Infectious Disease Faculty Physician Needed in Beautiful San Antonio
Company: Ardent Health Services
Location: Tyler
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler seeks an
Infectious Disease physician to join the faculty at the Texas
Center for Infectious Disease (TCID) in San Antonio, Texas. Job
Description:The physician will work Monday through Friday to
provide inpatient management of general medical conditions such as
hypertension, diabetes, anemia and stable chronic kidney disease in
addition to the patients' mycobacterial disease. The ID physicians
will help direct the TB therapy, if the physician joining the
practice is not familiar or comfortable with management of
tuberculosis. The physician will also rotate weekends taking calls
from home. Key Responsibilities:
- Performs patient history and physical at the time of
admission.
- Rounds on patients in the hospital daily Monday through
Friday.
- Rounds daily with nursing staff to review acute events and the
patient care plan.
- Participates regularly in multidisciplinary rounds.
- Maintains appropriate records.
- Teaches residents and fellows rotating from outside
institutions such as UT San Antonio
- Works with staff to provide the highest quality patient
care.
- Participates in quality improvement initiatives.About TCID: The
Texas Center for Infectious disease (TCID) in San Antonio, TX is a
unique and premier in-patient facility created to care for patients
with tuberculosis. Patients are admitted to TCID when they are
experiencing complications with therapy or when they have drug
resistant disease. The facility was built to support patient
treatment and medical care while ensuring the safety and security
of staff. A patient's stay in TCID can range from a few months to
up to two years. Patient rooms are designed to be more home-like
than a typical hospital to accommodate longer stays, and each room
is designed as an airborne isolation room with the heating and air
conditioning ventilation system designed to allow the airflow to be
changed from negative pressure to neutral when a patient is no
longer contagious. TCID plays a pivotal role in treating patients
with TB in Texas as well as neighboring states, and the campus
houses the Heartland National TB Center, a TB regional training and
medical consultation center funded by the Centers for Disease
Control (CDC).Currently, two infectious disease physicians care for
the patients in TCID in addition to teaching, students, residents
and fellows from the UT Health Science Center. We are looking to
expand our staff to include another physician to meet the state's
increasing needs in TB patient care.Our team is dedicated to
helping this very special patient population, and we enjoy working
in a truly multidisciplinary environment.About UTHCT: The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler has provided the
clinical faculty to TCID for more than 20 years. The TCID faculty
are members of the UTHSCT faculty, though they live and work in San
Antonio. This is the result of a very long relationship between
UTHSCT and the care of patients with tuberculosis. Graduate Medical
Education is an integral component at UTHSCT and includes
accredited residency programs in Family Medicine, Internal
Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Psychiatry. We encourage you
to learn more by visiting our website at www.uthct.edu.More
Information: San Antonio is an affordable metropolitan city
offering a wonderful mix of local attractions including outdoor
activities, cultural amenities, shopping, family amusements, and
fine dining.- Friendly, relaxed environment within the beautiful
Texas Hill Country- A family-oriented lifestyle- The climate in
central Texas provides great weather for outdoor activities all
year long!- Affordable housing and low cost of living with
increasing home values- No state income tax and tort reform in
Texas
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