The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine is seeking a transitional care physician with particular interest in presurgical optimization and perioperative management to join our team at the Center for Perioperative Medicine (CPM). The Center for Perioperative Medicine is URMCs award-winning perioperative optimization clinic which provides care for over
70,000 surgical and procedural patients each year. This role would involve collaboration to develop novel care pathways for a variety of perioperative patients, including ambulatory orthopedic joint arthroplasty patients, under the support and direction of the Director of the CPM. We are looking for a motivated, collaborative, and creative physician with a background in either internal medicine, family medicine,
internal medicine-pediatric medicine, or emergency medicine. The ideal candidate will have a passion for perioperative evaluation, risk assessment, and patient optimization across our tertiary and community hospitals, as well as our ambulatory surgical centers. Strong interdisciplinary collaboration skills are essential. A successful candidate will: • Embrace working with leaders in perioperative medicine,
anesthesiology, and orthopedic surgery • Understand the value of quality improvement in healthcare and be open to integrating QI principles into the development and growth of the pathways created • Understand the importance of patient and system optimization and be willing to learn how to highlight these elements in clinical practice • Be excited to develop and participate in a program that will strive to provide
best evidence-based care, in a safety-net and transitional care model • Actively participate in and collaborate on the provision of perioperative care from decision to operate through a warm hand-off to primary care • Be passionate about issues affecting access to care and about creating a highly functioning perioperative surgical home m
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