Inpatient Geriatrician (Faculty)

Department Overview

The OHSU Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics has built an integrated team practice model for delivering high quality medical care and service to the patients we serve. Primary Care has a mission and values-driven culture, which includes patient care, academia, teaching, research and leadership. Commitment to excellence in patient care is mirrored in the culture, compensation and benefits enjoyed by clinicians and employees. Our practice also includes innovative models for delivering structured care to populations of patients with chronic conditions.

The full-time annual base salary range for this position is $275,000-$306,559; commensurate with experience and rank. Base pay does not include incentive pay, hiring bonuses, or additional benefits such as retirement contributions.

Function/Duties of Position

Primary clinical responsibilities include performing inpatient geriatrics consultation on patients admitted to OHSU Hospital. This includes new patient consultations as well as routine follow up consult visits for patients the team is already following. Collaboration with an interprofessional team including nurses, physicians, and advanced practice providers is a must.

This service serves as a training site for the OHSU Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, as well as for select OHSU and non-OHSU medical and non-physician trainees. Teaching should include bedside rounds and focus on techniques of eliciting a geriatrics-focused history and physical examination, expanding clinical reasoning and critical thinking, and applying and reviewing current best evidence for geriatrics practice. Teaching faculty are expected to provide pre-rotation orientation, mid-term formative feedback, and post-rotation verbal and written feedback. The faculty member will be expected to participate in continuing education, professional and faculty development and scholarship as directed by their department.

Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards: Working collaboratively with the Inpatient Geriatrics team and DGIM to further development, implementation, operation, and evaluation of the interprofessional inpatient geriatrics program to improve the care we offer to hospitalized older adults. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing detailed consult recommendations to primary inpatient teams to optimize care of frail, medically complex hospitalized older adults.
• Promoting an integrated and interprofessional approach to patient care.
• Assuring effective and efficient patient flow.
• Bedside and didactic teaching of fellows, residents, students, and other learners regarding optimal care of hospitalized older adults.
• Assisting in the ongoing development and expansion of the Inpatient Geriatrics Program.
• Partnering with case managers & social workers regarding discharge planning.
• Educating patients and families throughout the stay and upon discharge.
• Communicating with primary care and facility providers to optimize transitions across care settings.
• Using best practice clinical protocols and guidelines to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Participating in scholarly & systems improvement work associated with the Inpatient Geriatrics Program.
• Potential for some weekend shifts in the future as the team grows.

Required Qualifications

• MD/DO
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited geriatrics fellowship

Why apply to OHSU?

We are Oregon's only public academic health center. In addition to caring for patients, we lead groundbreaking research. We also train the next generation of health care professionals. As Portland's largest employer, we give you opportunities to learn and advance in a system of hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington. All are welcome. OHSU welcomes people of all ages, ethnicities, genders, national origins, religions and sexual orientations. We are striving to build an anti-racist, multicultural institution and encourage people with diverse backgrounds to apply.