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PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - DUKE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Employer
Duke University
Location
Durham

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Auto req ID
104716BR
Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER
Job Code
1631 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT
Job Description
The Emergency Department at Duke University Medical Center has an opening for a Physician Assistant. The Advance Practice Providers are utilized to their full potential including clinical coverage of the main ED, Fast Track, and Observation Unit. Clinical teaching is also required and research involvement is encouraged & available. Minimum requirements include 2 years of Emergency Medicine experience and Master Level or eligibility educational background. Appropriate North Carolina licensure and certification.
 
The Duke Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center provides state-of-the-art emergency care to patients and their families 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our outstanding and diverse faculty and staff treat acutely ill and injured patients and loved ones in an environment that is safe, respectful, and conducive to their health and well-being.
 
The mission of emergency medicine professionals throughout Duke University Health System is to provide the most sophisticated emergency care for patients and their families. We strive to achieve this goal by:

Immediately treating patients determined to be in shock or suffering from acute conditions that threaten life or limb Stabilizing and preventing complications in critical care patients. Providing patients with the appropriate analgesia needed to manage their pain. Delivering patient- and family-focused care in an environment that is safe, respectful, and conducive to health and well-being. Working with patients and families to develop timely, appropriate, and cost-effective care plans that adhere to emergency medicine standards of practice.
  
Each year, the board-certified physicians in Duke’s Emergency Department (ED) treat more than 75,000 patients from Durham, Wake, and Orange Counties and surrounding areas.  All three EDs in the Duke University Health System are fully staffed by emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and related medical personnel.
 
Patients arrive at the Emergency Department with illnesses and injuries that range from fairly minor to potentially fatal. Those suffering from acute physical or mental health emergencies, who are unstable, or who have life-threatening illnesses or injuries are immediately placed in the appropriate treatment unit -- Adult Emergent Care for patients older than 21 or Pediatric Emergent Care for patients younger than 21.
 
Their multidisciplinary teams conduct emergency evaluations, and perform the necessary resuscitation, stabilization, treatment, and/or post-resuscitation critical care.
 
Patients who come to the Emergency Department with less critical medical conditions are evaluated and prioritized by emergency care nurses. Patients are monitored until they are seen by a physician, who treats them and determines an appropriate plan of care. All care is delivered under the supervision of an attending physician.
 
The Emergency Department at Duke University Hospital also offers a dedicated unit for victims of sexual assault
 
One of only several Level 1 Trauma Centers in North Carolina, Duke University Hospital’s Trauma Center opened in 1975 with the goal of improving the medical care of patients with critical and/or multi-system injuries. Since that time, the center has greatly expanded its size and scope of services, and our trauma physicians now admit some 1,500 patients from around the region to Duke University Hospital each year.
 
Our mission is to provide, within an organized framework, the most advanced, compassionate care available to seriously injured patients -- from pre-hospital through rehabilitation. Patient care is a coordinated effort between Duke’s surgery, nursing, and ancillary services, and we strive to deliver it efficiently and seamlessly, using the most current knowledge, in our effort to save lives.
 
In addition to conducting research aimed at increasing survival rates and limiting disabilities in trauma patients, we are dedicated to creating a safer community by helping to prevent injuries due to violence and other means.



 
Location
Durham
Requisition Number
401485417
Position Title
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT - DUKE HOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Shift
First/Day
Job Family Level
55
Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Department Name
Emergency Medicine
Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions:
Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Education:
Work requires completion of accredited Physicians Assistant Program. 

Experience:
Strongly prefer two years of PA experience in Emergency Medicine.

Licensure:
Must demonstrate and maintain credentialing and licensing requirements of Duke University Medical Center and The North Carolina Medical Board. State of North Carolina licensure is required.

Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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