You stand at a career crossroads where academic medicine meets meaningful patient care, and UC Davis Health offers you two distinct pathways to shape your professional future. As an academic medical center that delivers approximately 2,000 babies annually and maintains a Level III NICU, UC Davis Health serves a diverse, high-acuity obstetric population across Northern California. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology seeks board-certified or board-eligible physicians to join University Women's Health (UWH), the department's largest and most dynamic division, with over 16 faculty members who embody the balance between clinical excellence and academic contribution.
Your appointment will be at the Assistant or Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor level, positioning you within the University of California system with access to comprehensive benefits, academic resources, and the stability of a nationally recognized institution. Unlike private practice models where clinical volume drives every decision, or traditional academic settings where research requirements can overshadow patient care, these positions offer structured schedules, defined teaching responsibilities, and the professional satisfaction of training the next generation of physicians while maintaining work-life balance.
The Academic Generalist position places you at the intersection of outpatient and inpatient care, where your days alternate between continuity clinic appointments and daytime hospitalist coverage of both obstetric and gynecologic services. You will work collaboratively with UWH faculty, supervising residents and medical students across clinical settings from Labor and Delivery to the operating room. Your call responsibilities reflect a sustainable model: either two in-house shifts monthly with backup home call, or three in-house shifts without home call. This structure means you can plan personal commitments around predictable schedules, and your weekends off truly remain yours. You will also participate in at-home gynecology call rotation with departmental subspecialties, creating opportunities to collaborate across disciplines while maintaining reasonable on-call demands.
The Academic Hospitalist position offers focused inpatient work with 12 to 13-hour shifts on a schedule you help design. Whether you prefer primarily day shifts, a mix of days and nights, or another arrangement, the number of shifts per month remains negotiable based on your lifestyle needs and financial goals. Your clinical focus centers on the intensity and immediacy of hospital-based obstetric care: managing OB triage, guiding patients through labor and delivery, providing postpartum care, conducting emergency surgeries, and handling initial evaluation and admission of antepartum patients. Between deliveries and surgical cases, you will teach residents and medical students in real-time clinical scenarios, where every patient interaction becomes a teaching moment and every complex case offers learning opportunities for trainees under your supervision.
UC Davis Health serves as the primary academic referral center for a 33-county region spanning Northern California and extending into Northern Nevada. Sacramento, the state capital, anchors this service area with a metropolitan population exceeding 2.4 million residents. The patient population reflects California's remarkable diversity, with significant representation across ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups. Your patients will include routine obstetric care alongside high-risk pregnancies requiring subspecialty consultation, complex gynecologic conditions, and emergency presentations. The Level III NICU designation means you will care for premature infants and complicated deliveries that smaller facilities cannot manage, making your clinical work both challenging and deeply meaningful.
The need for academic obstetrician-gynecologists in this region extends beyond filling a roster position. California faces significant maternal health challenges, with disparities in outcomes across different populations. Your work at UC Davis Health directly addresses these gaps by providing tertiary-level care to underserved communities, training residents who will practice throughout the region, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives that elevate standards of care. Unlike metropolitan markets saturated with private practitioners, or rural areas lacking subspecialty support, this position places you where academic resources, patient volume, and community need converge.
Both positions represent new opportunities rather than replacement searches, reflecting UC Davis Health's commitment to expanding access to women's healthcare and strengthening its academic mission. You will help shape the future direction of these roles, contribute to curriculum development, participate in quality improvement projects, and engage in scholarly activities that align with your interests. The institution values clinical excellence, innovative teaching, patient-centered care, and physicians who thrive in collaborative environments where multidisciplinary teams work together to achieve optimal outcomes.
Whether you envision yourself building continuity relationships with patients across their reproductive years while maintaining hospital-based skills, or you prefer the focused intensity of inpatient obstetric care where you can make immediate impact in critical moments, UC Davis Health offers a professional home where your clinical skills, teaching passion, and commitment to women's health will flourish within a supportive academic community.