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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Academic Surgical Pathologist with Thoracic and/or Bone and Soft Tissue Subspecialty [TJU]

PathologyFull-Time

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Job Description

Job Details The Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University is recruiting for board certified, full-time faculty members at the Assistant/Associate Professor level with subspecialty fellowship training or experience in Thoracic/Bone and Soft Tissue pathology, in the Clinical Scholar track or Clinical Educator track, commensurate with training, experience, and academic record.

Job Description The positions will involve clinical sign-out duties in Thoracic/Bone and Soft Tissue subspecialty; additional areas of interest/training, including ENT and GU, are also desirable. The candidate will participate in resident training activities and clinical conferences.

The Department has an ACGME accredited residency program and subspecialty fellowships. Medical licensure in Pennsylvania is required. The Department places an emphasis on scholarship.

The successful candidate will be expected to be a member of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University teaching faculty, and time will be allocated to pursue the intradepartmental and interdepartmental opportunities for independent and/or translational research.

Development of specialized expertise is strongly encouraged. Thomas Jefferson University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. The University undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for underrepresented minorities, women, and disables persons, who are encouraged to apply.

Work Shift Workday Day (United States of America) Worker Sub Type Regular Employee Entity Thomas Jefferson University Primary Location Address 117 S 11th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

For more benefits information, please click here In keeping with Jefferson's Mission, We Improve Lives, it is our goal to recruit, retain, develop and reward highly-qualified employees. If you are enthusiastic, caring and dedicated to service excellence, we invite you to consider joining Jefferson.

Jefferson encourages its employees to expand their knowledge and develop their careers through growth opportunities and continuing education. With a long standing history, Jefferson has been advancing the medical field from the heart of Center City Philadelphia for nearly 200 years.

Our Mission, We Improve Lives, expands to every corner of the organization. From our weekly farmer’s market, to our new Jefferson Accelerator Zone for innovation, our employees’ passion for the community is evident by the daily gestures towards our patients, students and each other.

Key Responsibilities

Perform clinical sign-out duties specializing in Thoracic and Bone and Soft Tissue pathology. Participate in resident training, clinical conferences, and pursue independent or translational research.

Requirements

Requires board certification and subspecialty fellowship training in Thoracic or Bone and Soft Tissue pathology. Must possess a valid medical license in the state of Pennsylvania.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Surgical PathologyThoracic PathologyAcademic Scholarship

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Academic Surgical Pathologist with Thoracic and/or Bone and Soft Tissue Subspecialty [TJU] at Jefferson Health Plans a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 10% in Pathology — ranked against 234 active Pathology listings on WeekdayDoc.

Pathology — Physician Career Context

In Pennsylvania, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$309k (366 salary observations; 2,498 listings), vs ~$294k nationally (13,718 salary observations; 56,708 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.6
Among the best 10% of Pathology listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 234 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Philadelphia

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$204k
Typical market rent
$1,768/mo
Residents’ average commute
32 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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