Infectious Disease Physician

1. Provide inpatient (Paterson and Wayne locations) and outpatient infectious disease consultation services.

2. Provide services to HIV-infected patients attending the Comprehensive Care Center.

(As a portion of the salary is secured from grant funding to the Clinic. Expectations include providing medical care to all patients scheduled at the clinic and adhering to the assigned clinic hours.).

3. Provide services to patients attending the STD clinic at the Paterson Board of Health

Program Development

Contribute to the antibiotic utilization program in order to achieve 5 goals: to reduce the emergence of resistant organisms; to reduce the incidence of untoward events; to reduce the incidence of drug-drug interactions; to enhance clinical efficacy (both prevention and treatment); and to reduce antibiotic-related costs. Augment the present antibiotic utilization program by establishing guidelines and educational programs, as well as monitoring selective, expensive agents, and recently FDA approved compounds.

Teaching Responsibilities

Participate in the teaching/supervision of students and residents assigned to Regan 6 South, the infectious disease elective and the Comprehensive Care Center. Participate in faculty development sessions, board review course, resident didactic lecture series and resident morning report sessions.

Administrative Activities

Physician will engage in the development and implementation of those patient improvement guidelines developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Scholarly Activities

Participate in research/scholarly activities and strive to publish results in peer-reviewed journals.

Expectations:

As a full-time salaried member of the Department of Medicine, physician is expected to attend Infectious Disease Division meetings, quarterly Department of Medicine meetings and Medical Grand Rounds.

Physician is expected to all other duties as assigned by the Chief of Infectious Disease and the Chairman of Medicine.

Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)

• Competitive salary*
• Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
• 403b retirement plan options with company match**
• Health & Wellness*
• Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
• PTO, and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• LTD : Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance Options
• Onsite Day care Program

• Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

**403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

Pay transparency: St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc.” The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.

The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.

The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.