Geisinger Cancer Institute – career opportunities
For over a century, Geisinger has created easy access to healthcare for our friends and neighbors in Pennsylvania. Living and working here, you’ll join one of our tight-knit communities and experience a quality of life you can’t get elsewhere
Our Geisinger Cancer Institute, home to the region’s largest teams of board certified cancer specialists, is committed to using world-class technology to take care of our communities. Geisinger is designated by the National Cancer Institute as a National Community Oncology Research Program (NCI-NCORP) and has a robust portfolio of investigator-initiated and industry sponsored clinical trials as well as treatment and prevention studies and cancer care delivery research studies. Geisinger’s cancer program is recognized by ASCO’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, and National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Elsevier’s evidence-based oncology pathways are embedded in the clinical workflow in Hematology/Oncology and Radiation Oncology.
The Geisinger Cancer Institute also provides a supportive environment for our physicians and advanced practitioners to collaborate with medical students and residents.
Hematology/Oncology
Twelve sites with infusion capability located across the system - ideal for delivering cancer care close to home. Geisinger has a bone marrow transplant program that is FACT (Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy) accredited.
Radiation Oncology
Advanced technology is offered at all five sites in the Geisinger system, including IMRT, SBRT, and 4DRT. Our tertiary sites in Danville and Wilkes Barre additionally provide SRS, intracavitary HDR brachytherapy, TBI, intravascular brachytherapy, and permanent brachytherapy implants in both the brain and prostate. The Henry Cancer Center in Wilkes Barre features the CyberKnife S7, a fully robotic radiation device that delivers radiation with exquisite precision. It is the only such device in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Palliative Medicine
Palliative medicine services are embedded in our four hospitals across the system, providing inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine services, including telemedicine.
Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program
Geisinger's Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship Program trains future specialists in providing high quality, high value hematologic and oncologic care while maximizing patients’ and families’ experiences of care. The ACGME-accredited fellowship program provides this training using:
- Integrated health system approach with interdisciplinary care teams
- Exposure to a variety of tumor-specific clinical experiences
- Cancer-specific multidisciplinary clinics
- Clinical research mentorships
- The opportunity to train at multiple sites
- Didactic lectures from physicians across the health system, and guest speakers
- Access to the latest in cancer therapeutics, radiation oncology, and imaging modalities
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
Geisinger’s Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program is an ACGME-accredited program that trains specialists in the expanding field of palliative medicine and hospice care. Training includes:
- High quality patient-centered care and excellence in clinical, academic and research where exceptional palliative care is acceptable, expected and available to all in need
- Communication training in compassionate environment for a diverse seriously ill population
- Integrated health system approach with interdisciplinary groups
- Learning opportunities in multiple settings such as inpatient, ambulatory, home hospice and palliative care, long term care facility and telehealth
- Formal lectures throughout the year from multiple disciplines across the Geisinger system, and outside lecturers
- Opportunity to be an educator to medical and nursing students, residents and learners from different specialities
- Nurturing self care
We take pride in the support we provide our physicians
Learn More about how our innovative and collaborative approach to care gives physicians the tools they need to do what they do best – provide exceptional care.
- Attractive recruitment incentives:
- General Hem/Onc: totaling $200,000
- Malignant Hematology: totaling $250,000
- Stipend available to fellows upon signing
- Full relocation assistance
- Visa sponsorship available: H1B & O1
- 15 paid CME days and $4,500 for CME activities
- Excellent annual compensation and benefits, including PTO, malpractice and tail coverage
- Professional opportunities for mentorship, research, growth and advancement
Our communities are very tightly knit, and we are truly caring for people that we see and interact with in our daily lives. Geisinger offers a unique opportunity to live in a rural setting, but practice specialized medicine at a large teaching institution. I feel so fortunate to be able to be able to focus on my subspecialized interests, caring for patients with non-malignant hematologic disorders and teaching medical trainees, while raising my children in the vibrant, small Pennsylvania town where I grew up!
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