Physician - Plastic & Reconstruction

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.



 Visas Accepted

N/A

 Specialty

Plastic & Reconstruction

 Practice Details

Sanford Health, an integrated multispecialty health system, is seeking a BE/BC Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon to join our established practice in Fargo, North Dakota. This is an opportunity to develop a broad and rewarding plastic surgery practice within a Level I Trauma Center and major regional referral center serving a catchment area of more than one million people. The position offers a diverse mix of reconstructive and elective surgery, with the flexibility to develop areas of practice that reflect the successful candidate's training and clinical interests.

Microsurgical training and experience are welcomed but are not required.

• Join an established practice with two plastic surgeons and two advanced practice providers
• Practice within a Level I Trauma Center and tertiary regional referral center
• Broad practice encompassing reconstructive, breast, general plastic, cosmetic, and post-bariatric surgery
• Significant opportunities for complex soft-tissue and oncologic reconstruction
• Collaborative and combined cases with surgical oncology, gynecologic oncology, orthopedic surgery, trauma surgery, and other specialties
• Opportunity for breast reconstruction, including both implant-based and autologous techniques according to the surgeon's training and interests
• Opportunity for extremity reconstruction and limb salvage
• For surgeons with microsurgical expertise, opportunities are available for free-tissue transfer and microsurgical breast and extremity reconstruction
• Flexibility to develop a practice reflecting the surgeon's individual expertise and professional interests
• Balanced mixture of inpatient and outpatient care
• Modern clinic and hospital facilities with advanced surgical equipment
• Regional catchment area exceeding one million
• Call approximately 10 days per month
• Opportunities to teach medical students, surgical residents, and other trainees

 Community Description

The Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo metro area is a diverse, family-oriented community of 250,000 people that offers high quality of life and low cost of living. Outstanding schools, a vibrant business community, a thriving downtown district, cultural activities, and a wide variety of sports and recreation are just a few of the many reasons people love to call the Fargo area home.

 Job Description

Plastic Surgery Core Privileges include the ability to perform history and physical examination, admit, evaluate, diagnose and provide nonsurgical and surgical care to patients of all ages presenting with illnesses, injuries, and disorders that require the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, cranio-maxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk, and external genitalia.

 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 log. OR

An 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 24 months, including numbers of procedures morbidity, mortality, infection rates and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 200 Plastic Surgery procedures in the last 24 months.

OR

If a quality profile is not available from the hospital, where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicants clinical and outpatient activity for the past 24 months is required. Applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of Plastic Surgery and case volumes should show performance of at least 200 procedures in the past 24 months.

More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Successful completion of a hospital affiliated Plastic Surgical residency program (can be either the independent or integrated residency training models)1. The ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada must accredit residency programs. 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 above.

Current subspecialty certification in plastic surgery by the America Board of Plastic Surgery or American Osteopathic Board of Surgery.

OR

Successful completion of an (ACGME) or (AOA) accredited residency in a surgical specialty followed by successful completion of an accredited in plastic surgery residency (can be either the independent or integrated residency training models) and active participation in the examination process with achievement of certification within 5 years of completion of formal training leading to subspecialty certification in plastic surgery by the American Board of Surgery or the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery. (Refer to each entities policy for grandfather exceptions)

Any individual who does not satisfy the board certification criterion may request that the appropriate governing Board waive it. The individual requesting the waiver bears the burden of demonstrating that his or her qualifications are equivalent to, or exceed, the criterion in question.

Privileging documents and related credentialing requirements will supersede this job description in defining minimum qualifications, criteria, and scope of practice, if variation between documents exists.

 Compensation

Plastic Surgery, Fargo

• Compensation floor of $650,000 for the first two years of the employment contract, plus estimated potential to exceed compensation floor from personally performed wRVUs.
• In addition, a $100,000 retention incentive to be paid if you remain a 1.0 FTE for 3 years (this will be subject to a contractual agreement specifying all details)

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

Jenna Berlinger, Physician Recruiter

Phone: +1 (701) 2346510 or Email: [email hidden]

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