Neurohospitalist / Stroke Clinic Neurologist

About the job

Providence is hiring a full-time, board-eligible or board-certified neurologist in Spokane for a split Neurohospitalist / Stroke Clinic Neurologist position: half with the inpatient neurohospitalist team and half in the outpatient Stroke and TIA Clinic. The neurologist joins the large neurology group of Providence Medical Group - Eastern Washington.

Facilities in Spokane include the 644-bed Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, which has its own children's hospital, Providence Holy Family Hospital (272 beds) in north Spokane, and outpatient neurology subspecialty clinics. Stroke- and neuro-trained nurse practitioners, research coordinators and outpatient neurologists in MS, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, sleep, movement disorders and dementia support the team.

What you'll do

• Care for hospitalized patients as a neurohospitalist, practicing acute inpatient neurology
• See patients in the outpatient Stroke and TIA Clinic, giving specialized stroke care
• Work within a certified thrombectomy-capable stroke program, with 24/7 support from neuroradiology, neurosurgery, endovascular neurosurgery, neuro-IR, vascular surgery, epilepsy, psychiatry and other specialties

What you need

• A board-eligible or board-certified neurologist
• J1 and H1B visa applicants are welcome

Preferred

• Vascular neurology fellowship training, or equivalent neurohospitalist experience

Schedule

• Full-time (1.0 FTE), split between 0.5 FTE neurohospitalist and 0.5 FTE stroke clinic neurologist
• A 7-on, 7-off neurohospitalist schedule of 12-hour inpatient shifts, alternating with a total of 10 weekdays of clinic per month

Benefits

• Extra work and pay opportunities through Providence telestroke and teleneurology
• Pay that may include productivity or quality and service incentives and extra-shift pay with incentives, as applicable
• CME benefits
• A comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities to teach and mentor residents and medical students, with optional clinical faculty appointments through the University of Washington School of Medicine, Washington State University's Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine or both