Neurologist

About the job

Providence Medical Group is hiring a full-time, board-eligible or board-certified neurologist in Spokane to work as a movement disorder specialist with the Sacred Heart Medical Center team. The practice is entirely movement disorders, with no general neurology.

Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital, with 644 beds and a medical staff of more than 900, serves an area of about 1.5 million people and offers minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotic surgery, a research department, residency programs, and centers that specialize in orthopedics, women's health and the neurosciences. The role is supported by neuro-trained nurse practitioners, research coordinators and outpatient neurologists in epilepsy, MS, stroke, sleep, headache, autonomic dysfunction, neuromuscular disease and ALS, neuropsychology and neurorehabilitation.

What you'll do

• Work up and manage patients with movement disorders, with no general neurology required
• Collaborate with movement disorder neurologists across the Providence system
• Draw on 24/7 specialty support from psychiatry, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, neuro-IR, neurohospitalists and other services

What you need

• A board-eligible or board-certified neurologist
• Fellowship training in movement disorders
• New graduates are welcome
• The qualifications welcome J1 and H1B visa applicants, but the posting's job details list J1 and H1B as No

Preferred

• Experience or training in medically and surgically evaluating and managing refractory Parkinson disease, tremor, dystonia and related movement disorders
• Experience and interest in botox and in deep brain stimulator (DBS) programming
• Interest in DBS

Schedule

• Full-time
• No clinic or hospital/ED call, since neurohospitalists cover inpatient emergencies 24/7

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including health, vision and dental coverage
• Pay may include productivity or quality and service incentives and extra-shift incentives, as applicable
• CME benefits may be available
• 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