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AGH General Surgery Residency Program

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Stipends and Benefits

  • Competitive salary

  • Professional liability insurance at the level required by Pennsylvania law

  • Annual paid vacation of three weeks and six days holiday vacation

  • Educational grants to categorical house staff, second level and above, for travel or scholarly materials in compliance with institutional policy

  • Office space with computers for seniors and Chiefs

  • Office with 5 computers, laptop, digital camera, printers

  • Full ancillary services

  • Transport

  • 24 hour phlebotomy IV team, EKG, Radiology

  • Library services 24 hour access
    • Expert literature searches
    • Document delivery
    • 12 computers
    • Information literacy education

  • Physician dining room for lunch
    • All you can eat
    • Separate from patients and families

  • Audiovisual Services, communications

  • Pharmacy
    • Drug Information Center

  • Special funding for local, national and international academic paper or poster presentation

  • Secure covered parking adjacent to hospital

  • Meal subsidy (determined by Hospital policy)

  • Sleeping quarters for house staff required to be physically present overnight in the Hospital

  • Text subsidy ($250/year - preliminary  $350/year categorical)

  • Flexible benefits that enable each employee to choose levels of coverage that best fit his or her situation

  • Healthcare insurance - contributory plans

  • Dental insurance - contributory plans

  • Life insurance at no cost

  • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance - available for purchase

  • Long-term disability insurance - at no cost

  • Short-term disability insurance - available for purchase

  • Flexible spending accounts for health care or day care

  • Retirement plan funded by the Hospital

  • Employee Assistance Program providing professional evaluation, referral, and follow-up counseling for personal problems

  • Voluntary payroll deductions toward a tax-sheltered annuity

  • Credit Union

  • On-site day care center

  • Direct deposit of paychecks

  • Payroll savings plan that allows payroll deductions toward purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds

  • Employee health service

  • On-site pharmacy offering discount pricing

  • Information about local housing

  • Hospital payment of training license fees as required by the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine

  • Two lab coats each year at no cost

  • BCLS and ACLS certification courses at no cost

  • Free membership to in-house fitness center
    • Weight lifting
    • Kickboxing
    • Tai Chi
    • Yoga




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