Assistant Professor Neurology-Multiple Positions
- Employer
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Location
- Newark, New Jersey
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- Jun 6, 2023
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- Category
- General Neurology
- Role
- Neurologist/Physician
The Department Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is seeking highly qualified clinically-oriented Neurologists for multiple openings across numerous neurological subspecialties.
These include:
- General Neurology with an interest in headache Vascular Neurology / Stroke Multiple Sclerosis Cognitive Neurology Neuromuscular / EMGs Epileptology (Adult and/or Pediatric)
These positions complement our practice service lines in a large, community-based academic medical center. In partnership with a major health system in Northern New Jersey, we are seeking career-oriented, highly-movivated candidates who will be part of a dramatically growing clinical service.
A summary of general duties is listed but not limited to the following:
- Participate in Adult Neurology Call and weekend rounds at UH (approximate ratio 1:8).
- Participate in Floor Service at UH (approximate ratio 1:5).
- Supervise and provide care in at least one four-hour resident run UH ACC Clinic session per week.
- Work closely with emergency physicians to care for patients coming in through the emergency room.
- Educate and mentor fellows, residents, and medical students.
- Develop an outpatient practice in both the faculty practice clinic as well as the hospital ambulatory clinic.
- Participate in Community Outreach.
- Research Activity and participation in clinical trials is encouraged.
- Complete medical records and submit all charges timely.
- Complete medicare time studies and other documentation required in a timely fashion.
- Fulfill any other duties that may be assigned by the Chair of the Department.
- Educate and mentor residents and medical students
Subspecialty specific duties:
General/headache:
- Develop a Headache treatment focused outpatient practice
- Develop a clinical research focus within the Headache and/or Neurological Pain Management realm
Vascular:
- Resume primary responsibility on the stroke service for up to 18 weeks and provide supervision to residents.
- Respond to brain attack team (BAT Calls), including management of acute stroke patients.
- Examine and monitor patients who may have suffered a TIA.
- Work in collaboration with vascular surgeons, referring patients for surgery where necessary; and increasingly with interventional neuroradiologists, referring patients for clot retrieval therapy.
- Assist the Director in developing hospital and community stroke services and education in stoke.
Multiple Sclerosis
- Participate in UH Floor Service, Weekend Rounds and call as outlined above
- Develop a neuroimmunology focused outpatient practice
- Participation in clinical trials and scholarly activity
- Educate and mentor residents and medical students
Cognitive
- Participates in UH Floor Service, Weekend Rounds and call as outlined above
- Develops a cognitive neurology outpatient practive Collaborates with the Rutgers Alzheimer’s and Dementia treatment center
- Participation in clinical trials and scholarly activity Educate and mentor residents and medical students
Neuromuscular / EMGs
- Participates in UH Floor Service, Weekend Rounds and call as outlined above
- Weekly private practice patient hours which will include:
- One day per week dedicated to MDA Clinic; One day per week dedicated to EMG Lab; One and one half days dedicated to developing outpatient Neuromuscular Clinics
- Participation in research and scholarly activity; Educate and mentor residents, medical students and contribute to establishing a neuromuscular fellowship program
Adult Epileptology
- Participate in UH Floor Service, Weekend Rounds and call as outlined above
- Reads adult patient EEG reports for University Hospital (approximate ratio 1:3)
- Supervise and provide care in at least one resident teaching epilepsy clinic Assist the Director in maintaining NAEC Certification
- Participation in research and scholarly activity Educate and mentor residents and medical students
Pediatric Epileptology
- Participate in Child Neurology Call and weekend rounds at UH (approximate ratio 1:4 ]
- Participate in Floor Service at UH (approximate ratio 1 :4)
- Reads pediatric and adult patient EEG reports for University Hospital; Attending on the Pediatric Neurology Hospitalist Service at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (1 weekend a month, 4 weeks per year]; Supervise and provide care in at least one resident teaching clinic;
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