Neurology Epilepsy Physician

About the job

Providence Medical Group is hiring a full-time, board-eligible or board-certified adult epileptologist (Neurology Epilepsy Physician) in Spokane to work with the Sacred Heart Medical Center team. The practice is 100% epilepsy with no general neurology, and the group wants a provider with experience working up and managing refractory epilepsy.

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 MS, stroke, sleep, headache, movement disorders, neuromuscular disease and ALS, and neurorehabilitation.

What you'll do

• Do medical and surgical epilepsy workups, including phase I EMU evaluations
• Provide ongoing medical management of chronic epilepsy
• Handle EEG, continuous video EEG and rapid EEG reading
• Manage neuromodulator devices
• Draw on 24/7 specialty support from psychiatry, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, neuro-IR, neurohospitalists and other services

What you need

• Board-eligible or board-certified
• Fellowship training in epilepsy
• New graduates are welcome to apply
• The qualifications welcome J1 and H1B visa applicants, but the posting's job details list J1 and H1B as No

Schedule

• Full-time
• No clinic call, since neurohospitalists provide 24/7 inpatient coverage for emergencies

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package
• Pay may include productivity or quality and service incentives and extra-shift pay with incentives, as applicable
• CME benefits
• 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