Sanford Health

Visas Accepted

N/A

Specialty

Pulmonary Disease: Critical Care

Practice Details

Sanford Health has an immediate opening for a BC/BE Pulmonary/Critical Medicine Physician to join a well-established practice in Fargo, North Dakota consisting of 5 Pulmonology/Critical Care Physicians and 4 Physician Assistants.

Pulmonary:
• Pulmonary Clinic operates 5 days/week
• Pulmonologists provide hospital consultation service, in partnership with an APP
• Pulmonary lab is in same location as clinic
• ION Robotic Bronchoscopy / EBUS; Interventional Bronchoscopy APC/Cryo and stenting


Critical Care Medicine:
• Critical Care Medicine covers 2 ICUs 24/7; 45 ICU beds
• Three intensivists on during the day and a fourth one on at night
• Provides both primary ICU care and consultative services

Community Description

About Sanford Health in Fargo

With three hospitals and more than 50 clinics in nearby communities, Sanford Health delivers high level medical expertise to Fargo and the surrounding area. Our specialty centers focus on children’s care, heart, cancer, neuroscience, orthopedics and sports medicine and women’s health to deliver exceptional care close to home.
• Largest health care provider in North Dakota with a total of 786 hospital beds
• Only Level I Adult Trauma Center between Minneapolis, Seattle, Denver and Omaha
• Level II Pediatric Trauma Center and emergency air transport service covering a three-state area
• Home to the Roger Maris Cancer Center
• Named in the national Top 100 Hospitals list
• Primary teaching institution for the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Job Description

Pulmonary Disease Core Privileges include the ability to perform history and physical examination, admit (if applicable to the setting), evaluate, diagnose treat and provide consultative services to patients of all ages presenting with conditions, disorders, and diseases of the lungs and airways. Pulmonologists may provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies. They may assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.

Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. degree.

Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested: An applicant who has just completed fellowship shall provide his/her log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a fellowship shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the last 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 50 pulmonary disease cases in the last 12 months. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s clinic activity for the last 12 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the care of 50 pulmonary disease cases in clinical practice in the last 12 months. More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Successful completion of an Internal Medicine residency program, followed by the completion of a fellowship program in Pulmonary Disease that is accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada in the residency. Training at residency and fellowship programs accredited by organizations other than the above, may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing Policy. Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/ subspecialty 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 fellowship training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their fellowship training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)

Compensation

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

Recruiter Information

Margaret Pfeffer | Maggie Pfeffer, Physician Recruiter

Phone: +1 (701) 2346539 Or margaret.pfeffer@sanfordhealth.org