Acute Medicine Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Speaking with patients to better understand their concerns, needs, conditions, and medical histories.
• Admitting, discharging, and doing scheduled rounds to check on patients.
• Performing examinations, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, and going over results with patients or the physician, if necessary.
• Establishing care or condition management plans, including prescribing medications or other treatments.
• Educating the patient and family members about medical conditions and courses of action.
• Keeping records regarding patient history, condition, treatments, and progress.
• Alerting physicians when conditions worsen or if abnormalities arise.
• Participating in the on-call program, which may include working nights, holidays, and weekends.