Job Description

Job #

JN -032025-71432

Target Start Date

5/1/2025

Target End Date

12/31/2025

Responsibilities

Collaborating with a facility in southeastern Kentucky that has an opportunity for a skilled Emergency Medicine physician to provide locum coverage.

Opportunity Highlights:

• Schedule: 12-hour day, night, or weekend shifts

• No call requirement

• Level IV Trauma

• Annual Volume: 13,000 patients

• 12 ED beds

• Acute stroke-ready facility

• EMR: Meditech

• Must be board-certified or board-eligible

• Paid travel & expenses

In your time off, stand inside a meteorite crater surrounded by mountains, hike to a historic Cumberland Gap overlook once traveled by pioneers, and stroll through a charming downtown with local shops and murals.

If you are interested, please apply to learn more.

Qualifications

• Must be a board-certified Emergency Medicine with extensive experience in acute and emergency care

• A compassionate, patient-focused approach is essential for providing top-notch call coverage

• Familiarity with Locum Tenens work and a willingness to adapt to diverse clinical settings

• Proven ability to manage busy, 24-hour shifts while remaining calm and efficient

• Excellent communication skills to ensure smooth collaboration with local healthcare teams

• A strong commitment to community health in the beautiful Bluegrass state

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Sound knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and medical terminology.

• Active unencumbered MD or DO Kentucky state license

• Graduate from a fully accredited MD or DO program

• One year of work experience as an Emergency Medicine

• One year of EMR experience 

SKILLS/ABILITIES/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED:

• Maintains and updates clinical knowledge and skills.

• Participates in relevant continuing education programs.

• Knowledge of and dedication to the highest patient care and provide the utmost service excellence to all patients.

• Ability to take initiative and to exercise independent judgment, decision-making and problem-solving expertise.

• A can-do, team oriented attitude is essential, as the ability to work independently and to interact easily with physicians, other managers and staff throughout the department and hospital.

• Effective interpersonal/communication, organizational, and the flexibility to handle multiple tasks.

Requirements:

• COVID vaccine with 2 Shots & Booster.

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