Physician / Surgery - General-Hand / Arizona / Permanent / Microvascular Hand Surgeon Opportunity - Phoenix, Arizona Job

Description:

• An immediate opportunity exists in the Department of Surgery of for a full-time microvascular plastics and hand surgeon with a strong interest in academics and trauma.
• The Department staffs a community hospital with a State and American College of Surgeons designated Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center in the metropolitan Phoenix area.
• The Department is seeking a microvascular plastics and hand surgeon interested in resident education to join and become an integral member of a busy plastics and hand practice.
• The practice has a strong emphasis on trauma and is supported by the trauma team.
• The surgeon would be appointed to the Department of Surgery with responsibilities relating to serving as a faculty member, traditional inpatient and outpatient services in the elective, urgent, and emergent care of the plastic/hand patient, teaching, and on-call coverage.
• The Department also hosts a General Surgery and Surgical Podiatry Residency Program and provides supervision to resident rotators in plastic surgery.
• Join is a not-for-profit faculty practice plan owned and operated by physicians consisting of more than 400 providers who represent all the major medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties.
• Our physicians hold faculty appointments and participate in inter-professional teaching through the Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance.

Qualifications:

• The successful candidate must have completed Plastic Surgery residency training, be board certified or eligible; and previous faculty experience preferred.
• The candidate must also be board certified and/or eligible and have completed the Certificate in Added Qualifications for Hand, or Surgery of the Hand certified/eligible, and should be comfortable with a teamwork approach for patient management.
• Tissue microvascular procedures with breast surgery, burn surgery are anticipated.

Compensation:

• 4 weeks paid time off
• 1 week CME time off with CME stipend
• 10 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance, long term disability, AD&D insurance
• 401K plan with up to 6 percent employer match
• Paid medical malpractice insurance with tail coverage

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