Trauma, Burn & Acute Care Surgeon — Assistant Professor

MUSC Health; South Carolina; On-site; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC invites applications for a Trauma, Acute Care, and Burn Surgeon at the Assistant Professor level within the Division of Acute Care Surgery. This is a shared appointment, balancing clinical trauma/general surgery services and burn care, with opportunities to develop an academic program in education or research.

Ideal candidates are board-certified/board-eligible in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, licensed in SC, and

Qualifications

• Board Certified or Board Eligible in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
• Eligible for medical licensure in South Carolina.
• Fellowship in burn surgery, or substantial burn experience, preferred.
• Interest in trauma, emergency general surgery, surgical critical care, and burn care.
• Career focus in academic surgery with research or quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide operative and nonoperative care on the trauma and emergency general surgery services, including in-house trauma call.
• Provide intensive care unit coverage for critically ill surgical, trauma, and burn patients.
• Participate in the full continuum of burn care, including acute resuscitation, excision and grafting, wound management, and outpatient burn follow-up.
• Teach and mentor medical students, general surgery residents, and surgical critical care and burn fellows.
• Contribute to the academic, quality improvement, and performance improvement missions of the trauma, burn, and acute care surgery programs.

Skills

Trauma surgery

Burn care

Academic surgery

Critical care

Job description

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC invites applications for a Trauma, Acute Care, and Burn Surgeon at the Assistant Professor level within the Division of Acute Care Surgery. This is a shared appointment, balancing clinical trauma/general surgery services and burn care, with opportunities to develop an academic program in education or research.

Ideal candidates are board-certified/board-eligible in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, licensed in SC, and