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Aiken, South Carolina

Physician General Surgeon

SurgeryNo callFull-Time

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Job Description

Responsibilities

About Aiken Physicians Alliance

Aiken Physicians Alliance is affiliated with Aiken Regional Medical Centers, a 273-bed acute care facility offering a comprehensive range of specialties and services. Aiken Regional Medical Center has been ranked a top hospital in South Carolina by the Carolina Center for Medical Excellence for its treatment of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia and has been recognized as an “A” rated facility by the Leapfrog Group.

Aiken Physicians Alliance provides dedicated primary and specialty care for you and your family. Our family medicine providers are devoted to treating the whole person and provide comprehensive care for people of all ages. Our specialists are highly trained and experienced and work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide care to patients. Aiken Physicians Alliance offers Primary Care, Cardiology, General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Orthopedics, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology Care. You will work with a Care Team of physicians, advanced practitioners and staff providing compassionate and quality care. We have a welcoming environment and believe in strong team engagement.

Website: aikenphysicians.com

Job Summary Physician's duties include but are not limitied to the following:

Provide professional medical care to Group's patients in accordance with the professional standards of care, quality and practice controls and poliicies as adopted from time to time by Group and as required by law.

Provide call coverage for the Office(s) as scheduled by Group

Provide uncompensated days of emergency department call coverage for the Hospital(s) per month, consistent with the Medical Staff Bylaws and by speciality.

Provide outpatient care in the Offices and inpatient care at the Hospital to patients.

Perform the particular duties assigned by Group from time to time.

Keep and maintain appropriate records, reports, claims and correspondence necessary and appropriate in connection with all professional services Physician renders under employment and as required by Group policies and prodecures in effect from tiem tto time. This includes, but is not limited to, the policy on documentation and timely completion of practice based medical records that is in effect from time to time. All such recrods, reports, claims and correspondence belong to Group.

Promote Group's professional practice to the extent permitted by law and the applicable canons of professional ethics.

Attend to the administrative duties of the Group's professional pratctice to the extend required by Group's policies.

Perform all acts reasonably necessary to maintain and improve Physician's professional skills.

Participate in marketing/public relations of his/her duties such as speaking engagemetns, newspaper interviews, etc. as required by GRoup from time to time.

Benefit Highlights

Challenging and rewarding work environment

Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off

Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans

401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan

SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022.

During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries.

Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. uhs.com

Qualifications

  • Required Knowledge, Skills, Licensure, Training & Travel Requirements (if applicable):
  • Graduate of an accredited medical school
  • Licensed to practice medicine in the State of South Carolina

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates.

UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience.

During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email.

The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting us at: uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient CareMedical DocumentationInterdisciplinary TeamworkClinical PracticeMedical Records Management

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician General Surgeon at UHS a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Surgery — ranked against 988 active Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Surgery — Physician Career Context

Of the 48 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 94% have no call, 77% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 11.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for South Carolina is 93.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.6% of South Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Surgeon Jobs

37 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution37 jobs · 2 employers

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19
$350k

Annual compensation range

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 6.1
Better work-life than 70% of Surgery listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 988 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call

Living in Aiken

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$298k
Typical market rent
$1,387/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
91.9
State income tax
Up to 6.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About UHS

Hospitals and Health Care
Aiken, South Carolina
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive Compensation
Generous Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
401(K) with company match
Discounted stock plan
SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
Career development opportunities