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Critical Care Position in beautiful PALM SPRINGS, CA

Specialty: Critical Care Medicine

Facility: EmCare Inc.
Location: Palm Springs , California
USA
Degree: MD
Years Partnership: N/A
Board Status: BC/BE
Fellowship Required: Yes
Certification: No Preference
Beginning Comp.: 325k
Potential Comp.: 350k +
Perm/Locum: See Notes - Perm
Workload: Full or Part-time
Position Type:
  • Not Specified
Directorship: No
Schedule Description: Flexible
Shift Description: 7-7
Requirements:
  • Critical Care
Company: Envision Physician Services


Desert Regional Medical Center is a 387-bed Tertiary Acute Care Hospital located in Palm Springs. The Emergency Department is the Coachella Valley’s only designated Trauma Center, serving more than 8,000 square miles of Southeastern California. Desert Regional Medical Center offers a comprehensive array of services that includes: Emergency/Trauma Services, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute of Clinical Orthopedics and Neurosciences, Bariatric Specialists, Joslin Diabetes Center, El Mirador Imaging Center and inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services. Desert Regional Medical Center has received The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval, its highest level of certification, for their Advanced Primary Stroke Center and Advanced Congestive Heart Failure program.

Critical Care Department

  • Level II Trauma
  • Average Encounters Daily- 14-17
  • Trauma Services: Dedicated operating room, the 8 bed ICU/32 bed Neuro/Trauma Pavilion.
    • Separate Neuro ICU support
    • Pulm ICU Closed
  • EmCare staffed HM program generates excellent collaboration and support
  • 24 hrs of physician coverage daily
    • (12hr shifts: 7:00 – 7:00)

Minimum Requirements:

  • Required previous experience - Documentation of the performance of at least 20 critical

care procedures during the past two years and at least 25 CME hours biannually related to

appropriate specialty for critical care medicine

  • Current Board Certification or active participation in the examination process leading to Board Certification in primary specialty.
  • Current privileges in primary specialty
  • Minimal Formal training: Successful completion of a postgraduate Fellowship training program in Critical Care medicine accredited by the ACGME, AOA, UCNS or equivalent; or have all of the following equivalent qualifications: Appropriate current experience in the practice of Critical Care Medicine with an accredited training in Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Anesthesia or General Surgery.
  • Current ACLS or ATLS certification.
  • Current experience and ability to manage common Critical Care conditions including but not limited to: Hemodynamic instability, respiratory failure, acute neurological insults, acute renal failure, acute life threatening endocrine or metabolic derangements, drug overdoses, serious infections and nutritional failure requiring nutritional support (Occasionally, other qualified consultants may be called to help manage these conditions.)