Job Details: Hospitalist

Description: ROVING HOSPITALIST - A Step Up from Locum Tenens
Assignments panning out not as described??
Travel/lodging unreliable??
Tired of unpredictability??
Want/need benefits??
Perhaps you should consider fulfilling the role of "roving" Hospitalist & play an integral role in re-defining hospital medicine with Sound Inpatient Physicians (SOUND).

SOUND, a physician focused Hospitalist firm; has grown from a single site in 2001 to partnerships with 25+ hospitals in a growing number of states creating "roving" Hospitalist positions with the following features and benefits:

• Option of practicing in a variety of hospital settings
• Working with SOUND means working with a physician-led team of bright, like-minded hospitalists in an atmosphere that promotes communication, collegiality, and learning
• An average 7 AM census of 12-15 patients
• Reasonable block scheduling allowing 14-15 days off monthly
• Sophisticated, web-based software application (training provided by SOUND personnel) facilitates communications and supports managing patient care
• Malpractice insurance - reducing risk -- provided at SOUND's sole expense
• Professional assistance in attaining necessary hospital privileging & (if necessary) medical license
• Paid expenses for purposes of travel and housing
• Be a SOUND employee -- enjoy competitive compensation & the most robust benefits package in hospital medicine (including profit sharing)
• Varied geographical settings ranging from Seattle & other Pacific Northwest settings, the beauty of Montana, both northern & southern California + the metropolitan settings of Denver & Phoenix

Finally, being a 'roving' Hospitalist may also provide your path to a permanent position if you wish to cure your wanderlust.

If any, or all; of the above is intriguing to you, please consider joining SOUND's expanding team of physicians embracing locum tenens as a rewarding practice style
If you have further questions please contact Beth Smith at Hospitalists@soundphysicians.com or call 1-800-850-9665.

Posting Date: Jan 29 08