Description
Hiring Range:
$325,000 - $425,000
Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.
Academic Urology Surgicalist Opportunity, Worcester, MA
Location: Worcester, MA
Facility: UMass Memorial Health – UMass Memorial Medical Center
Department: Urology
Schedule: Full-Time
UMass Memorial Medical Group is currently seeking two dedicated and experienced BE/BC Urology Surgicalist to join our dynamic team. Our competitive compensation and benefits package places us as your top choice in the region.
Position Summary:
The Department of Urology at UMass Memorial Health, the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School, offers physicians an extraordinary opportunity to work in a high volume academic surgical practice.
This hospital-based position is dedicated to the surgical and inpatient management of urologic conditions, delivering urgent and emergent care for hospitalized patients and providing surgical consultations in both the emergency department and inpatient setting. The schedule follows a format, offering excellent work-life balance. Physicians benefit from access to advanced OR technology, 24/7 imaging, and interventional radiology support, as well as a collaborative team that includes APPs, residents in teaching hospital, and ancillary staff.
Ideally suited for urologists who excel in fast-paced, acute care environments, this role ensures rapid access to surgical urology care—enhancing patient outcomes, reducing emergency department wait times, and minimizing the need for transfers. The selected candidate will receive a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, along with an academic appointment commensurate with experience and training. Opportunities for clinical, basic, translational, and health-related quality research are abundant within our dynamic and collaborative academic setting. This unique Urology Surgicalist role provides the rare advantage of focusing exclusively on high-impact inpatient care without the demands of an outpatient practice, while also offering significant opportunities for professional growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide inpatient and emergency department urology consultations
- Perform intra-operative consultations
- Manage urgent and emergent urologic procedures and surgeries (e.g., obstructing stones, gross hematuria, testicular torsion, urologic trauma, urinary retention)
- Provide comprehensive care for hospitalized urology patients, including post-operative management
- Collaborate closely with hospitalists, intensivists, emergency medicine physicians, and surgical subspecialists
- Participate in surgical quality improvement initiatives and patient safety programs
- Maintain accurate, thorough, and timely documentation in the electronic medical record
- May supervise or mentor medical students, residents, or advanced practice providers
Qualifications:
- MD or DO from an accredited medical school.
- Board-certified or board-eligible in Urology.
- Eligible for medical licensure in Massachusetts.
- Excellent communication, teamwork, and decision-making skills.
- Comfortable managing high-acuity urologic emergencies in a hospital-based setting.
Top Tier Benefits to Reflect Your Value and Needs
- Employer-funded retirement contributions of 8% of base salary with additional retirement plan options
- Tuition reimbursement, student loan forgiveness support, and PSLF eligible employment
- Concierge services for relocation to include special mortgage promotions
- Professional liability insurance coverage of $5 million per claim and $10 million aggregate
- Organization-wide commitment to formal Clinician Wellness Program
Visit UMass Memorial Medical Group to learn more about our organization.
Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Mitchell Sokoloff
Professor and Chair, Department of Urology
c/o Carmen Sanderson, Provider Recruiter
Cell: 774.525.1935
To apply direct: Academic Urology Surgicalist Opportunity -Worcester, MA
Standards Of Respect
We are committed to fostering and embracing a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Creating a diverse environment of professors and clinicians who offer unique insights and perspectives as we teach the next generation of physicians is critical to our mission. We are engaged in multiple initiatives with UMass Chan Medical School and with UMass Memorial Health to expand the diversity within our Medical Group in the spirit of inclusivity.
