Academic Opportunities
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), College of Medicine, Department of Radiation Medicine is seeking an experienced full-time radiation oncologist to work at New River Oncology, a satellite facility located in beautiful Okatie, near Bluffton, SC. This facility is a strategic partnership between the local hospital system Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) and the Medical University of South Carolina.
The satellite center is equipped with a state-of-the-art Varian Halcyon treatment system, CT-simulator, ARIA oncology EMR, and Eclipse treatment planning system. Staff include full-time onsite nursing and therapists with support from a full-time physicist and a dosimetrist. The center has a sister site, Keyserling Cancer Center, in Beaufort, 22 miles away, equipped with a Varian TrueBeam linac with the same treatment planning and management systems. The physician at New River will focus on that site but will have access to the Beaufort center as well. The physicians at the two sites will partner to build the practices at both facilities. Whereas the primary role is to be the medical director and lead physician at the New River center, he/she is expected to be integrated into the overall programs of the Medical University of South Carolina and the Hollings Cancer Center, an NCI-designated cancer center.
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Located 1.5 hours south of Charleston and 1 hour north of Savannah, GA, the Beaufort - Bluffton region is one of the fastest growing in the country. Opportunity for growth of the practice as well as great quality of life abound for a BC/BE general radiation oncologist who would enjoy active support from and involvement with a major tertiary referral center and teaching hospital system, including an NCI-designated cancer center.
MUSC Health, the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina, sees more than one million patient encounters annually, and its specialized care teams consistently rank among the best in the country. This integrated health care system is accessible via its downtown Charleston campus, seven regional medical centers, more than 100 outreach locations, clinical affiliations with numerous health care partners, and a robust telehealth network.
MUSC Health delivers transformational care shaped by world-class clinicians, health scientists, and educators who provide leading-edge care while developing the next generation of innovative health care leaders. We empower our providers to transform expertise, learning and discovery into unrivaled patient-centered care, and to demonstrate our values of compassion, teamwork, diversity, accountability and innovation in everything we do.
We invite you to join a team committed to changing what’s possible in healthcare, and to do so in one of the most exciting cities in the country.