Hospital / Clinic Employed Surgery: Cardiothoracic Job in Dothan, Alabama
This Cardiothoracic Surgery position in Dothan, Alabama is offered as a hospital/clinic-employed opportunity. In this arrangement, the employing organization serves as both the recruiting and paying entity: you would work as a W-2 employee, with the employer administering compensation, benefits, malpractice coverage, and scheduling, and typically supplying the clinical facility, staff, and referral infrastructure. This setup is designed to minimize business and administrative responsibilities so you can focus on clinical work.
Compensation for this role may be structured as an income guarantee, straight employment, or an employment agreement with a production bonus, with the financial offering listed at the national average tier. Relocation assistance is available for candidates who need to move for the position.
- Internal group call rotation: 1:4
- Emergency department call: No call
The role is open to candidates who are board certified or board eligible, trained through allopathic or osteopathic pathways, and at any experience level from those currently in training to very experienced physicians. It is located in a community sized between 25,000 and 49,999 residents.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Surgery: Cardiothoracic
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:4
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
The CV surgery program is supported by four very well respected and busy full-time cardiologists, two of whom are interventional. Facility al has four rooms in its busy cath lab as well as full cardiology diagnostics and rehab programs. The program can produce upward of over 150 CV surgeries per year. Hospital has a large catchment area of over 300,000 people with a high incidence of cardiac illness and comorbidities. The CV program currently has a full-time nurse practitioner/RNFA and is supported by 24/7 perfusion coverage. A highly skilled OR team is available that routinely performs complex heart and vascular cases. Dedicated operating room block time is scheduled for the specialty. The surgeon would have ample office space co-located with other surgeons in a physician office building attached to the hospital. The anesthesiology program is very strong, with physicians who live and work in the community and have deep CV surgery experience. An MDA or CRNA is available 24/7 in-house. The structure of the program is one full-time CV surgeon and one full-time nurse practitioner. The surgeon would be required to be on-call the propensity of the month with periodic locum tenenes support for time-off and holidays. The surgeon must live in the Dothan area for rapid response in emergent cases. Hospital is a major referral center for the Tri-State area of south Alabama, southwest Georgia and northwest Florida.
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Straight Employment, Employment Agreement with production bonus
- Financial Offering: National Average
- Median Compensation: $979,055 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Yes
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: Negotiable
- Practice State: Alabama
- Practice City: Dothan
- Community Size: 25,000 - 49,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Hospital
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- Agency: Oakland Professional Staffing Solutions
