Moonlighter Physician

The purpose of this position is to provide all physician care coverage needed by patients under care of the NHLBI inpatient services.” Specific duties include communicating with the attending physician regarding “questions, concerns, or major events,” providing admission and on-call care, documenting interventions in the medical record, and assessing “acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities

• Ph.D./MD - Board Certified

• Obtain Maryland medical license within 90 days of hire

• Biology

• Molecular Biology

• Microsoft Suite

• Thorough understanding of the complexity of medical research in humans

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Meet with lab members to present updates - Weekly

• Updates will be provided to the coordinator, Attending Physician and other Medical Staff as needed. - Weekly

• Communicate with the responsible attending physician or designated fellow for each patient on any questions, concerns, or major events involving these inpatients during their time on call. - 1
• Document any interventions or clinically relevant discussion in the patient's medical record and communicate these to the relevant clinical care team at the conclusion of coverage. - 2
• Distinguish between normal and abnormal findings and determine which findings need further evaluation and/or collaboration assessment. - 3

• Designs and performs original immunological research.

• Conduct and evaluate diagnostic tests, balancing risks and benefits to establish treatment plans and conducting immunological therapies.

• Work as a member of a multidisciplinary clinical team to provide comprehensive care to patients in a research environment.

• Demonstrate expertise in related healthcare, individual initiative and independent judgement.

• Evaluates, tests and implements new processes, methodologies and tools for complex immunological testing and research.

• Research emerging trends, methodologies and approaches to cellular immunology and immune cell function, as well as relevant cellular and antibody-based immunological techniques.

• Write admission notes on stable patients admitted for routine evaluations, admit acutely ill patients to the NHLBI wards, and assume responsibility for their care during hours covered by the service.

• Medically diagnose common short-term or stable chronic health problems, injuries and illnesses.

• Monitor and evaluate health effects related to new/ongoing protocol studies.

• Provide medical evaluation and longitudinal follow-up of participants enrolled in clinical trials.

• Evaluate, modify and revise care plan at appropriate intervals.

• Assess acute and non-acute clinical problems and toxicities as well as assess needs and/or problem areas and plan appropriate therapeutic measures.

• Diagnose and monitor common acute or stable chronic health problems, injuries, and illnesses making assessments of acute and nonacute clinical problems and toxicities.

• Documents research findings and maintains accurate logs and records of all experimental activities and outcomes.

• Input accurate record of all research activities and findings in in-house databases and repositories.

• Prepare routine status updates and outcome briefings to peer researchers and senior program executives.

• Provide routine activity updates and briefings to senior researchers and program executives.

• Complete in-depth documentation through written progress notes, dictation summaries and communication with referring physicians according to medical record documentation requirements.

• Perform comprehensive health care assessments by obtaining health and family medical histories.

• Complete physical examinations.

• Perform clinical data recording and medical chart entries.

• Maintain and complete medical records and place orders for medications and tests.

• Perform retrievals from electronic medical information system.

• Interpret and document diagnostic tests and studies related to clinical trial interventions and patient conditions.

• Provide documentation and monitoring/grading of side effects related to a variety of study interventions including drugs and psychological behaviors.

• Provides subject matter expertise to senior scientists and program executives.

• Consult with diverse, cross-functional stakeholder groups to identify opportunities, develop problem statements and understand context to inform research strategies.

• Provide a highly proficient level of professional health care to patients.

• Provide clear communication to the nursing team.

• Explain the plan of care/discharge needs to the incoming on-call resident as well as the patient’s assigned case manager at sign out.

• Provide coverage for the post-call resident’s patients, while working closely with the inpatient/fellowship staff.

• Prepares results of experimental findings for presentation and publication.

• Produce final reports and presentations of experiments and findings for distribution internally among researchers and senior administrators.

• Review and edit papers, reports, presentations and articles produced by other researchers for distribution internally and externally.

• Participate in clinical rounds and conferences.