PHYSICIAN - Emergency Medicine - Duluth, MN

Essentia Health•Duluth, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are a regional Emergency Medicine team based in Duluth, MN, seeking new partners to join our team due to upcoming retirements and exciting expansion. Our team strives to provide the highest quality emergency care in a mix of urban and rural environments with a hub-and-spoke care model. You will enjoy variety in your practice by working roughly half of your shifts in Duluth and half of your shifts at a subset of our six regional EDs, with flexible scheduling among teammates. We offer very competitive compensation and benefits. Our team currently includes physicians at all stages of their careers who maintain strong ties within our lakeshore community. We are strongly supported and heard by our leadership, with EM docs at all levels of Essentia’s leadership structure. The goal is to fill this position in 2028. The Duluth ED is a brand new state-of-the-art 40-bed facility with annual volumes of 42K patients/year. It serves a large catchment area with a full complement of collaborative specialists and subspecialists. We offer 8 and 9-hour shifts with double & triple physician coverage and additional APP support 7 days/week. Patients are admitted to St. Mary’s Medical Center, the region’s tertiary referral center with adult and pediatric subspecialties; it is a 330-bed hospital and Level I Adult and Level II Peds Trauma Center. We provide a full spectrum of emergency medicine care, including pediatrics. There is an opportunity to teach, if interested, with FM residents and medical students. We foster a supportive and fun work environment with kind and collaborative consultants. Our nurses are strong with excellent retention and a mixture of experience as well as new energy. We have excellent behavioral health resources, including a psychiatry consult service in the ED, social work, case management, safe rooms, behavioral health techs, and nurses. Regional sites include Aurora, Virginia, Moose Lake, Sandstone, Deer River, and Superior WI, with annual ED volumes of 3.5K-12K patients/year. All regional sites are Level IV trauma centers, and all admit to their own hospitals. Patients with more complex needs are often transferred to Duluth for admission. Scheduling is flexible, with all partners working in Duluth and rurally at a subset of our sites, allowing each physician to find a mix of locations that they find fulfilling. Commute from Duluth ranges from 10 min – 70 min (aside from Deer River). Virginia & Superior have 12-hour physician shifts with 12 hours of APP support. Aurora, Moose Lake, Sandstone, & Deer River have single coverage, 12-hour or optional 24-hour shifts (no requirement to work 24s). Telemedicine support is available for stroke, psychiatry, NICU, hospice, and cardiology.

Requirements

BC/BE Emergency Medicine
Excellent team player – must work well with entire ED team, as well as consultants and patients
Strong commitment to caring for patients both in Duluth and regionally