General Surgery Physician, locums, Dickinson, ND
Frisco, Texas, United States

Job Summary

Occupation Physician
Specialty Surgery-General
Degree Required MD/DO
Position Type Full-Time Locums/Travel
Work Environment Hospital
Location Dickinson, North Dakota, United States
Visa Sponsorship No

Job Description

Last Update: 11/18/24

CHI St. Alexius Health in Dickinson, ND. General Surgery is looking for 2-3 Locums
Any contractor accepted will need to go through payor enrollment.
Dates of coverage:
August 26th on going

Details: The need is to start on August 26th and would be ongoing with 14 days a month and 10 days of call to also include seeing patients in the clinic. We also will look at candidates who are also IMLC in process in addition to full IMLC.

Q&A:
  • Will this be a pure call coverage, or will they need to do Clinic and Call? How may days per month do they need coverage for? 14 days a month and 10 days of call to also include seeing patients in the clinic

  • If there is clinic what are the clinic hours and surgery days?
  1. Monday 8-5 Clinic;
  2. Tuesday - Surgery - Clinic hours after surgery depending on the surgery schedule;
  3. Wednesday 8-5 Clinic;
  4. Thursday - Surgery - Clinic hours after surgery depending on the surgery schedule
  5. Friday 8-2 Clinic.

Trauma Level: IV

Bed count: 25

Surgery: Scheduled M-F.

Emergent: 7 days/week 24/7

Call: 24/7/365

Call response time: 20 mins

Average daily census: 15

Average number GS patients per 24 hrs of call: 0-5

GS needs to be available for phone consults, admissions and rounding on GS patients-only

Agency physician will not supervise any APP

Anesthesia coverage is provided by CRNA group

Required Procedures:

  • Abdominal
  • Endoscopy
  • Liver
  • Stomach
  • Gallbladders
  • Appendix
  • Colon
  • Laparoscopy
  • Spleen

Preferred:

  • Pediatrics
  • Thyroid
  • Pulmonary
  • Vascular

Not required:

  • Amputations
  • Csections
  • Hysts
  • Respirator Care

Travel Preferences (see attachment for specific travel guidelines):

  • Preferred Lodging: Preferred hotels: Candlewood Suites - 1430 Sims St. Dickinson, ND. 5860. In the event that the CommonSpirit Health preferred hotel is not available, hotel/lodging rates will be reimbursed based on actual expense, up to 1.5 times the current GSA rate for the market. [Register to View]
  • Air Travel: Local, preferred but not required. $750/round trip cap
  • Rental Cars: $65/day all in cap (including taxes and fees) regardless of car class.
  • Mileage: IRS Standard Rate
  • Board Certified - REQUIRED (We will accept BE within 3 years of US residency training)
  • ACLS and ND DEA - REQUIRED
  • Will look at candidates who are also IMLC in process to full IMLC
  • Prefer clean files. Will not accept any physicians actively on monitoring agreements. Also will not accept anyone with revoked license or privileges. If a candidate has incidents of malpractice and/or legal proceedings, PLEASE, PLEASE include a brief narrative that has the dates, settlement amount, disposition status, where it occurred; this will avoid any delays in our review process.

Privileging lead time: 30 days. Temporary privileges are available.

CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson has been proudly serving southwestern North Dakota since 1912, and we continue to expand our services and update our technology to better serve the community in the years to come. Our goal is to provide you with quality, compassionate care. We want to provide you with exceptional medicine, as well as give you the tools to enjoy exceptional health.

With the support of the local community, CHI St. Alexius Health constructed a new, state-of-the-art health care facility in west Dickinson in 2014. This beautiful facility houses our critical access hospital and all of our Dickinson clinic locations under one roof. Along with our facility located at 2500 Fairway Street in Dickinson, we administer a wide range of clinic services at the same location, along with our rural clinic in Beach, ND.