Tennova - North Knoxville Medical Center is assisting an established private practice in the community, with recruiting a BC/BE General Surgery: Surgical Oncologist for a multi-specialty group.
Special Requirements/Skills/Interest: A surgeon that does both general surgery and surgical oncology (breast, colorectal, etc.)
Located in beautiful east Tennessee just minutes from the Smoky Mountains and with easy access to numerous deep-water lakes and a mild climate offering all four seasons. Cultural amenities include Broadway and regional theater companies, symphony, orchestra, multiple music venues, Tennessee’s flagship university and the related nationally ranked sports programs. Knoxville maintains a strong economic base across multiple industries, including automotive, healthcare, government, education, and technology with an MSA of over one million residents. We are only 3 hours from the major metropolitan hubs of Nashville and Atlanta.
Premier’s physicians value the independent practice of medicine and believe that the independent practice model provides patients with the highest quality of care. Independent practice provides physicians the freedom to practice giving patients the widest range of healthcare options.
Premier Surgical seeks a fellowship-trained Surgical Oncologist surgeon to join our well-established team of thirty-two surgeons. Our opportunity at Tennova - North Knoxville Medical Center sits in the heart of Powell and is a new, state-of-the-art hospital. The medical center serves the residents of North Knoxville and surrounding counties in East TN. We are now a teaching hospital with an Internal Medicine Residency Program!
Our full-service hospital recently opened a new patient tower and now features 172 acute-care beds, a 37-bed Emergency Room, surgical services (including robotics), interventional cardiology & radiology, neurology, radiation therapy, and advanced imaging and diagnostic capabilities.
Opportunity Highlights
- Premier’s thirty-two physicians comprise the area’s largest private, independent surgical group, providing services at four of the area’s five hospitals.
- Depending on training and interest, surgical opportunities include breast, pancreas and hepatobiliary, skin cancer and soft tissue sarcoma, as well as colorectal disease. The facility has a robust robotic surgery program as well.
- Multiple tumor conferences each month across the system.
- Competitive salary, partnership track, group health, dental, life, disability, and retirement benefits
- Annual CME allowance, relocation package
- Growth and leadership opportunities both with Premier and in Tennova’s regional cancer program which draws oncology referrals from a system of five hospitals in the region.
- Learn more at www.premiersurgical.com