Urology Physician Assistant

Summary:

The Urology Inpatient Hospitalist Service is growing at WMCHealth in Valhalla, NY. We are seeking specialty trained Physician Assistants (PAs) to join our inpatient nocturnal urology team. In this position, the PAs will work alongside experienced physician and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) colleagues medically managing a variety of urological inpatients throughout the course of their hospital stay.

Responsibilities:

• Performing medical evaluations, treatment, follow-up and consultations for diverse urological adult traumas and acute care surgical patients.
• Medically triaging and managing inpatient urological acute matters, as well as, standard pathway admissions
• Delivering direct patient care as part of a collaborative patient care team.
• Gaining a working competency of procedures inclusive of, but not limited to, cystoscopy, cystostomy, as well as, complicated CBI management

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Candidates must be board certified as a Physician Assistant and possess or be eligible to obtain an applicable New York State license.
• Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 1-year clinical experience, although highly motivated new graduates with interest and abilities in urology or surgery/medicine subspecialty will be considered and are encouraged to apply.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians.

From Level I, Level II and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.

Westchester Medical Center is the premier provider of advanced medical care in New York’s Hudson Valley region. The flagship of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, this 895-bed academic hospital located in Valhalla, New York, provides local residents with acute care services - Level I trauma and burn care, organ transplants and advanced neurovascular procedures and more - found nowhere else in the region. Westchester Medical Center is the primary referral facility for other hospitals in the Hudson Valley and serves as a lifeline for more than 3.5 million people. To learn more about Westchester Medical Center and the vital services it provides to residents of the Hudson Valley and beyond, visit WestchesterMedicalCenter.org