treat acute urologic conditions, including urinary obstruction, kidney stones, urinary retention, hematuria, infections, trauma, and other urgent urologic conditions
- Perform appropriate inpatient and emergency procedures and surgeries, including cystoscopy, ureteral stent placement, stone procedures, management of urinary obstruction, and other procedures based on clinical need
- Provide postoperative management and follow-up for hospitalized urology patients
- Collaborate closely with Emergency Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Critical Care, General Surgery, Oncology, Nephrology, and other specialties
- Help improve access to urologic care while reducing the burden of hospital and emergency call on outpatient urologists
- Opportunity to focus on acute-care urology without the demands of developing a traditional outpatient patient panel
- Schedule structured to provide predictable time on and time off and promote excellent work-life balance
- Supported by an established hospital infrastructure, operating rooms, imaging, laboratory services, nursing, and ancillary teams
Responsibilities
The Urohospitalist will provide timely evaluation and treatment of patients requiring urgent or inpatient urologic care. Responsibilities may include emergency department consultations, inpatient consultations, surgical intervention when appropriate, coordination of patient care, discharge planning, and arranging outpatient follow-up when necessary.
The physician will also work collaboratively with medical staff and hospital leadership to develop efficient clinical pathways and protocols for common acute urologic conditions.
Qualifications
Successful candidates will be:
- MD or DO
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Urology
- Eligible for medical licensure in the state of practice
- Eligible for hospital medical staff privileges
- Comfortable managing a broad range of acute and inpatient urologic conditions
- Committed to high-quality, patient-centered, collaborative care
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate enjoys the clinical variety and procedural nature of urology but prefers a hospital-focused practice model. This opportunity may be particularly attractive to urologists seeking a predictable schedule, reduced outpatient administrative responsibilities, and the ability to concentrate on treating patients with immediate urologic needs.
Community Details
- Throughout our region, you'll find specialty stores and family-owned diners in which the owners greet you with a hardy "hello" and make you feel immediately welcomed.
- You'll find strong support for our schools both public and private. At times, the schools are the center of activity and our lives can revolve around them.
- With Eastern Illinois University in Charleston and University of Illinois just 45 minutes north in Champaign-Urbana, you'll enjoy the arts through countless musical and theatre arts performances.
- Our communities are safe, and you will likely come to know all your neighbors and many of the families with whom your children may attend school. Because we tout a 10 to 15-minute door-to-door commute, you can easily attend your children's events and reach appointments with ease.
- We are all about recreation. There are plenty of golf courses, several amazing lakes for boating and fishing, and state parks for picnicking, hiking and camping. Children stay busy throughout the summer with summer recreation programs.
Compensation Details
- Starting salary of $700,000
- Sign on bonus of $75,000
- Retention bonus of $100,000
- Comprehensive benefit package
- And much more!
Top Five Things to Do
- Bagelfest
- EIU Symphony Orchestra & Musical Venues
- Greenwood School Museum
- Lake Mattoon
- Mattoon Country Club