Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor (Hospitalist Nocturnist) - Emergency Medicine, McGovern Medical School

McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, a leading academic health center, invites applications for a full-time Assistant/Associate Professor (Hospitalist Nocturnist) position in the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Responsibilities as a member of the Hospitalist Team will include providing:

Our evening and overnight coverage offers scheduling options beyond a traditional 7-on/7-off block.

Clinical care

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based care to acutely hospitalized adults at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, serving as attending of record on teaching and non-teaching services.

• Supervise residents, medical students, and advanced practice providers where assigned.

• Share night and weekend coverage equitably with fellow clinical faculty, with some night support provided by our nocturnist team.

• Participate in geographic rounding to support our subspecialty services, with opportunities in both supervisory (teaching) and independent (non-teaching) general medicine roles based on your interests and the Division’s needs.

• Collaborate with nursing, case management, pharmacy, and subspecialty teams to support safe, timely, patient-centered care and efficient throughput.

Education

• Teach medical students and residents at the bedside, in didactic conferences, seminars, lectures, and case presentations.

• Participate in Departmental meetings and teaching conferences.

• Serve as a role model for professionalism, communication, leadership, and clinical reasoning, and mentor learners, junior colleagues, and clinical staff.

• Quality, systems, and leadership

• Participate in quality improvement, patient safety, and interdisciplinary performance improvement programs, including follow-up on patient and family concerns.

• Identify patient and family needs and help develop new programs or services to meet them.

• Work with UTHealth and hospital leadership to define Division direction and achieve goals in length of stay, throughput, and care transitions.

• Serve on or chair committees and workgroups as appropriate.

Scholarship and professional growth

• Pursue scholarly activity (QI, medical education, clinical research, or other) and support the Division’s education and research mission.

• Maintain professional growth through seminars, workshops, current literature, and professional affiliations.

Qualifications:

• Texas Medical License or eligibility for licensure in Texas.

• Board-certified or eligible.