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St. Elizabeth Healthcare
Edgewood, Kentucky

Laborist Fellowship - Physician

OB/GYNFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Job Type: Regular

Scheduled Hours

40

Job Description

Overview

St. Elizabeth offers a PGY4 Fellowship position for Family Medicine Residents. This highly competitive fellowship provides a supplemental year of advanced study of obstetrics and women’s health.

Train in a high-volume, newly expanded labor and delivery unit responsible for more than 4,500 births each year.

Become adept in high-risk obstetrics obstetric procedures, as St. Elizabeth OB Fellows perform more than 100 Caesarean sections each year as primary surgeons.

  • Opportunity to train and perform forceps and vacuum-assisted deliveries.
  • Work daily with on-site perinatologists, gaining experience and competence in perinatal procedures.
  • Work in a Level III NICU, a high-intensity, specialty nursery staffed 24/7 by neonatologists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center – a program ranked among the top three neonatology programs in the country.
  • Train with both Obstetric and Family Medicine faculty.
  • Participate in resident and medical student education.

Gain valuable experience at the award-winning St. Elizabeth Healthcare.

Elizabeth Ft. Thomas, Florence, Edgewood, and Grant have been recognized as a Top Performer on Key Quality MeasuresTM by The Joint Commission.

Women’s Choice “Best Hospital” Awards in the area of Patient Safety, Obstetrics, Heart Care, Orthopedics, and Oncology.

About St. Elizabeth

St. Elizabeth Physicians is a physician led multi-specialty physician group organization consisting of 451 physicians, 244 advanced practice providers and more than 2,200 non-provider associates. We are very proud of our culture around physician wellness and our high physician engagement and satisfaction scores.

St. Elizabeth Physicians serves more than 364,000 patients in our more than 165 conveniently located practices in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. In partnership with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, we are transforming how care is delivered in our region.

We are a mission and values driven organization, focused on patient-centered care, accountability, community, innovation, teamwork and excellence. St. Elizabeth is a regional healthcare provider continually recognized as one of the nation's best. We are also a proud member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

This network provides access to proven protocols, eConsults and unparalleled experience. It supports our mission to ensure our patients receive comprehensive and compassionate care - anywhere. St. Elizabeth Physicians is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values the diversity of our associates.

About St. Elizabeth

St. Elizabeth Physicians is a physician led multi-specialty physician group organization consisting of 517 physicians, 334 advanced practice providers and more than 2,000 non-provider associates. We are very proud of our culture around physician wellness and our high physician engagement and satisfaction scores.

St. Elizabeth Physicians serves more than 409,000 patients in our more than 121 conveniently located practices in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. In partnership with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, we are transforming how care is delivered in our region.

We are a mission and values driven organization, focused on patient-centered care, accountability, community, innovation, teamwork and excellence. St. Elizabeth is a regional healthcare provider continually recognized as one of the nation's best.

Our mission is to ensure our patients receive comprehensive and compassionate care - anywhere.

St. Elizabeth Physicians is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age or any other characteristic that is protected by state or federal law.

Key Responsibilities

Train in advanced obstetrics and women's health, including high-risk obstetric care, cesarean sections, assisted deliveries, and perinatal procedures. Participate in resident and medical student education while working with obstetric and family medicine faculty in a high-volume hospital setting.

Requirements

The fellowship is intended for Family Medicine residents entering a supplemental PGY4 year of advanced study in obstetrics and women's health. The posting does not specify additional qualifications or experience requirements.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Forceps-Assisted DeliveryVacuum-Assisted DeliveryPatient CareResident Education

OB/GYN — Physician Career Context

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Kentucky is 90.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.6% of Kentucky clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Physician by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedPhysician median $364k (middle half $309k–$400k)216 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingKentucky index 90.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physician listings in Kentucky155 active22,600 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedKentucky Physician listings: 38% state a sign-on bonus (median $75k) · 6% offer loan repayment155 active listings, Nov 2026
OB/GYN hiring demand#7 of 28 specialtiespostings stay open a median 42 days · 40% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 308 postings, 192 closed
New OB/GYN listings310 in the last 30 days260 the 30 days before (+19%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Physician pay trend−3.1% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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About St. Elizabeth Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Edgewood, KY
5,001-10,000 employees

Living in Edgewood

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$333k
Median resident rent
$1,073/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.4
State income tax
Up to 4.5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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