Physician - Anesthesiology - Rapid City, SD

Practice Details

Sanford Health and Black Hills Surgical Hospital are seeking an experienced Anesthesiologist to join our surgical practice in Rapid City, SD.

• The team is comprised of two Anesthesiologists and twenty-two CRNAs to cover eleven operating rooms in a care team supervision approach.
• Duties would include a robust regional practice shared between the anesthetists and anesthesiologists, with a devoted Block Nurse running the latest GE ultrasound units, reaching approximately 6000 blocks per year.
• Oversight of the pre- and post-anesthesia care units and ensuring patients are properly cleared for surgery in conjunction with a pre-anesthesia testing clinic.
• Collaboration with surgeons and nursing alike on complicated patients, ensuring safe anesthetic delivery.
• Our practice offers a great work-life balance with flexible shifts and minimal weekend engagement.
• Call is 1:14 with CRNA first call.

Job Description

Anesthesiology Core Privileges include performing history and physical examinations and the comprehensive management of patients of all ages rendered unconscious or insensible to pain and emotional stress during surgical, obstetrical.

Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. degree.

Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways: An applicant who has just completed a fellowship shall provide his/her fellowship log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 24 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 200 Anesthesia cases in the last 24 months. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s hospital-based clinical activity for the past 24 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement in at least 200 Anesthesia cases in the last 24 months.

More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Successful completion of a hospital affiliated residency/fellowship of at least 3-4 years’ duration in Anesthesia accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada in the residency. The Credentials Committee and the Board of Directors may consider training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above.

Certification by the appropriate specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless appropriate governing Board waives such requirement.