Overview
If it's possible, you will find it at Atrium Health-the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together.
Seeking a full-time general surgeon with a strong commitment to emergency general surgery to join Atrium Health's (AH) Division of Acute Care Surgery as a member of the AH-University City Acute Care Surgery Service in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Atrium Health's Division of Acute Care Surgery currently employs 18 full-time academic faculty and 4 military faculty providing urgent care to acutely ill and injured patients at two AH facilities, the flagship Level I trauma center Carolinas Medical Center and University City. To advance the Division's primary mission of providing highest value care for all acutely ill and injured surgical patients within our region, the AH-University City Acute Care Surgery Service was initiated in 2020. Since its inception, the service has grown substantially, now performing greater than 1000 cases annually, with a robust and expanding EGS robotics program, and recently expanded clinic access and surgical block time.
Atrium Health operates nine facilities within the greater Charlotte region that provide some aspect of Acute Care Surgery (ACS). Our integrated system has roughly 50,000 ACS admissions annually, of which roughly 30,000 are emergent general surgery (EGS) conditions. In December 2022, AH and Advocate Aurora Health merged to form Advocate Health. Headquartered in Charlotte, Advocate Health is one of the largest, most comprehensive and integrated, public, not-for-profit systems in the nation serving nearly 6 million patients annually.
Qualified candidates should be:
- Board certified in General Surgery
- Board certification in Surgical Critical Care is encouraged though not required
- Mature surgeon with 3-4 years post-training clinical experience preferred
- Interested in patient-centered, value-based delivery of care
- Interested in strengthening quality and process improvement programs
- Interest and experience in robotics platform preferred
- Interested in system development
- Willing to participate in clinical research and resident/fellow education
When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally.
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