If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. We invite Board Eligible PM&R Physicians interested in pursuing a Cancer Rehabilitation Fellowship to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together with our Cancer Rehabilitation team at Carolinas Rehabilitation and Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte NC.
The Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Carolinas Medical Center/Carolinas Rehabilitation and Levine Cancer Institute is offering a one-year fellowship (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025) in Cancer Rehabilitation for a board eligible/board certified Physiatrist.
Carolinas Rehabilitation (CR) and the Levine Cancer Institute (LCI) are premier institutions within the southeast delivering rehabilitation and cancer care, respectively. This fellowship opportunity will be based in the Charlotte metro area and will provide a unique opportunity to learn in a well-established oncology rehabilitation practice that spans care throughout the cancer spectrum. Fellows will have clinical experiences for inpatient rehabilitation at CR, outpatient clinics within LCI, electives in oncology care, and consult evaluations at Carolinas Medical Center. Additional experiences will be available within the Department of Supportive Care at LCI, including exposure to integrative oncology, palliative care, survivorship, geriatrics, psychiatry, clinical nutrition, and outpatient rehabilitation therapy.
The fellowship will also allow for other clinical and research opportunities for professional growth and development, exposure into program development, understanding of operational needs for programmatic success, and leadership development.
Ideal candidates will:
Have excellent clinical and academic credentials
Be highly motivated
Desire a challenging clinical/research environment
Posses a North Carolina Medical License and DEA or ability to get one. Costs are reimbursed for candidates who accept the position.
Atrium Health, Inc. one of the nation’s leading and most innovative healthcare organizations, provides a full spectrum of healthcare and wellness programs throughout North Carolinas, South Carolina, and Georgia. Atrium Health has over 5,000 system-employed physicians and more than 70,000 employees, operating more than 42 acute care and specialty hospitals and 1500-plus care locations.
This opportunity will be located in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte, NC offers very affordable cost of living along with strong public and private schools. The practice is located in the Charlotte Metro area and is a quick drive to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
The Charlotte region has a growing population and a thriving economy sitting just under the national average for cost of living. It has wonderful weather with mild winters while still experiencing all four seasons. There is a wealth of recreational activities including two large lakes, 49 miles of greenway trails, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center are a few of the attractions. Charlotte is home to professional football and basketball teams, as well as NASCAR racing and minor league baseball and hockey teams.
When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.
Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health outcomes through innovative research, education and compassionate patient care. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atrium Health is an integrated, nonprofit health system with more than 70,000 teammates serving patients at 40 hospitals and more than 1,400 care locations. It provides care under the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, region, as well as Atrium Health Navicent and Atrium Health Floyd in Georgia and Alabama. Atrium Health is renowned for its top-ranked pediatric, cancer and heart care, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. A recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research, Wake Forest School of Medicine is the academic core of the enterprise, including Wake Forest Innovations, which is advancing new medical technologies and biomedical discoveries. Atrium Health is also a leading-edge innovator in virtual care and mobile medicine, providing care close to home and in the home. Ranked nationally among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals in eight pediatric specialties and for reha...bilitation, Atrium Health has also received the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize and its 2021 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award, as well as the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. With a commitment to every community it serves, Atrium Health seeks to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all, providing more than $2 billion per year in free and uncompensated care and other community benefits.