MD/DO Regional Emergency Medicine 1.0 FTE
Posted May 7, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
You'd be covering critical access hospitals in places like Boscobel, Friendship and Wabasha, often as the only physician. How do you feel about being the most senior person in the building?
What they are checking: Comfort with full ownership of every decision when there is no one down the hall to ask.
Shifts here run 12 to 24 hours. How do you keep your judgment sharp at hour 20?
What they are checking: Honest awareness of fatigue and practical ways to stay safe across long rural shifts.
How do you work with a small nursing team that may be stretched thin covering both the ER and inpatient beds?
What they are checking: Respect for small-hospital staff, whose trust makes or breaks a rural physician's shift.
Tell me about the sickest pediatric patient you've managed. What did you do?
What they are checking: Comfort with critically ill children, which rural ERs see rarely but must handle alone.
What would you do
Weather has grounded the helicopter and a trauma patient needs a surgeon. What do you do?
What they are checking: Resourcefulness when transfer fails, including stabilization and using the system's specialists by phone.
You'd rotate between sites in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. How do you get up to speed fast in a building you haven't worked in for a month?
What they are checking: Adaptability across sites with different equipment, staff and workflows.
A local patient you know from the community comes in after a serious overdose. How do you handle that?
What they are checking: Maintaining professionalism and privacy in small towns where the physician knows many patients.
About the work
A STEMI walks into a critical access ER with the nearest cath lab over an hour away. Walk me through your first 30 minutes.
What they are checking: Knowing when to give lytics versus transfer, which is the defining call in rural emergency care.
How do you manage a difficult airway when you have no anesthesia backup and limited staff?
What they are checking: Airway skills and backup plans that do not depend on a specialist being in the hospital.
How do you decide which patients you can safely keep at a critical access hospital and which need transfer?
What they are checking: Sound transfer judgment that avoids both risky keeps and unnecessary, costly transfers.
What procedures are you fully comfortable doing on your own, and which would you want to refresh before starting?
What they are checking: Honest self-assessment of procedural skills that a solo rural physician cannot hand off.
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