Assistant Professors - Pediatric Hospitalist
University of Kansas Medical Center•Wichita, KS
•Onsite
About The Position
This is a unique pediatric hospitalist opportunity that blends community feel and size, robust pediatric resources, and traditional university-based academic opportunities. Our inpatient healthcare team is completed by a pediatric nursing staff, centralized pediatric sedation, pediatric pharmacists, dedicated pediatric respiratory therapists, allied health specialists, social work, nutrition, and child life. Our team is the primary teaching faculty in inpatient and newborn pediatrics for our residents and medical students.
Requirements
- MD, DO or the foreign degree equivalent.
- Hold or be eligible for a Kansas medical license.
- Board eligible or board certified in Pediatrics.
- Completion of a Pediatrics residency.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care for hospitalized infants, children, and adolescents on pediatric hospital floor.
- Provide direct patient care for inpatient newborn patients in both well newborn and level 2 nursery.
- Work in conjunction with pediatric subspecialists, including anesthesia, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, oncology, orthopedics, radiology, and surgery, to provide effective and co-managed inpatient and inpatient newborn care.
- Participate in quality improvement and patient safety activities to improve efficiency and clinical care for patients.
- Participation in daytime, swing, and night shift in-house coverage.
- Equitable participation in holiday, weekend, and call coverage.
- Maintain board certification in pediatrics.
- Educate, supervise, and participate in the evaluation process of residents, medical students, and other allied health trainees in pediatric hospital medicine and newborn care.
- Attend and actively participate in division and departmental meetings.
- Serve on selected departmental and hospital committees as requested by the director.
Benefits
- health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- health expense accounts
- life insurance
- long-term disability insurance
- voluntary insurance plans
- Paid time off
- vacation
- sick leave
- ten paid holidays
- paid discretionary day
- paid time off for bereavement
- paid time off for jury duty
- paid time off for military service
- paid parental leave
- retirement program
- voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
