Oncology Surgeon

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Job Overview

New or replacement position: New position
Specialist needed: Breast, axillary and adnexal cancer surgery and Gastrointestinal cancer surgery
Salary/Compensation Range: To be discussed
Bonus Eligible? If so, what type: Performance based
Role Overview / day to day responsibilities: OP consultation and ward round, MTB, procedures and surgery
Department – what is the size? How many beds?: 30 beds
Team – what is the size?: We expect we will have 4 specialists per team (senior and 1 surgery trainee). These surgeon teams work close with others such as: medical oncology, radiation, imaging …
Describe the working conditions of this position (environment, team culture, leadership style, etc.): Open mind, teamwork, evidence based, calculated risk taker, responsibility and accountability
What are the most desirable aspects of this role? How would you sell it to a candidate?: Become one of the best Oncology centre in Viet Nam by 2024. Accredited as A Cancer Center of Excellence by 2025
Career path or growth opportunities in the future for this role / candidate?: Head of Surgical Oncology Department or Director of Oncology center

Job Requirements

Must have experience, knowledge, or behaviours
- 4-6 years of Residency training program.
- Acquisition of knowledge and practical skills certified by well-known or world-class oncology center(s).
- Consulting diagnostic methods: clinical, cancer imaging techniques, oncology pathology.
- Knowing oncology diseases, breast/ GI/neuro/urology cancer epidemiology and natural history.
- Performing cancer surgery.
- Knowing adjuvant systemic therapies and radiation in cancer.
- Research and evidence based medicine.
Preferred experience, knowledge, or behaviours
- Having least 5 years worked for A Cancer Centre accredited by World Class Institution.
- Performing large annually procedure/surgery volume included conservative surgery, correct poor aesthetic outcome after conservation, mastectomy indications and types, local recurrence after mastectomy, reconstruction …
- Adequate level of lymphadenectomy, and knowledge of lateral nodal dissection. Indications for surgical and nonsurgical options.
- Peri-operative care including knowledge of prehabilitation and fast track protocols. Awareness of special considerations in frail patients and emergency presentations.
- Detailed understanding of indication and benefits and harms of different neoadjuvant schedules (short course RT, chemoradiation, chemotherapy) for more advanced tumours.
- Understanding of the different organ preservation approaches.
- Managing cancer in special groups, benign diseases.
- Experiencing in psychological issues and follow-up care.
- Participating cancer research.
- Ages from 35 – 50 with appropriate practicing license.
Required educational and medical qualifications
- Credentialed as surgeon/surgical consultant with certification in cancer surgery.
- Well-known/World class Certification in Surgery or/and cancer surgery.