Medical Resident 3

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1873, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is a 186-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Merced, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, the Mercy Cancer Center, and a family birth center. Additionally, Merced Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Medical Resident, you will perform professional medical duties, receiving advanced training under faculty supervision. This role develops your clinical competency and contribution to patient care, education, and institutional duties.

Every day you will exercise clinical judgment, seeking supervision as required, and meticulously document patient care. You'll actively participate in teaching, scholarly activities, and institutional committees. As appropriate, you will also assume teaching and supervisory responsibilities for junior colleagues.

To be successful, you must demonstrate a profound commitment to learning, strong clinical judgment, and effective communication. Adherence to all program deadlines and policies (residency, ACGME, Medical Board) is essential, alongside resilience and appropriate decision-making within your training scope.

• The undersigned contractor or business associate (Requesting Contractor) has signed a contract (the Contract) with the undersigned medical facility (Medical Facility) or Dignity Health's (Dignity Health) and now wishes to request and sponsor access to and use of Medical Facility and Dignity Health Network for its personnel identified below solely for the purposes of meeting Requesting Contractor's obligations under the Contract. Such access or use granted to these persons (hereinafter are referred to as you or your) may include, as applicable, Intranet, Extranet, or audio/video/PDA/telecommunication devices, desktops and laptops (the Network). By granting you such access, you may be able to view or copy confidential or privileged patient-related information that is electronically stored and made available to health care professionals. As a condition of receiving access to the Network, you agree as follows:
• You shall limit your use of the information obtained from the Network and derivatives thereof (the Information) solely for the purposes of Requesting Contractor meeting its obligations under the Contract. Further, your use of the Information will be limited to the minimum necessary required to fulfill your contractual responsibilities.
• You agree to undertake a reasonable degree of care to protect the Information considering its confidential and privileged nature, which care shall not, in any event, be less than that required by law, and by Dignity Health's Network Usage Policy, a copy of which is attached.
• You have read and understand Dignity Health's Network Usage Policy and Requesting Contractor's privacy and security obligations under the Contract, and agree that, in addition to the requirements herein, the Network Usage Policy also governs your access to and use of the Network. Any revisions to the Network Usage Policy, which may be necessary from time to time, will be readily available to you on the Network for your review.
• Your Network user ID and password is unique to you and at no time shall you share with or otherwise disclose either of them to any other individual in your company or elsewhere. You agree to immediately report to Medical Facility the disclosure or loss of your user ID or password.
• You acknowledge that any violation of this Memorandum of Understanding could result in irreparable harm, the damages for which are incalculable. You agree that in the case of such breach of the foregoing agreement and trust, the patient, Dignity Health and Medical Facility shall have every remedy available at law, including immediate injunctive relief, in addition to remedies provided under the Contract.

Job Requirements

Required

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), upon hire and
• Basic Life Support (BLS) - CPR, upon hire and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), upon hire and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), upon hire and
• Advanced Life Support Obstetrics Provider (ALSO), upon hire

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire.  This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements