Pediatric General Surgeon
🔍 Edmonton Zone
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- General Surgery
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- MED0005K1 Requisition #
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- 6 hours ago Post Date
The Division of Pediatric Surgery is an integral part of the Department of Surgery and provides secondary through quaternary care services for the city of Edmonton, northern Alberta and parts of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Yukon Territories and Nunavut. This position will be based at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, a leading clinical, research and teaching center. The Stollery is considered a high-volume center for pediatric general surgery in Canada: it sees more than 300,000 children each year from across Alberta, northern British Columbia, the Prairies, and the Territories. Its Emergency Department handles over 55,000 emergency room visits annually. It performs approximately 12,000 pediatric surgeries per year, of which over 1, 800 are pediatric general surgeries. It operates 236 beds as the second-largest children's hospital in Canada. Its’ NICU networks respond to as many as 2,226 newborns across its co-located and partner hospital site.
The successful applicant will fully join the pediatric general surgery group practice, who provide a full range of elective (clinics and ORs) and emergency services (on call) at the Stollery Children’s Hospital for patients up to the age of 18 years. The general surgical skills needed are for wide range of pediatric patients as outpatient, on the wards, emergency, NICU, PICU, PCICU, trauma, oncology, and prenatal counselling. Applicants are expected to have superior technical surgical skills, clinical judgment, and the ability to collaborate with a multidisciplinary health care team.
The successful candidate must be a surgeon having fulfilled the fellowship qualifications of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in General Surgery with subspecialty fellowship training in Pediatric General Surgery and be eligible for licensure in the province of Alberta.
Remuneration will be on a fee-for-service basis through billings submitted by the physician to Alberta Health. There is a possibility of clinical ARP. Clinics, OR time resources, and on-call will be shared with the group, and the secretarial support will need to be covered by the applicant.
Consideration of applications will continue until the position is filled. Interested applicants should submit a current curriculum vitae, a letter of intent and names of three references to the attention of: Dr. Ioana Bratu.