Clinical Assistant Professor

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

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The Department of Surgery at The University of North Carolina is seeking applications for a full- time academic trauma, surgical critical care, and acute care surgeon to join our Division of General and Acute Care Surgery. The Division of General and Acute Care Surgery is among 9 clinical Divisions in the Department of Surgery. The Division currently includes 15 faculty members that provide a broad array of clinical services while caring for injured and critically ill patients as well as emergency general surgery patients. This will be a fixed-term Assistant Professor between 0.5 and 1.0 FTE.

Our current Surgical ICU and Intermediate Care floor is a 40-bed unit that houses trauma, emergency general surgery, and elective surgical patients from the Department of Surgery and many surgical subspecialties. Cardiovascular ICU is a 28-bed unit that houses cardiac, thoracic and vascular patients. Surgical attendings may have the opportunity to attend the Cardiovascular ICU if desired. The Department of Surgery also has a one-year Surgical Critical Care fellowship with up to four fellows each year.

Faculty members within the Division of Acute Care Trauma Surgery must possess a desire to commit to all three missions of the department and school of medicine, including the clinical, education, and research missions. Regarding the education mission, faculty members are expected to regularly participate in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows in our Surgical Critical Care fellowship. Additionally, the Acute Care faculty participates in outreach to our many rural referring hospitals and to EMS providers from rural North Carolina counties. Regarding the research mission, a commitment to any one of a broad array of research interests is desirable, including but not limited to clinical, outcomes, health services, basic science, translational, ethics, education, or global surgery research. Regarding the clinical mission, faculty members must be committed to delivering high quality clinical care that is of value to the patients of UNC. The selected candidate will be team-oriented and have the ability to interact well with colleagues inside and out of the Division. Our faculty interact regularly with the hospitalist service, outpatient primary care physicians, surgeons and emergency medicine physicians from both UNC Healthcare and non- UNC referring hospitals.

If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

If you have any questions about the job requirements or the hiring department notify the Department Contact.

The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all to apply without regard to age, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.