Acute Care Surgeon - ED Response and Inpatient Care

Piedmont Healthcare; Covington (GA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Comprehensive Benefits

Epic EMR

Physician Governance

Quality, Service, and Reputation

Job summary

Piedmont Newton and Piedmont Walton are hiring surgicalists/acute care surgery providers to both locations in Georgia. These surgeons will provide emergency department surgical response, oversight of inpatient surgical rounds, and inpatient surgical consultation.

The surgicalist will work primarily in the inpatient setting and is paired with ambulatory (office-based) general surgeons, so that hospital-based acute and inpatient care is deliberately separated from scheduled clinic and elective

Qualifications

• Education and training: MD or DO with completion of an accredited general surgery residency.
• Certification: Board certification, or board eligibility with a defined path to certification, in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.
• Licensure: Active, unrestricted Georgia medical license (or eligibility), DEA registration, and eligibility for medical staff privileges at Piedmont Newton Hospital.
• Clinical competence: Demonstrated competence across the breadth of emergency and inpatient general surgery, including acute abdominal and soft-tissue conditions.
• Team orientation: Commitment to protocol-driven, team-based care, prompt emergency response, and collaborative work with emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, and advanced practice providers.

Responsibilities

• Provide emergency department surgical response.
• Oversight of inpatient surgical rounds.
• Inpatient surgical consultation.
• Work primarily in the inpatient setting and coordinate with ambulatory general surgeons to separate hospital-based care from scheduled clinic work.

Skills

Team orientation

Emergency department

Inpatient general surgery

Education

MD/DO with general surgery residency

Tools

Epic EMR

Job description

Piedmont Newton and Piedmont Walton are hiring surgicalists/acute care surgery providers to both locations in Georgia. These surgeons will provide emergency department surgical response, oversight of inpatient surgical rounds, and inpatient surgical consultation.

The surgicalist will work primarily in the inpatient setting and is paired with ambulatory (office-based) general surgeons, so that hospital-based acute and inpatient care is deliberately separated from scheduled clinic and elective