Academic Palliative Medicine Physician

Position Highlights

• Provide inpatient consultations on a busy palliative medicine service and outpatient continuity care in a supportive, team-based environment.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team that includes advanced practice providers, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists, and nurses.
• Teach and mentor fellows, residents, and medical students with protected time for education and scholarship.
• Contribute to quality improvement, program development, and research initiatives across Tulane Health System.
• Participate in institutional leadership activities such as Cancer Center expansion, Academic Excellence Councils, and wellness initiatives including the Death Café series.

Tulane offers the resources of a large academic medical center with the culture of a close-knit program where your contributions are highly valued.

• Competitive salary with incentive opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits: health, dental, vision, life insurance, 403(b) retirement plan
• Tuition waiver for self and dependents at Tulane University for full-time physicians
• CME allowance and protected time
• Paid malpractice insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Physician wellness and work-life balance support

• Schedule/Call:
  Shared call rotation with collegial coverage; designed to protect work-life balance
• Team Model:
  Fully staffed interdisciplinary team (APPs, chaplains, social workers, pharmacist, nurses)
• Protected time for teaching, scholarship, and academic activities
• Mentorship for early career physicians:
  Work alongside nationally recognized leaders in Hospice and Palliative Care.