Job ID: 140175
Location: PA
Category: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Employment Type: Temporary
- Physician Assistant – Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Practice Details Specialty: Physician Assistant – CT Surgery/ CVI
- Target start date and Length of need: Mid-May 2026 – ongoing for 6-8 months
- Locums Shift Schedule: 7 am – 3:30 pm with 30 min lunch included. 5 days per week, 8 hour shifts
- Daily Responsibilities: OR coverage: endoscopic vein harvest, first assisting.
- Inpatient rounding responsibilities: management of postoperative patients, writing notes, placing appropriate orders, removing surgical drains and pacing wires, discharges, admissions, consults.
- Clinic responsibilities: one formal day of clinic per week, includes seeing post op patients, seeing new patients in consultation with the surgeon, preparing and educating patients for surgery. Answering outpatient phone calls.
- Call Schedule and Call Responsibilities: No Call – possible Weekend rounding once per month (Saturday/Sunday, 4 hours each day)
- Type of patients/cases/procedures required: Cardiac surgery patients, CABG, AVR, MVR, TAVR; Approximately 150 open hearts per year
- Patients Per Day/Volume: 6-8 patients per day
- Available support staff & physician support: Other Cardiac PA's, office staff, 1 MD per day
- Required Experience/Training: 2 -3 years cardiac experience
- Trauma: Level II
- # of Beds: 349 beds
- Certifications required (Board Certification/Truly Board Eligible or life support, etc.): BC – Physician Assistant required; BLS, ACLS, PA license, PA DEA
- Will you accept licensure candidates (IMLC or standard process)? Yes
- Minimum candidate commitment to consider: 2 weeks per month
- Hospital Privileging: 90-120 days
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- Never worry about your travel accommodations again! In addition to our in-house travel team, ICON is proud to partner with Christopherson Travel for additional after-hours support.
- All ICON providers will have access to comprehensive benefits including healthcare coverages through the Independent Contractors Benefits Association (ICBA).
- Weekly pay