PHYSICIAN - Emergency Medicine - casual - Duluth, MN

About the job

• Licensure/Certification Qualifications:
• Duluth, MN
• Annual ED volumes of 42K patients/year in a brand new state-of-the-art 40 bed ED
• Large catchment area and a full complement of collaborative specialists and subspecialists (PICU/NICU teams, pediatric sub-specialists, neuro-interventional team, STEMI team, etc)
• 8 and 9 hour shifts; double & triple physician coverage with additional APP support 7 days/week
• Admit to St. Mary’s Medical Center, the region’s tertiary referral center with adult and pediatric subspecialties; 330-bed hospital and Level I Adult and Level II Peds Trauma Center
• Full spectrum of emergency medicine care including pediatrics
• Opportunity to teach, if interested (FM residents, medical students)
• Supportive and fun work environment with kind and collaborative consultants
• Strong nurses with excellent nurse retention and mixture of experience as well as new energy
• Excellent behavioral health resources including psychiatry consult service in ED, social work, case management, safe rooms, behavioral health techs and nurses

• R egional sites: Aurora, Virginia, Moose Lake, Sandstone, Deer River, and Superior WI
• Annual ED volumes of 3.5K-12K patients/year, all level IV trauma, all admit to own hospitals
• Patients with more complex needs are often transferred to Duluth for admission
• Scheduling is flexible – all partners work in Duluth, as well as rurally at a subset of our sites – each physician finds a mix of locations that they find fulfilling
• Commute from Duluth: 10 min – 70 min (aside from Deer River, where only a couple of us work)
• Virginia & Superior: 12-hour physician shifts, with 12 hours of APP support
• Aurora, Moose Lake, Sandstone, & Deer River: single coverage, 12-hour or optional 24-hour shifts (no requirement to work 24s)
• Telemedicine support (stroke, psychiatry, NICU, hospice, cardiology)
• REQUIREMENTS
• · BC/BE Emergency Medicine
• · Excellent team player – must work well with entire ED team, as well as consultants and patients
• · Strong commitment to caring for patients both in Duluth and regionally