Physician - Child Abuse Pediatrics

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. Visas Accepted N/A Specialty Pediatrics - Child Abuse & Neglect Practice Details Sanford Health is currently seeking a BC/BE Child Abuse Pediatrician to join the region's largest team of board certified, fellowship-trained pediatricians and pediatric specialists. This position is at the Sanford Health Child Abuse Referral and Evaluation Clinic located in Fargo, ND. Sanford's team: • Physician specialty trained in child abuse pediatrics • Nurse Practitioners • Our team also works with a multidiciplinary team including social workers, peds ortho, trauma team, behavioral health, radiology and primary care providers. • In house 24/7 pediatric hospitalist coverage • Sanford Medical Center houses a 12 bed PICU, with additional flex beds if needed. Floor shared with 24 bed pediatric unit, and 40-bed Level III NICU with 27 outpatient pediatric medical subspecialty providers covering all specialties CARE Services: • Medical evaluation of children with physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect concerns • Forensic medical evaluation for child abuse • Evaluations involving child pornography • Hospital consultation Community Description ABOUT SANFORD HEALTH IN FARGO • Three Sanford Health Medical Center campuses in Fargo/Moorhead area • State-of-the-art one-million-square-foot medical center opened in 2017, with 302 beds • Level I Adult Trauma Center supported by AirMed services covering a three-state area FARGO COMMUNITY The Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo metro area is a diverse, family-oriented community of 216,000 people that offers high quality of life and low cost of living. Outstanding schools, a vibrant business community, a thriving downtown district, cultural activities, and a wide variety of sports and recreation are just a few of the many reasons people love to call the Fargo area home. Job Description Pediatric Core Privilege include the ability to admit (if applicable to setting), evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to patients from birth to young adulthood (21 years of age) concerning their physical, emotional, and social health as well as treating acute and chronic disease, including major complicated illnesses. Core privileges may also include providing care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies. In addition, applicants may assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree
Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested: An applicant who has just completed a residency provides his/her residency log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from the hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate at least 50 pediatric patients in the last 12 months. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s clinical setting activity for the last 12 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate at least 50 pediatrc patients in the clinical practice in the last 12 months. More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.
Successful completion of a hospital affiliated residency Pediatric program accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. Training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above, may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing Policy.
Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/sub-specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)

Responsibilities

Medical evaluation of children with physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect concerns
Forensic medical evaluation for child abuse
Evaluations involving child pornography
Hospital consultation
admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to patients from birth to young adulthood (21 years of age) concerning their physical, emotional, and social health as well as treating acute and chronic disease, including major complicated illnesses
providing care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies
assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services