Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician

OBGYN Locum Tenens

Join our team as an OBGYN locum tenens provider. This position involves 24-hour shifts in-house, covering gaps while we recruit for permanent staff.

Job Description

• These are 24-hour shifts in-house.
• Reason for coverage: Gaps while we recruit.
• Dates of coverage: ASAP possible until early 2025 TBD.
• Looking for 2 locums to cover 15-18 twenty-four hour shifts per month. Shifts include weekends and holidays.
• Practice setting: OBGYN-Family Life Center-Labor and Delivery / Hospital ED and OR coverage. No outpatient or elective surgeries. Possibility of or open to all practice settings if mutually agreeable.
• Total number of beds: 16 beds - 6 labor/10 postpartum.
• Number of physicians in practice: 4.
• Other OB/GYNs will provide coverage during locums coverage dates.
• How many APPs provide coverage: 10.
• Onsite lab and ultrasound available.
• Office equipment: Full complement of supplies.
• Support staff: Full complement - RN, CNMs, 24-hour Peds, Anesthesia, and surgical PAs available on site.
• Percentage of practice that is low-risk pregnancy: 100%.
• Percentage of practice that is high-risk pregnancy: 0%.
• Percentage of practice that is GYN: 15% GYN emergency coverage only.
• Percentage of patients that are C-section: 25%.
• Average number of nursery admissions per day: 2 per day.
• Nursery level: Level One Nursery.
• Documentation system/EMR: Meditech.
• Trauma level/designation: None, community-based hospital.
• Client will reimburse for full travel if needed.

Requirements

• Required obstetrics procedures:

  • Low-risk pregnancy (i.e., history of twins, toxemia, pyelonephritis, etc.).
  • FHR interpretation NST/CST/FSE, OB ultrasounds.
  • Performance of interpretation, OB ultrasounds.
  • Performance of Level I/screening (viability).

• Labor and delivery required procedures:

  • Routine delivery vaginal, low forceps, decision-making for C-section, complicated delivery C-section, breech, multiple births, abruptions, etc., VBACs, repair of 3rd & 4th degree lacerations.

• Gynecology required procedures:

  • D&C, surgical gynecology open, laparoscopic diagnostic/minor only - tubal ligation.
  • LOAs, chromal tubation, operative/major (includes diagnostic) ectopic pregnancy, ovary removal, cystectomy, extensive LOAs.