Trauma​/Acute Care Surgeons

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Letter of Interest
List of Three References (noting contact information)

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• Job Title
• Position Number 968573
• Vacancy Open to All Candidates
• Department EHH BSOM Surgery Trauma
• Department Homepage (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./
• Advertising Department SURGERY–TRAUMA
• Division ECU Health/BSOM
• Classification Title Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
• Number of Vacancies 2
• Full Time Equivalent 1.0
• Full Time or Part Time Full Time
• Anticipated Recruitment Range:
  Salary offered may be outside of this range as impacted by budget, UNC salary administration, and/or candidate qualifications. Commensurate with qualifications
• Job Category Faculty (Physician)

The Department of Surgery is a multi‑faceted organization in a complex organizational structure. It is a department within the School of Medicine with the attendant responsibility for patient care, medical education and research. The Chair of the department is also the Chief of Surgical services for the hospital and, as such, has a broad range of activities including administration of the OR;

allocation of scarce OR resources; adequacy of surgical beds; and credentialing of hospital surgical staff.

The department includes full‑time faculty members in the sections of: general & bariatric surgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, surgical oncology, transplant surgery, trauma & acute care surgery. The department faculty provide surgical care to the people of eastern North Carolina, including pre‑operative and post‑operative care. The department provides surgical education to medical students and residents every day of the year. The department also has a vibrant research program including funded grants and clinical trials.

The employees in the department support the clinical, education and research work of the department. To accomplish these tasks requires a highly competent, appropriately classified, and an adequately paid staff.

ECU Health Physicians and East Carolina University’s Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, are seeking applicants to fill the positions of Trauma and Acute Care Surgeons. Academic employment at title/rank of Clinical Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor, Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor, or Clinical Professor/Professor is available. Tenure track is available to qualified applicants.

The successful candidate will join a division of eleven academic acute care surgeons in the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery to staff the Trauma Service, Surgical and Trauma Intensive Care Unit, and Emergency General Surgery at ECU Health Medical Center, an ACS verified level 1 University Trauma Center. The Trauma Center experiences an annual patient volume of approximately 4,000 injured patients, including a 15% rate of penetrating injury.

ECU Health Medical Center is the flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center is a fully accredited JCAHO hospital and is a 974‑bed tertiary referral center, providing acute, intermediate, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to…