Thoracic, Thoracic Surgeon- Practice in a setting surrounded by rivers, lakes and mountains
Location
Watertown, NY | United States
Job description
Package Highlights:
- $665,000 Annual Base Salary, plus WRVU Incentive Program 4-year Contract
- $50,000 Signing Bonus
- $20,000 Annual Education Loan Repayment
- $15,000 Relocation Reimbursement
- $3,000 Annual Continuing Education Stipend plus 5 Paid Days Off
Practice Highlights:
- Employee of Samaritan Medical Center, a 290 bed not-for-profit hospital located in Watertown, New York
- Non-cardiac position, with focus predominantly on thoracic surgery
- New system is a robotic bronchoscopy system which combines navigational technology with a new robotic bronchoscope platform that allows for continues live camera during deployment of various tools which has previously not been possible, along with robotic micro movement control
- Work within the same office with an un-opposed well-established group of five Board Certified Pulmonary/Critical Care Physicians
- Medical Staff greater than 190 physicians; offering solid referral base
- Catchment population: 250,000
- New Xi da Vinci Robotics Surgical System
- Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery System
- Large network of providers offers a strong referral base
- Very appreciative patient population making for a rewarding career
- Well-established lung cancer screening program
- Hospital based newly constructed comprehensive cancer center, Fall 2018
- Teaching opportunities with accredited ACGME/AOA Family Medicine & Internal Medicine
Qualifications:
- Board Certification Thoracic Surgery
- Ideally 5 to 10 years of experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Appreciation for Patient Centered Care
- Ability to work within Team
Other Benefits
- Twenty-nine (29) days paid time off
- Health insurance, individual or family, 80% paid
- Occurrence medical liability insurance; $1.3 Million each/$3.9 million aggregate
- 401k and 403b financial planning option; Employer pension plan contribution
- NYS medical license and DEA registration paid
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