General practitioner vs hospitalist physician

Differences between general practitioner and hospitalist physician duties and responsibilities

General practitioner example responsibilities.

• Shadow and note specific medical cases as well as participated in patient diagnosis and treatment plan discussions
• Evaluate a variety of medical conditions and afflictions, including making comprehensive diagnosis and specifying treatment plans.
• Serve as initial contact to hospital patients; conduct thorough patient assessments and coordinate referrals to appropriate physicians base on findings
• Assist in major elective and emergency surgeries such as appendectomies, exploratory laparotomy, thyroid surgery, hysterectomy and cesarean operations.
• Collect and dispatch blood samples according to national malaria eradication and sputum samples for national tuberculosis control program.

Hospitalist physician example responsibilities.

• Conduct vendor assessments with variety of EMR vendors to assure adherence with CMS standards.
• Maintain CRM database of referring physicians, including their demographics, referral patterns and other relevant information.
• Participate in a pilot program that utilize physician assistants to assist physicians with covering unassign patients on the hospital wards.
• Perform EKG, monitoring & interpretation of EKG.
• Coordinate with marketing, sales and CME departments to build cohesive community physician outreach program.
• Organize and schedule physician to physician meetings, lunch and learn events, and CME programs.
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