Physician Assistant (PA-C) - Thoracic Surgery Clinic - Full Time - 8hr Days
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Posted: 03-Oct-25
Location: Tarzana, California
Internal Number: 12264
Job Description
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At Cedars-Sinai, the work you do every day directly affects others' lives. Our passionate and dedicated culture has earned us six Magnet designations for nursing excellence. Join us and experience why U.S. News & World Report recognizes us as one of America's Best Hospitals!
Cedars-Sinai is looking for a Physician Assistant (PA-C) to join our expanding Thoracic Surgery Team at Cedar-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center. The Thoracic Surgery Department is dedicated to providing specialized care for a wide range of conditions within the chest cavity, including acid reflux and hiatal hernia. Our expert team offers advanced surgical solutions for both benign and malignant conditions affecting the trachea, lung, esophagus, mediastinum, and chest wall. Utilizing cutting-edge 3D surgical techniques, our surgeons perform procedures with smaller incisions, resulting in better outcomes, reduced blood loss, and quicker recovery times. Our thoracic surgeons are also trained in robotic surgery, equipping them with the skills and experience to conduct safe and effective procedures. Our multidisciplinary team includes surgeons, oncologists, anesthesiologists, and other specialists, ensuring comprehensive patient care. We prioritize prompt testing, offering same-day or within 24-hour services to quickly address patient needs. Additionally, we employ robotic bronchoscopy to detect early-stage lung nodules that are difficult to reach with traditional biopsy methods. At Cedars-Sinai, our commitment to innovation and excellence in thoracic surgery ensures that our patients receive the highest quality care.
This position will primarily be based at Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center and the outpatient clinic, but will also involve assisting the supervising physician at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and participating in training there.
Work in close collaboration with the supervising physician as well as independently.
Provide pre- and post-op assessments of patients.
Will perform consults to acquire relevant health and medical history.
Performs a physical examination based on age and history and dictates progress notes for follow-up with appropriate physician/s.
Complete orders related to preventive and diagnostic procedures based on the patient?s medical history.
Assist physician by performing screening, consultation and follow-up calls to answer questions from patients.
Provide surgical assistance in the Operating Room.
The Physician Assistant will be rounding on patients in the hospital with Physician and independently. Will write orders in Recovery Room, ICU, and floor.
Follow patients and write daily progress notes.
Maintain clear communication with the attending surgeon and any consultants regarding patient status both pre and post discharge.
Could potentially lead an independent clinic as the volume grows.
Qualifications
A graduate degree in Physician Assistant studies from an accredited program.
Current California PA license.
DEA License required.
National PA certification.
Life Support Certification
One year of experience as a Physician Assistant (PA-C), preferably in thoracic surgery, general surgery, reconstructive surgery, or other surgical specialty.
Experience as a first assist and/or robotic surgery highly preferred.
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
