Career Opportunities

Patient Care Duties:

• Develop and maintain faculty interventional cardiology medicine practice; Clinical Care of patients in department including participating with department call schedule;
• Provide cardiology consultations, inpatient and outpatient, for Mercer Medicine faculty patients and other patients as requested by community physicians;
• Perform interventional and other cardiology procedures for MCCG and Mercer Medicine patients;
• Actively participate in Medical Staff and Hospital Committees;
• Complete all Medical Record documentation requirements as specified in the Medical Staff Rules and Regulations on a concurrent basis;
• Participate in Emergency Center call schedule as required.

Teaching Duties for Internal Medicine Residency & IM Clerkship:

• Supervise and instruct Internal Medicine residents, family medicine residents and 4th year students on cardiology service or cardiology rotations;
• Serve as faculty attending including daily teaching and work rounds;
• Develop, implement, accomplish, & monitor goals for cardiology education;
• Review and update cardiology curriculum as needed and at least every three years as required by the RRC-IM;
• Provide 6 to 8 core curriculum lectures per year in the areas of cardiology;
• Serve as faculty attending for resident cardiology clinic 1 to 2 times per month;
• Provide cardiology consults for staff medicine patients;
• Supervise resident and medical student cardiology procedures;
• Provide mentorship to IM residents interested in cardiology fellowship training;
• Tutor selected phases for Mercer students; Participate in student clerkship lecture series as designated by the clerkship director

Administrative Duties:

• Opportunities for research in clinical trials and outcomes research;
• Serve on department, hospital, university committees as requested by chairman

Academic rank commensurate with training and experience.

M.D. or D.O. degree from an accredited institution and board certification in Cardiology required. Georgia medical license or eligibility for licensure in the State of Georgia also required. Experience in ambulatory practice setting and academic medicine environment highly desirable.

Interested applicants must complete the brief online application and attach a current CV and a letter of application. In addition, arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:

Jeffrey Stephens, M.D., Interim Chair
Department of Medicine
707 Pine Street
Macon, GA 31201

Selection of the final candidate is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.