"Physician, OB/GYN Yale Health"

Overview

In 1971, Yale University established Yale Health to provide health services to its faculty, staff and students through a multidisciplinary health maintenance organization located on campus. Today, Yale Health has more than 49,000 members including students, staff, faculty and their families who come from every state in the country and almost every country in the world. We are celebrating over 50 years of service to the Yale community.

Our state-of-the-art facility at 55 Lock Street is where our members receive most of their care from our 150+ physicians and advanced practice providers. It is a 144,000 square foot multispecialty medical facility with over 90 exam rooms, an Acute Care Department, a 15-bed inpatient facility with two negative pressure rooms, a diagnostic imaging suite including MR and CT scans, an endoscopy suite, and a full-service retail pharmacy.  Our patients are also supported by comprehensive behavioral health, care management, clinical pharmacy, and population health teams.

As part of a physician-led health maintenance organization and an integrated health system embedded within Yale University, our physicians and advanced practice providers are free from fee-for-service medicine, volume-driven productivity targets, and long battles with insurance companies.  This allows us to be wholly focused on the welfare of our patients, where the joy in medicine begins.

In the Yale Health Department of Ob/Gyn, our physicians provide high quality, seamless, coordinated and compassionate care at every patient encounter at Yale Health. They deliver the full spectrum of general obstetrical and gynecologic care, including outpatient, inpatient, and emergency care, as well as managing labor and delivery patients and performing gynecologic surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital.  They consult with and refer to subspecialists and coordinate care as appropriate.  Each physician has an individual panel of patients and is readily available as backup for their colleagues’ patients, seeing walk-in and call-in patients as needed.  The physicians work closely together and with the department’s highly trained Ob/Gyn nurses, and they engage collaboratively with medical assistants, receptionists, and other front-line staff.  They are key voices in department meetings and participate in departmental initiatives and quality improvement projects.

While at the hospital, the physicians are actively involved with the education and training of Yale Ob/Gyn residents and Yale medical students on their Ob/Gyn clerkship, and they may seek an academic appointment as voluntary faculty in the Yale School of Medicine.  The OB/GYN physicians participate in call duty that averages 1:6 to 1:7, with a full post-call day off.

The department averages 450 deliveries per year.

Schedule

Full time, generally weekdays, between 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Participates in on-call rotation that includes early mornings, evenings, and weekends, and participation in holiday/recess coverage is also required.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Demonstrated clinical skills with the ability to assess and manage patient concerns as attested by colleagues and supervisors.
2. Superior interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to work positively and effectively with a diverse population.
3. Ability to support staff with leadership, teaching and team building. Ability to lead and work as part of a collaborative and supportive team.
4. Commitment to high-quality patient care and adherence to regulatory standards.
5. Excellent attendance, punctuality and reliability.
6. Computer proficiency with Electronic Medical Records (EMR).

Required Licenses or Certifications

1. Holds or is eligible to hold a CT Medical License
2. Holds or is eligible to hold a CT Controlled Substance Registration
3. Federal DEA Registration
4. Board Certification/board eligible
5. Qualifies for hospital and faculty appointments.

Principal Responsibilities

1. Defines and documents patients’ clinical problems and reaches proper diagnoses; plans and executes therapy in a timely manner; keeps records of care; provides consultation and teaching for midlevel clinicians.
2. Conducts rounds and signs out patients in a timely, thorough manner and answers calls and pages promptly.
3. Participates in hospital coverage, including: weekday and weekend on-call rotations, hospital rounds, overnight phone calls.
4. Sees patients in Acute Care in rotation.
5. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Graduation from an accredited medical school.