Pulmonary/Critical Care opening in Boston, MA

**Pulmonary/Critical Care opening in Boston, MA**

Seeking a Board Certified Pulmonary/Critical Care specialist to join our team.

- This position will split time between perioperative intensive care, inpatient pulmonary consults and outpatient pulmonary practice.
- Step into an existing general pulmonary practice, consisting of patients with asthma, pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, obstructive sleep apnea and more.
- Resources and opportunities for clinical research are in place within the hospital, and teaching opportunities exist

**Job Description**

Practice responsibilities include management of both, ICU and Pulmonary patients:
- ICU responsibilities consist of perioperative management of complex orthopedic patients in collaboration with multidisciplinary team
- Pulmonary responsibilities consist of establishing an outpatient pulmonary practice, and providing inpatient and outpatient perioperative consultations
- ICU and Pulmonary responsibilities rotate every other week with another full time Pulmonologist/Intensivist
- 8 bed ICU consisting of mostly post-operative orthopedic and spine patients
- Closed ICU system. Intensivist manages all patients, while patients remain under the name of the surgeon of record. In-house Hospitalist coverage at night

ICU clinical responsibilities
- Coordinating medical management with surgical attending and subspecialists
- Coordinating discharge and/or transferring process for patients within the hospital or to/from outside institutions
- Out of hospital coverage requires call back within 5 to 10 minutes, and in-house availability within 30 minutes for emergencies (rare)
- Assisting the on-call hospitalists with ICU / pulmonary support during off-hours.
- Hospitalist covers the ICU, including post-operative admissions, when intensivist out of the hospital
- One weekend on-call required per month (Friday 7pm to Monday 7am) with typical in-house coverage from 8am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Weekend call shared with per diem intensivists.

Pulmonary clinical responsibilities include:
- Attend five half-day pulmonary outpatient clinics every other week, for general pulmonary referral patients and for pre-operative pulmonary consultations.