Inpatient Geriatrician- Associate Professor - Military veterans preferred

Oregon Health & Science University

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Inpatient Geriatrician- Associate Professor

US-OR-Portland

Job ID: 2025-33117
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Faculty/Provider
Portland, OR (Marquam Hill)

Overview

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. Additional funding support is potentially available for the exemplary candidate who has experience in quality initiative work and is assigned to help lead facility-wide age-friendly health system efforts.

Working collaboratively with the Inpatient Geriatrics team and Division of General Internal Medicine 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.

• MD/DO  

• Completion of ACGME-accredited geriatrics fellowship

• New graduates considered

• ABIM certification

• Clinical care experience
• Individuals of diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply

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