Faculty - Pediatric Critical Care Physician

University of Kansas Medical Center•Wichita, KS

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita is seeking a candidate for a full-time faculty position in Pediatric Critical Care. Candidates will have earned a D.O., M.D., or equivalent and be board certified or board eligible in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. The position offers an exciting opportunity to join over 25 other board-certified medical and surgical pediatric specialties collaborating to care for the children of the state of Kansas. This position will support pediatric patients hospitalized with our community, tertiary care clinical partner, Wesley Children’s Hospital. A successful candidate must have an interest in practicing academic medicine, supporting our graduate medical education programs in Pediatrics, and combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, as well as our medical school campus which supports over 200 medical students. The University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita (KUSM-W) Department of Pediatrics is a robust, comprehensive, and thriving group of dedicated academic clinicians collaborating to deliver pediatric clinical care, education, scholarship and advocacy to the children and families in the Western two-thirds of the state. We are one of three University of Kansas medical school campuses. The Wichita campus serves over 200 medical students and boasts modern academic capabilities including a hi-fidelity simulation center and resources to support clinical and translational research and systematic quality improvement/implementation science. In 2027 we will complete construction of a brand-new, state of the art medical school; The Wichita Biomedical Center will be an interprofessional medical education and research center, integrating health care educational programs across the community. Wesley Children’s Hospital (WCH), a tertiary care pediatric hospital within the main Wesley campus, is the result of a $70 million investment by Health Corporation of America and Wesley Healthcare and offers the only tertiary care children’s services in Central and Western Kansas. WCH has the largest delivery service in Kansas, and includes 76 NICU beds, 35 general inpatient beds, 15 PICU beds, and centralized pediatric sedation. The NICU and PICU are staffed 24/7 in-house by board-certified specialists and pediatric hospital medicine will be in-house 24/7 in the coming academic year. WCH is a level 1 trauma center with a 24/7 pediatric surgery/trauma service. Other available and collaborating pediatric specialties include anesthesia, urology, radiology, endocrinology, cardiology, pulmonology, genetics, infectious disease, and the only comprehensive pediatric oncology program in the state. Dedicated pediatric ancillary services include an independent pediatric pharmacy with rounding clinical pediatric pharmacists and a robust child life program. Wichita, Kansas, located in the heart of America, is the largest city in Kansas. It has small town friendliness along with all the amenities of a large city including a variety of restaurants and entertainment, minor league baseball and hockey teams, great shopping, and proximity to the country. The metropolitan area of more than 640,000 has great public and private schools and is a family friendly city.

Requirements

MD or DO Degree or foreign degree equivalent.
Board eligible or certified in Pediatrics
Board eligible or certified in Pediatric Critical Care

Nice To Haves

Experience teaching in an academic setting
Experience in clinical practice

Responsibilities

Provide direct patient care for pediatric critical care infants, children, and adolescents in PICU.
Work in conjunction with pediatric hospitalists and subspecialists, including anesthesia, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, oncology, orthopedics, radiology, and surgery, to provide effective and co-managed pediatric critical and newborn care.
Participate in quality improvement and patient safety activities to improve efficiency, safety, and clinical outcomes for patients.
Educate, supervise, and participate in the evaluation process of residents, medical students, and other allied health trainees.
Assist with the development of an critical care residency curriculum.
Participate in scholarly activities to the extent that ACGME criteria for “core faculty” are met; these include traditional scholarly products (i.e. publications, poster presentations) as well as invited presentations (i.e. grand rounds, professional or academic society conferences) and significant educations leadership roles (i.e. curriculum development).

Benefits

health, dental, and vision insurance
health expense accounts with generous employer contributions
Employer-paid life insurance
long-term disability insurance
various additional voluntary insurance plans
Paid time off, including vacation and sick
ten paid holidays
One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment
paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment
A retirement program with a generous employer contribution
additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b)