Description
Position at Nuvance Health Med Practice CT
Excellent Endocrinologist Opportunity Norwalk area Connecticut One Hour from New York City
Norwalk Hospital part of Nuvance Health is seeking an Endocrinologist to join our collegial and growing employed clinical team of four Physicians and two Advanced Practice Providers. The practice locations are Darien New Canaan Norwalk and Westport; just one hour outside of New York City in suburban Fairfield County.
This is an employed position with Nuvance Health Medical Practice. Competitive total compensation package including base salary incentive pay paid time off CME time off and allowance medical dental vision life disability and 401k match. Sign on bonus relocation allowance and retention bonus offered.
Our sevenhospital system and medical practice offers the full range of Endocrinology and Diabetes care including Transgender Medicine and Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment. We have inoffice ultrasound for thyroid biopsies though this is not a requirement for physicians. Our staff is trained in Insulin pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices and there is insystem access to our Certified Diabetes and Nutrition Education Center ThyroidParathyroid Center and MetabolicWeight Loss Center. We have an Inpatient Diabetes Management Quality Improvement Team as well. Our system has dedicated Endocrinology surgery and radiology services including Radioactive iodine therapy.
The position is mainly outpatient based with some inpatient consults at Norwalk Hospital. We are offering flexible schedules and open to parttime or fulltime with 35 working days per week. There is administrative time built into the schedule and proportional to hours worked.
Our hospital is staffed by a superb group of hospitalist physicians and medical trainees. There is optional involvement with our medical teaching program including the opportunity for appointment to the clinical faculty of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and/or Yale School of Medicine.
Job Requirements:
- MD or DO with CT State License Federal DEA in CT and CT State Controlled Substance Registration
- Have successfully completed an Internal Medicine or Family Medicine Residency and be Board Certified in either as well as completed a full Fellowship in Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism and be Board Certified or Board Eligible.
- Prefer 5 years of Endocrinologist clinical experience but will consider new fellowship graduates.
- Afterhour coverage light call volume to physician shared among multiple providers to decrease call frequency approximately on call one week out of every 7 weeks.
We are located about 50 miles northeast of New York City in Fairfield County near the border of Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York State along the Long Island Sound. The city of Norwalk and surrounding towns are rich in cultural diversity and offer many venues for 4 season outdoor and indoor recreation. The area has highly rated public and private school options and several universities. New York City is easily accessible by car or train. Norwalk Hospital has been a proud part of this community since 1892.
Norwalk Hospital has 366 beds and is also a Level II Trauma Center with approximately 50000 ED visits per year. Our Medical Group includes 1000 physicians and advanced practice providers serving a geographically broad region throughout Western Connecticut and eastern New York.
Nuvance Health serves 1.5 million residents across New York and Connecticut and includes more than 2600 aligned physicians 12000 employees seven hospitals (Danbury Hospital New Milford Hospital Northern Dutchess Hospital Norwalk Hospital Putnam Hospital Center Sharon Hospital and Vassar Brothers Medical Center) a large network of primary care and specialty practices and multiple affiliated organizations.
We are a Section 501(c)3 taxexempt organization and therefore eligible employees may qualify for forgiveness of certain federal student loans under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
EOE including disability/vets.
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Salary Range: $285000 $325000 commensurate or relative to experience.