Medical Oncology Physician Associate

This 32-hour-per-week opportunity offers the chance to build meaningful relationships with patients and families while working alongside a multidisciplinary team committed to delivering exceptional, compassionate cancer care close to home.

As an Advanced Practice Provider within Medical Oncology, you will play an integral role in the evaluation, treatment and ongoing management of patients throughout their cancer journey. Working collaboratively with our medical oncologists and the broader cancer care team, you will have the opportunity to practice with a high level of clinical involvement while providing the personalized care and continuity that are so important to oncology patients.

Your Role

Responsibilities

Our APPs are valued members of the oncology care team and actively participate in developing and carrying out individualized plans of care. Responsibilities include:

• Obtaining comprehensive histories and performing physical examinations
• Evaluating new and established oncology patients
• Ordering and interpreting appropriate laboratory testing, diagnostic studies and imaging
• Assessing treatment response, symptoms and potential treatment-related toxicities
• Developing diagnoses and clinical assessments in collaboration with the oncology team
• Prescribing pharmacologic and other therapeutic interventions within scope of practice
• Providing patient and family education throughout treatment and survivorship
• Coordinating care with physicians, nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary cancer care team
• Supporting continuity of care through thoughtful, personalized and compassionate patient visits
  
  

Beyond clinical expertise, our APPs are instrumental in helping patients navigate what can be one of the most challenging periods of their lives. We are looking for a provider who values collaboration, communication and the opportunity to develop lasting relationships with patients and their families.

Why MaineGeneral?

At MaineGeneral, you'll join a health system that combines the resources and clinical expertise of a regional medical center with the relationships and sense of community that make practicing medicine in Maine unique.

This Opportunity Offers

• A 32-hour workweek
• Generous Earned Time Off
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) Support
• Educational Loan Repayment
• Retention Bonus
• A strong team of physicians, APPs, nurses and oncology professionals
• The opportunity to live and work in Maine, with access to lakes, mountains, the coast and year-round outdoor recreation
  
  

If you're looking for an oncology practice where APPs are respected clinical partners and where exceptional medicine and compassionate care go hand in hand, we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

Join MaineGeneral and help us continue providing exceptional cancer care to the communities of central Maine.