Sanford Health is seeking a BC/BE Palliative Medicine Physician, fellowship-trained, to join their growing team in Fargo, ND. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide both inpatient and outpatient services, working alongside an existing palliative medicine physician and a supportive interdisciplinary team. The position includes teaching residents and fellows, with a flexible schedule and no current call requirements.
Practice Info
- Opportunity involves both inpatient and outpatient services provided
- Joining one palliative medicine physician and supported by 3 APPs and other interdisciplinary team members
- Opportunity involves teaching residents along with the Hematology Oncology Fellows
- No call requirements at this time, however, this is subject to change in the future
Responsibilities
- Perform history and physical examination
- Admit patients
- Provide consultative services
- Evaluate, diagnose and provide nonsurgical care to patients of all ages presenting with life threatening or severe advanced illness
- Focus care on alleviating suffering and promoting quality of life
Compensation
- Nationally competitive compensation plan
- Relocation allowance
Benefits
- 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
Shift & Schedule
- Clinic hours are Monday through Friday from 8AM to 5PM; however, schedule can be flexible
Requirements
- 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 a fellowship provides his/her fellowship 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 the care of 25 terminally ill or severely/chronically ill patients during the last 12 months with satisfactory quality data. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant's clinical setting activity for the last 12 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the care of 25 terminally ill or severely/chronically ill patients in the last 12 months with satisfactory quality data.
- Successful completion of an Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatric, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology or Surgery residency program and completion of a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; Or applicant has completed the experience pathway established by the ACGME and have obtained board certification in Hospice Palliative Care Medicine.
- 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.
- 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.