Physician | Supportive Medicine

Join City of Hope as a full-time Fellowship-trained, Supportive Medicine (Palliative Care) physician in South Pasadena. This clinical position offers an exciting opportunity to provide patient-centered care in collaboration with world-class medical, surgical, and radiation cancer specialists across ambulatory clinics and inpatient teams. Candidates will help grow a new ambulatory program while delivering comprehensive palliative care across the cancer treatment trajectory.

Practice Info

• Outpatient at City of Hope Clinical Network Site, South Pasadena
• Social work support on site
• Opportunity to collaborate and grow new ambulatory program at clinical network site for City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Primarily cover one ambulatory location (South Pasadena), with partial inpatient coverage at the Duarte National Medical Center
• Inpatient at City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered care in collaboration with our team of world class, nationally recognized team of medical, surgical, and radiation cancer specialists
• Provide inpatient teams, ambulatory clinics, telehealth, and interdisciplinary care coordination
• Collaborate and grow new ambulatory program at clinical network site for City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Primarily cover one ambulatory location (South Pasadena), with partial inpatient coverage at the Duarte National Medical Center
• Partner with multidisciplinary team at Duarte site
• Answer pager/secure chat 8AM - 5PM Saturday and Sunday
• Partner with on-call physician to see new consults and follow ups on Saturday and Sunday

Compensation

• Base Salary Range: $275,000 - $375,000 depending on rank
• The range listed is exclusively for base compensation for full-time employment and does not include incentive compensation or benefits
• Actual compensation will be adjusted for experience, training, hospital/community need and other factors

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package, including a generous retirement contribution plan
• Relocation assistance may be available
• City of Hope Medical Group Benefits

Shift & Schedule

• Full-time position
• Schedule is approximately half outpatient
• Outpatient days are typically 8-hour shifts (8am-5pm)
• Outpatient consult visits can range from 30-60 minutes, follow-up visits range from 20- 30 minutes
• 4.5 day/week will be clinical
• 0.5 day/week will be for clinical administrative time
• Average of 6-10 patients per half day of clinic
• Approximately 50% of the outpatient practice is telemedicine
• Weekday Expectation: 5-day work week (8AM - 5PM)
• Census target per physician: 8-10 patients per day
• Inpatient encounters per weekday: >= 6 encounters
• Inpatient encounters per week (5 weekdays): >=30 encounters
• Weekend Expectation: In person coverage for Saturday and Sunday (8AM - 5PM)
• Inpatient encounters will vary per weekend, approximate expectation: >= 6 encounters
• On Call Expectation: 7 day coverage, Friday 5pm - Friday 5pm

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate would be 5 + years' postgraduate experience in Outpatient/inpatient Palliative Care, interested in providing symptomatic and palliative care primarily to patients with cancer, with a strong skillset in collaboration and a desire to build a new ambulatory program (preferred)
• Outstanding clinician with an impeccable reputation and successful track record of high-quality clinical outcomes
• Oncology/hematology experience required
• Academic record consistent with appointment Assistant, Associate or Professor level at an ACGME accredited program is a plus but not required
• Applicants must have an M.D., D.O. or equivalent degree from an accredited educational institution
• Boarded in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Possession of, or eligibility for, unrestricted medical license in the State of California
• Able to develop strong partnerships and relationships with other leaders including Hematology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and Surgery
• Demonstrated ability to set and meet strategic clinical goals
• Demonstrated ability to launch and grow clinical programs