Description
UPMC in Central PA is seeking a full-time Neurosurgical PA to join our growing Neurosurgery and Neuro-Interventional program. Our Physician Assistants play an integral role in helping to provide high quality, compassionate care to patients in our community.
Practice Details:
- Advancing Neurosurgical Program; cranial, spine, endovascular, and peripheral nerve offerings.
- Collegial team of neurosurgeons, existing APP?s as well opportunities to continue to add providers.
- Multidisciplinary integration of clinical programs including neurology, neurocritical care, pain management and ortho-spine.
- Ability to work in all clinical settings including outpatient clinic, inpatient rounding/consult service, neuro-interventional, and surgical assisting.
- Monday ? Friday schedule with minimal call responsibilities, including overnight and weekend rotations, shared equally.
- Willingness to travel to hospital locations including Dauphin and Cumberland counties. In addition, various satellite office locations in surrounding counties.
- Active participation in establishing, monitoring, and evaluating quality of care.
- Achievement of positive patient outcomes.
- Mentorship provided to the individual as well as continuous efforts with the team.
- Educational opportunities offered within the department and beyond.
- Epic EMR system-wide
Professional Skills
- Accepting experienced practitioners as well as new graduates.
- Preferred: prior experience with evaluation and treatment of patients with neurological disorders
- Must be a graduate of an AMA-approved program and be board certified by the appropriate entity.
- Current registration with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
- ACLS certification required.
- ENLS education is required within the first year of employment.
About South Central Pennsylvania
- Features both rural and suburban living and boasts an abundance of sports, arts, cultural events, and entertainment. Close to historically significant areas such as Gettysburg and world-famous Hershey Park and Hershey?s Chocolate World.
- Offers top-rated public schools, blue-ribbon private schools, and some of Pennsylvania?s top colleges and universities. Area school districts are consistently ranked in the top 20 percent of Pennsylvania. With affordable homes ? a composite cost of living index of 99.7, compared to 126.5 in Philadelphia ? it?s a great place to grow a career and family
- Listed among Forbes.com ?America?s Most Livable Cities,? and ranked in U.S. News & World Report?s ?Best Cities to Live.? We are a two to three hour drive away from New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
About UPMC Central Pa
UPMC Central Pa is a nationally recognized leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered health care services in central Pennsylvania and surrounding rural communities. The not-for-profit system cares for more than 1.2 million area residents yearly, providing life-saving emergency care, essential primary care and leading-edge diagnostic services. The UPMC Pinnacle health system includes seven acute care hospitals with 1,161 licensed beds, over 160 outpatient clinics and ancillary facilities, more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals, and approximately 11,000 employees. It is a health care hub serving Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Juniata, Franklin, Adams and parts of Snyder counties.
For the latest information on available opportunities, please call Denise Bordner, Physician Recruiter at 717-231-8767 or submit your CV to bordnerdm2@upmc.edu.
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