Academic Opportunities
West Virginia University School of Medicine Eastern Campus seek internists for multiple full-time faculty outpatient only positions. Ranks available are Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor The successful candidate will practice in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in WV.
Duties: The successful candidate will practice in the areas of Internal Medicine. In addition to providing excellent patient care, the successful candidate will also be actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows and will take an active role in the new internal medicine residency program.
This position is on the academic outpatient internal medicine service in Berkeley and/or Jefferson Counties. Limited triaged telephone office only night call. WVU Medicine Eastern Canpus is a growing academic Internal Medicine section that affords the faculty member teaching opportunities with internal medicine residents and medical students in an outpatient clinical setting. Internal Medicine faculty will also participate in didactic conferences and have access to scholarly and research opportunities. The primary hospital is Berkeley Medical Center, a 200-bed teaching hospital in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, with a 19 bed ICU, cardiac catheterization lab, interventional radiology, and the full range of medical and surgical consultative services. There are active Neurosurgical, Cardiovascular, and Oncology programs via our Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, Heart and Vascular Institute, and Cancer Institute, respectively. Additional tertiary care support is provided by a strong collaborative relationship with Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV.
Qualifications: Candidate must have an MD or DO degree or foreign equivalent and be eligible for state medical license. Successful candidate must have completed an Internal Medicine residency program and be board certified / eligible in Internal Medicine. All qualifications must be met by the time of appointment.
Berkeley and Jefferson Counties are in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, a rapidly growing part of the state, just over an hour to an hour and a half from Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD with easy access to three major international airports. It is consistently rated as one of the best small metropolitan areas in the country for both lifestyle and business climate. The area offers access to large city amenities in a safe, family-friendly environment. There are an excellent school system and an abundance of restaurants, historical locations, and outdoor recreational activities.
The West Virginia University Health System is West Virginia’s largest health system and the state’s largest employer. The System has undergone significant expansion in specialty and sub-specialty care in areas such as cancer, heart and vascular, and neuroscience, among many others. The Health System operates West Virginia’s first and only multi-organ transplant center, and opened a new, 150-bed Children’s Hospital in September 2022.
Today, the WVU Health System has more than 2,400 licensed beds, 3,900 providers, and nearly 30,000 employees. Anchored by a 700-bed academic medical center in Morgantown, the Health System includes more than 24 member hospitals that collectively serve a multi-state region that includes West Virginia, Western Maryland, Eastern Ohio, and Southwestern Pennsylvania.