ACSSICU Surgeon Sanford Health Sioux Falls, SD

Visas Accepted

N/A

Specialty

General Surgery

Practice Details

Sanford Clinic Surgical Associates (SCSA) is seeking a Fellowship Trained BC/BE Surgical Critical Care Surgeon to join its experienced FACS surgeons and advanced practice providers. SCSA has the largest and most experienced group of general surgeons in South Dakota. Experienced candidates preferred but new graduates will also be considered.
Physician will cover Surgical Critical Care Service and Acute Care Surgery/Trauma Surgery Service
Must be Board Eligible/Board Certified
Must be Fellowship Trained in Surgical Critical Care
SICU located within Sanford USD Medical Center; Surgical Center Clinic attached to hospital
Level I Verified Adult & Level II Pediatric Trauma Center
Work with and teach Surgical Residents/Advanced Practice Clinicians (Clinical Nurse Specialists Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners)

Community Description

Dedicated to the work of health and healing
Sanford Health is one of the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Driven by a vision to improve the human condition at every stage of life Sanford Health is dedicated to the delivery of health care genomic medicine senior care and services global clinics research and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls South Dakota the health system includes 46 medical centers 1500 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior living centers in 26 states.
About Sanford Health in Sioux Falls
545 hospital beds
The only Level I Adult verified Trauma Center in South Dakota
The only verified Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in South Dakota
Free standing Sanford Childrens Castle of Care Hospital
Sanford Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the regions only Level IV NICU
Large referral area
Research opportunities
Serving a city population of 277076
540 Physicians and 550 APPs
Life in Sioux Falls
Located in the heart of the Midwest Sioux Falls balances an excellent quality of life with a strong economy in a safe clean environment in southeast South Dakota. With a competitive cost of living no state income tax and amenities of a community twice its size such as fine dining shopping arts sports and nightlife Sioux Falls is a welcoming and friendly place to call home.

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 on-call emergent/urgent needs of the pediatric and pre-adolescent 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 long-term 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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