What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pulmonologist Opportunity - 8 Weeks PTO - Beautiful Montana position at Benefis Medical Group?
Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Montana is currently recruiting?for a progressive Pulmonary physician?to join our busy team of Physicians and APPs to support outpatient and procedure volumes. The department currently employs three experienced Critical Care Pulmonologists (who also work in ICU), an Outpatient Pulmonologist (departing), a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician Assistant.
Position Details :
- Ideal candidate will have good bronchoscopy skills including EBUS and navigational bronchoscopy. Specialty procedures performed in the bronch lab include : Bronchothermoplasty, Cryotherapy / Bronchial Blocker, APC? Cautery, Super Dimension, EBUS, Lung Stent, Laser Phototherapy, and Pleurex Cath Insertion
- The department is equipped with a plethysmography, a spirometer and complete pulmonary function testing lab as well as a new cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory, state of the art navigational bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound.?
- Opportunity to teach 3 rd and 4 th year medical students and to participate in a future internal medicine residency program
- There is also opportunity to participate in / develop pre and post-transplant coordination if desired
Work Hours and Call Coverage :
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Community Information : Great Falls is known as Montana’s base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.
Benefis Health System is one of Montana’s largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker’s “Best Places To Work in Healthcare” for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state’s land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.
Salary : $5,000
