Physician Pulmonology - Competitive Salary

Company: Summit Recruiting Group
Location: Boston
Posted on: July 8, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description Pulmonary Critical Care Physician opening in Boston, MAJob Description:Orthopedic specialty teaching hospital in Boston, is now recruiting for a Board Certified Pulmonary Critical Care Specialist to join our team. This position will split time between perioperative intensive care, inpatient pulmonary consults and outpatient pulmonary practice. You will have the opportunity to step into an existing general pulmonary practice, consisting of patients with asthma, pulmonary hypertension, emphysema, obstructive sleep apnea and more. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with physicians from a variety of specialties and have an interest in growing their career as an active contributor to our Department of Medicine. Resources and opportunities for clinical research are in place within the hospital, and teaching opportunities exist within the Harvard Medical School for the right candidate.Recruitment Position: - Full-time position - Credentials: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine trained physician, with ABMS certification/eligibility in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. - Practice setting: Delivering perioperative pulmonary and critical care to a predominantly elective orthopedic surgery patient population, in an orthopedic specialty acute care hospital in Boston, MA. Job Description: - Practice responsibilities include management of both, ICU and Pulmonary patients: - ICU responsibilities consist of perioperative management of complex orthopedic patients in collaboration with multidisciplinary team - Pulmonary responsibilities consist of establishing an outpatient pulmonary practice, and providing inpatient and outpatient perioperative consultations - ICU and Pulmonary responsibilities rotate every other week with another full time Pulmonologist/Intensivist - 8 bed ICU consisting of mostly post-operative orthopedic and spine patients - Closed ICU system. Intensivist manages all patients, while patients remain under the name of the surgeon of record. In-house Hospitalist coverage at night - ICU clinical responsibilities - Coordinating medical management with surgical attending and subspecialists - Coordinating discharge and/or transferring process for patients within the hospital or to/from outside institutions - Out of hospital coverage requires call back within 5 to 10 minutes, and in-house availability within 30 minutes for emergencies (rare) - Assisting the on-call hospitalists with ICU / pulmonary support during off-hours. - Hospitalist covers the ICU, including post-operative admissions, when intensivist out of the hospital - One weekend on-call required per month (Friday 7pm to Monday 7am) with typical in-house coverage from 8am to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Weekend call shared with per diem intensivists. - Pulmonary clinical responsibilities include: - Attend five half-day pulmonary outpatient clinics every other week, for general pulmonary referral patients and for pre-operative pulmonary

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