Palliative Care Outpatient Physician

Dartmouth Health is looking for an academic palliative care physician to join our palliative care team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center,  Lebanon, NH. Our highly skilled team is comprised of physicians, APPs, RNs, chaplains, and social workers, among others, and boasts an interprofessional fellowship. This position will provide care as part of the outpatient team at the academic medical center. Why should you join us? We seek candidates who want to develop themselves not just as clinicians, but also as medical educators, researchers, or quality improvement specialists, among others. Our faculty benefit from partnership with The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and from close mentoring to achieve their academic and clinical goals.  We believe that high-quality care is provided by clinicians who find meaning in their work and connection with their peers. The successful candidate for this position will be given an academic appointment at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Clinical responsibilities and expectations:

• Provide continuity care to seriously ill patients at our outpatient clinic, on our main Lebanon campus, and via telehealth
• Partner with our skilled, compassionate interprofessional outpatient team: scheduler, full-time licensed clinical social worker, 2 full-time nurses, pharmacist, and 5 physicians
• Clinic schedule is flexible with non-clinical time provided for academic and clinical program development work
• Generous visit lengths
• Opportunity to precept palliative care fellows in continuity clinics

We’re looking for someone who is:

• An excellent communicator
• Skilled at symptom management for seriously ill patients
• Experienced providing outpatient palliative care (in fellowship or beyond)
• Passionate about teaching and mentoring others
• A strong team player
• Effective at collaborating with different disciplines and professions
• BC/BE in palliative medicine by the ABMS or AOA
• Able to obtain/maintain a medical license in NH and VT and a federal DEA license

Why we love to live here:

• Four beautiful seasons and an outdoor lifestyle
• New Hampshire is consistently ranked in the top 5 for quality of life
• Proximity to mountains and the seacoast
• No state income tax or sales tax
• Access to major cities and airports

Dartmouth Health offers an outstanding benefits package including, but not limited to: paid vacation, holiday and sick days, competitive CME allowance and dedicated CME time, medical/dental/vision coverage, and an employer-funded retirement plan. Dartmouth Health stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock; 5 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are building a sustainable health system to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve for generations to come. We are dedicated to creating a health system that is proactive – working to keep people healthy with innovative methods and models of care that provide value-based high-quality care. At Dartmouth Health, we believe that the diversity of our patients, people, and community shows a strength we support and celebrate. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone to thrive, honoring all within our organization and the communities we serve. Our belief is simple and actionable: Dartmouth Health is better when we embrace each other with open hearts and minds, confront our biases, and take a stand for equity and inclusion.