Physician - General Surgery

Visas Accepted

N/A

Specialty

General Surgery

Practice Details

Sanford Watertown Clinic is seeking to add a Board Certified/Board Eligible General Surgeon.

Wide scope of bread and butter surgeries performed primarily from partner referrals (Primary Care & OBGyn) or trauma call.
Call is 1:5. Citywide call. Work week is 4.5 days.
Additional training in Cancer and/or other Fellowship areas is desired
Large StateoftheArt Surgical Suites
Multispecialty group with Ob/Gyn Pediatrics Radiology Family Medicine and Internal Medicine

The clinic is connected to the campus of Prairie Lakes Hospital an 80bed facility with a fully staffed ER.

Community Description

Watertown is a growing community located next to two beautiful glacial lakes. The community has a population of over 20000 and a service area of over 60000. Watertown offers a wide variety of cultural entertainment and shopping opportunities. Watertown is located at the intersection of US Highway 212 & Interstate 29.

Job Description

General Surgery Core Privileges include the ability to admit evaluate diagnose and provide pre intra and postoperative care and perform surgical procedures for adolescents and adults (except where specifically excluded from practice and except for those special procedure privilege) to correct or treat various conditions illnesses and injuries of the alimentary tract abdomen and its contents breast skin soft tissue head and neck endocrine system and minor extremity surgery. Surgery Core privileges also include the ability to provide for the oncall emergent/urgent needs of the pediatric and preadolescent surgical patient within the core privilege definition.

Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. degree.

Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways:An applicant who has just completed a residency shall provide his/her residency or fellowship applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 12 months including numbers of procedures morbidity mortality infection rates and other complications. Applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of General Surgery and case volumes should show performance of at least 100 procedures in the past 12 a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges documentation of the applicants clinical activity for the past 12 months is required. Applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of General Surgery and case volumes should show performance of at least 100 procedures in the past 12 education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Successful completion of a hospital affiliated surgical residency program or a clinical fellowship of at least five years duration accredited by the ACGME the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. The Credentials Committee; Physician Executive or Medical Affairs Committee; and the Board of Directors or the Board of Governors may consider training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the by the appropriate specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entities policy for grandfather exceptions)

Compensation

Sanford Health offers a nationally competitive compensation plan with an additional physician benefits package including health dental and vision insurance 401K plan short term and longterm disability life insurance CME allowance paid time away malpractice insurance and tail coverage and a relocation allowance.

Recruiter Information

Debra Salava Senior Physician Recruiter

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