Outpatient Spine Position with Major Academic Institution in the South

The Department of Neurosurgery at a prestigious Southern university is seeking a board certified/board eligible general Neurosurgeon (primarily spine) to join their group of skilled neurosurgeons in a highly collaborative community-hospital environment. The neurosurgeon will maintain an academic faculty rank (open rank, non-tenure-earning) and a strong relationship with the university's academic education and research programs.

The new neurosurgeon will be assigned two days of OR at a hospital which performs primarily spine cases as well as low-acuity community-hospital type cranial cases. This location can support the more complex cases in its main ORs and same day/lower acuity cases in its quick-turnover ORs. The neurosurgeon will also be assigned one day of elective, outpatient-only OR at an ambulatory surgery center.

The neurosurgeon will be required to take neurosurgical call at the inpatient hospital shared among the other neurosurgeons and at a small private practice, estimated to be about 5-7 days per month.

The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in joining an existing community of neurosurgeons practicing in a community-hospital environment and expanding the department’s practice. They will have a desire to interact with resident education at the main campus through resident teaching conferences and education.

The employer is a research university and academic health center that discovers, teaches, and applies knowledge for the intellectual, cultural, social, and economic benefit of its city, its state, and beyond. The university is internationally renowned for its intensely collaborative culture that has — for more than five decades — produced breakthroughs in education, health care, research, and service. This is the third-largest public academic medical center in the country, with more than 1,900 beds and almost 18,000 employees. Situated among major research centers and clinics, the flagship hospital provides patients with a complete range of primary and specialty care services, as well as the most up-to-date treatments and innovations in health care.

The primary admitting hospital is a facility with more than 400 beds specializing in medical services including oncology, cardiology, women’s and children’s services, orthopedics/sports medicine, neurology, and surgical services. The hospital has a long history of recognition, including being named the “Best Hospital to Have a Baby,” “Best Birthing Suites,” “Favorite Hospital,” and the Most Wired List for Hospitals and Health Networks. It was founded in 1898 as a ministry dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care designed to sustain and improve the health of the community as well as its citizens.

Located in the heart of the Southeast, this city is a short drive from Gulf Coast beaches and all the region's biggest cities. Some of the most beautiful suburbs in the United States surround the city. With its picturesque surroundings, this city has been recognized as an “All American City”, one of the top ten American cities to live and work, and one of the top ten entrepreneurial and job growth hot spots in America. The combination of pleasant weather, geography, diverse culture, activities, and lifestyle makes this city a wonderful place to live, raise a family, and practice medicine.

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