Key Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive inpatient care during overnight hours, including admissions, consultations, and managing medical emergencies.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including specialists, nursing staff, and ancillary services, to deliver high-quality care.
Ensure timely communication with patients, families, and referring physicians to facilitate care transitions.
Participate in quality improvement initiatives, patient safety measures, and hospital protocols.
Maintain accurate and timely documentation in compliance with medical records and billing standards.
Support the training and development of residents and medical students, as applicable.
Qualifications
Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).
Licensure/Certification: Board-certified or board-eligible in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine.
Active Texas Medical License or eligibility for licensure in Texas.
Experience: Prior experience in a hospitalist or nocturnist role preferred. Demonstrated ability to manage acute inpatient care efficiently.
Skills: Strong clinical judgment and decision-making abilities. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Commitment to patient-centered care and continuous learning.
Schedule and Benefits
Schedule: PRN, 12-hour shifts.
Competitive hourly rate.
Malpractice insurance with tail coverage.
Houston Methodist Experience Considerations
Patient age groups and populations served, service essential functions, quality/safety essential functions, finance essential functions, growth/innovation essential functions, other responsibilities, and related details are described in department plans and applicable job scope.
HMPO Physician PRN
Work attire, on-call, travel requirements may apply.
- Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values: INTEGRITY, COMPASSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, EXCELLENCE.
- Practices the Caring and Serving Model
- Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards
- Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)
- Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees’ experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience
- Involves patients in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job
- Actively supports the organization’s vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values
- Refer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.
- Uniform
- Scrubs
- Business professional
- Other (department approved)
- On Call
- May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area
- May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area