(Associate Medical Examiner)
Recruitment #240110-4661RQ-001
Location |
Farmington, CT
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Date Opened | 1/12/2024 12:00:00 PM |
Salary | *SEE INTRODUCTION FOR SALARY INFORMATION |
Job Type | Open to the Public |
Close Date | 4/1/2024 11:59:00 PM |
The State of Connecticut, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) is seeking to add two (2) Associate Medical Examiners (Principal Physician), in our Statewide Medical Examiner Death Investigation System. These positions are 40 hours per week, with rotating weekends, holidays and on-call.
We are interested in all applicants from junior level to senior level - and are pleased to offer an annual salary range from minimum $303,750 ($235,750 plus $68,000 other compensation) to $375, 601 ($307,601 plus $68,000 other compensation), commensurate with experience. The additional $68,000 compensation is comprised of an annual $8,000 bonus for maintaining board certification in anatomic and forensic pathology and $60,000 for rotating weekends (one per month), holidays (3 per year) and on-call (3 days per month). An additional $30,000 sign-on bonus is available, and the office is a federally qualified site for student loan repayment. Comprehensive health benefits, reduced group life insurance premiums and other tax deferred compensation plans are available. A competitive pension and retiree healthcare plan are standard benefits with vesting. State of Connecticut is an eligible Public Service Loan Forgiveness employer, meaning you may be eligible to have qualifying student loans forgiven after 10 years of service. Click here for more information.
ABOUT US:
Our free-standing facility is centrally located in historic Farmington, Connecticut on the campus of The University of Connecticut Health Center and Medical School. The office is a single state-wide medical examiner system performing about 2,800 autopsies per year. The CT OCME is a NAME Accredited office with an allotment for eleven (11) full-time Medical Examiner positions. Our Forensic Pathology Fellowship training program has two (2) positions. The office has regular support from six (6) per diem forensic pathologists. With full staffing, each pathologist will perform <250 autopsies a year. The collegial Medical Examiner staff range in experience from 2+ to 25+ years, resulting in a very educational and supportive environment for death investigations and professional development. Full-time medicolegal death investigators (most are ABMDI certified) work 24/7 to investigate reported deaths and attend scenes. Additional support includes excellent forensic technicians, professional full-time autopsy photographers, and thorough and attentive medical records staff and laboratory assistants. The office receives significant support for operations through our in-house business office, dedicated human resources professional, and IT analysts. The supportive environment allows for maintenance of the 90% requirement for turnaround time for case completion. Additionally, the Medical Examiners have electronic access to most of the hospital medical records systems, allowing for easy access to pertinent records and aid in case investigations. The CT OCME has an ACGME accredited Forensic Pathology Fellowship Program-training two (2) fellows each academic year. Other opportunities for teaching are frequent with pathology residents from Yale, Hartford, and Danbury Hospitals rotating through the office in addition to Pathologists' Assistant students from Quinnipiac University. Histology is done in-house, while toxicology is outsourced to a national forensic toxicology laboratory with an average turn-around-time of 20 days. A board-certified, in-house, forensic anthropologist is on staff and the medical examiners have access to consultants in pediatric pathology, neuropathology, cardiac pathology, radiology, and odontology. Reports are dictated to an outsourced dictation company with <24 hour turnaround time. A remotely-available electronic case management system contains all case related information, including all images, radiology, and reports, and has search and management functions for a complete archive of cases and full accessibility. Opportunities for research are available within the agency and through partnerships with hospital pathology departments and other state agencies. The regular schedule offers intermittent opportunity for telework (up to 3 or 4 times a month). Rotating weekend duty is once monthly. On-call duty, taken from home, is 3 to 4 times a month. Additional compensation is paid for weekends, holidays, and on-call. Attendance at an annual forensic meeting is fully covered by the office, as are other CME opportunities, allowing for satisfactory annual MOC through the American Board of Pathology. Medical licensure is reimbursed annually by the office.
THE ROLE: The individuals in these roles will be responsible for the following duties:
Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain a license to practice medicine and surgery as issued by the Connecticut Department of Public Health in accordance with the applicable Connecticut General Statutes. A temporary license may be granted for a period not to exceed one (1) year. In addition to the checking of references and facts stated in the application, a thorough background investigation will be completed before the candidate is certified for appointment.
PLEASE NOTE: Physicians (M.D./D.O.) must have completed a pathology residency, be board certified in Anatomic Pathology or AP/CP AND be board certified or board eligible (minimum) in Forensic Pathology at the time of application. CT Medical Licensure is NOT required at the time of application. However, the selected candidate must possess and maintain a CT medical license by the time of matriculation.
In order to comply with Public Act 21-69, the State of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process. Applicants invited to interview may be required to submit additional documentation, which supports their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a resume, performance reviews, supervisory references, college transcripts, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.
This posting may require completion of additional referral questions (RQs). You can access these RQs via an email that will be sent to you after the posting's closing date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). Your responses to these RQs must be submitted by the question's expiration date. Please regularly check your email and JobAps Personal Status Board for notifications. Please check your SPAM and/or Junk folders on a daily basis in the event an email provider places auto-notification emails in a user's spam.
Although applicants will receive correspondence via email, as a backup they are also encouraged to sign onto their Personal Status Board daily to monitor their status, view all emailed notices and complete tasks required in the recruitment process.
Should you have questions pertaining to any phase of this recruitment, please contact the hiring agency's human resources office: jsanz@ocme.org, 860-679-3982.
NOTE: The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.
All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period. It is the candidate’s obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception. Requests should be made to jsanz@ocme.org.
In a state agency this class is accountable for providing clinical administrative and/or supervisory functions and/or direct care medical services as a board certified physician.
In the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner this class is accountable for performing autopsies and conducting investigations of sudden and medically unattended deaths.
Incumbents in this class must possess and retain certification in the field of internal medicine, family medicine, or related specialty, from an appropriate medical specialty board.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER: Incumbents in this class must be certified in anatomic pathology by the American Board of Pathology and board eligible in forensic pathology.
AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.