OB Hospitalist/Laborist

Position at a glance: OB Hospitalist/Laborist | Austin, MN | BC/BE OB/GYN | Seven 24-hour shifts per month (full-time)
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Mayo Clinic Health System is a non-profit group of clinics, hospitals, and health care facilities that provide primary and specialty care close to home. Across all locations, you will find life-changing career opportunities in a health system that is consistently recognized among the best in the nation.  

Our medical center in Austin, MN, is seeking BC/BE OB/GYN physicians to join our practice as OB Hospitalists. The practice is currently comprised of full-time generalist OBGYNs, certified nurse midwives, as well as Family medicine physicians who deliver obstetric care for low-risk patients and one nurse practitioner in clinic. The Austin birthing center is a Level I Maternity Care center with annual deliveries ranging around 600-700 per year in a state-of-the-art facility that is consistently ranked as high performing maternity care in US News and World Reports.  The birthing center gestational age threshold is above 35 weeks, with the ability to transfer high-risk and preterm deliveries <35 weeks to Mayo Clinic Rochester, 45 minutes away. The Maternal Fetal Medicine team is available for consultation 24/7 by phone or through the TeleOb service.  All of Mayo Clinic utilizes EPIC EMR.

The birthing center is equipped with Labor and Delivery and Postpartum rooms and an ensuite operating room for urgent or emergent cesarean deliveries.

Mayo Clinic Health System holds professionalism and mutual respect in high regard. Within a health care system, consultations are also readily available from other specialties, such as general surgery. You would provide care for both obstetrical patients and gynecologic patients needing emergency gynecologic care.  Additional subspecialty services are available from Mayo Rochester in MFM, gynecologic oncology, urogynecology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

Learners, including medical students, PAs, NPs, CNMs, and OBGYN residents, may rotate through the department on an as-needed basis and depend on availability.

Schedule: A full-time OB Hospitalist works seven (7) 24-hour shifts per month.

Patient demand remains high despite national birth trends. In Austin, MN, you will deliver high-quality, award-winning care to an underserved community as part of a leading organization that offers equitable compensation and excellent benefits.

Board- Eligible/Board Certified (BE/BC) in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Minnesota medical licensure required.