Job Description: The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC seeks candidates for a fellowship in EMS.
The fellowship will provide graduates with the knowledge and skills to provide medical direction in emergency medical services with a concentration in air medical services and/or critical care transport possible.
The local ground EMS System covers a population of 150,000 in a county of 656 sq miles. All EMS agencies are paramedic level and dispatched through an enhanced 911 center. Exposure to more rural and urban experiences is also provided.
In addition, the region has a hospital based air and critical care transport service (Vidant Medical Transport) which covers 29 counties in NC, with 3 helicopters (1500 flights/yr) and 5 critical care ground ambulances (5,000 transports/yr). Training in disaster management with regional teams is also available. Please visit our website at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/ecuem/div/div_prog.cfm.
The fellow will also perform clinical duties as an attending in our state-of-the-art emergency department, which has resident physicians from our fully accredited emergency medicine residency training program.
We are expanding our faculty to increase our cadre of clinician-educators and further develop programs in pediatric EM, ultrasound, and clinical research. Our current faculty members possess diverse interests and expertise leading to extensive state and national-level involvement.
The emergency medicine residency is well-established and includes 12 EM and 2 EM/IM residents per year. We treat more than 120,000 patients per year in a state-of-the-art ED at Vidant Medical Center. VMC is a 900+ bed level 1 trauma center and regional stroke center. Our tertiary care catchment area includes more than 1.5 million people in eastern North Carolina, many of whom arrive via our integrated mobile critical care and air medical service. Our new children's ED opened in July 2012, and a new children's hospital opened in June 2013.
Greenville, NC is a fast-growing university community located near beautiful North Carolina beaches. Cultural and recreational opportunities are abundant.
Greenville, NC has the benefit of being a very family-oriented, yet vibrant university town located just ninety minutes from the North Carolina Crystal Coast. The University excels in the arts, music, theater and dance, so there are exceptional cultural opportunities, as well as sporting and outdoor events.
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with qualifications; an excellent fringe benefit program is provided.
This is a fixed-term faculty position with the title of Clinical Instructor (Clinical Fellow).
The ECU Brody School of Medicine is affiliated with Vidant Medical Center. Vidant Medical Center is the flagship hospital for Vidant Health and serves as the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina
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Minimum Qualifications: The successful candidate must have an MD/DO and be board certified or board eligible in Emergency Medicine or Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
Physicians must be able to obtain a license to practice medicine in North Carolina; be granted medical staff privileges at Vidant Medical Center and Vidant Beaufort Hospital; be approved to practice medicine through ECU Physicians, and receive medical liability insurance coverage through the BSOM carrier.
Special Instructions to Applicants: East Carolina University requires applicants to submit a candidate profile online in order to be considered for the position. In addition to submitting a candidate profile online, please submit online the required applicant documents:
Curriculum Vitae
Letter of Interest
List of Three References (noting contact information)
Date Initial Screening Begins: 12-30-2016
Job Close Date: Open Until Filled
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East Carolina University
Location: Greenville, NC 27858 Document ID: A5393-01QS Posted on: 2017-05-2205/22/2017 Job Type: RegularJob Schedule:Full-time
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