Academic Faculty Physician- Surgery Oncology

The Department of Surgery at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist/Wake Forest University School of Medicine is recruiting for an Academic Faculty Physician, Surgical Oncology.

Department Description:

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s department of Surgery is nationally recognized for excellence in clinical care and research in specialty areas including:

• Acute care surgery
• Colon and rectal
• Hepatobiliary
• Transplant
• Trauma
• Burs
• Pediatric surgery
• Endocrine
• Surgical oncology
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Hypertension

The Department of Surgery at the Wake Forest School of Medicine is committed to educating the next generation of healthcare providers and innovators.

Our department is nationally recognized for excellence in clinical care and research in specialty areas including acute care surgery, colon and rectal, hepatobiliary, transplant, trauma, burns, pediatric surgery, endocrine, surgical oncology and minimally invasive surgery.

Graduates of the program have gone on to become board-certified surgeons, obtaining highly competitive fellowships in fields such as surgical oncology and pediatric surgery.

Candidate Qualifications and/or Preferences:

• MD or MD/PhD
• Board certification in surgery
• North Carolina licensure or eligible, if applicable

About Us

Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and part of Atrium Health Enterprise. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care. 

Culture Commitments

Culture Commitments

• We create a space where all belong
• We Work as one to make great things happen
• We earn trust in all we do
• We Innovate to better the now and create the future
• We drive for Excellence – always

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Wake Forest Baptist Health and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

Wake Forest Baptist Health (www.WakeHealth.edu) is a nationally recognized academic health system in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an integrated enterprise including educational and research facilities, hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centers, and other primary and specialty care facilities serving 24 counties in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia.

It comprises: a regional clinical system with more than 300 locations, 2,100 physicians and 1,535 acute care beds; Wake Forest School of Medicine; and Wake Forest Innovations, which promotes the commercialization of research discoveries and operates Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology. Wake Forest Baptist’s clinical, research and educational programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country.

Mission

Wake Forest Baptist Health’s mission is to improve the health of our region, state and nation by:

• Generating and translating knowledge to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
• Training leaders in health care and biomedical science.
• Serving as the premier health system in our region, with specific centers of excellence recognized as national and international care destination.

Vision

Wake Forest Baptist Health is a preeminent learning health system that promotes better health for all through collaboration, excellence and innovation.

Values

Excellence

• Demonstrate the highest standards of patient-centered care, education, research and operational effectiveness

Compassion

• Responsive to the physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual needs of all

Service

• Cultivate selfless contribution for the greater good

Integrity

• Demonstrate fairness, honesty, sincerity and accountability

Diversity

• Demonstrate respect for and inclusion of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and perspectives

Collegiality

• Foster mutual respect, facilitate professional growth and mentorship, and reward teamwork and collaboration

Innovation

• Promote creativity to enhance discovery and the application of knowledge

Safety 

• Embrace a culture of reliability through better process design and accountability

Patient and Family Promise

We promise to:

• Keep you safe.
• Care for you.
• Involve you and your family.
• Respect you and your time.

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