Physician - Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is seeking a Physician for Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This is a clinic-based practice with hospital consults throughout the Children's Hospital (NICU, Peds, PICU) and potential outreach opportunities. The role involves supporting Peds Coordinated Treatment Centers for diagnoses such as Brain Injury, Down Syndrome, Muscular Dystrophy, Neurodevelopmental, Myelodysplasia, and Cerebral Palsy. The physician will have the ability to provide botox procedures with nitrous, propofol, and moderate sedation with ARU staff and anesthesia. The Sanford Health South University Medical Center rehab unit is a 21-bed CARF accredited unit serving adolescents and adults in general rehab and brain injury. Call is expected one in four weekends. The region's only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center is also supported by this role.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
Must be able to demonstrate that they have provided PRM inpatient or consultative services for at least 50 patients in the past 12 months.
OR Applicants in PRM must be able to demonstrate current competence and an adequate volume of experience (100 patients) with acceptable results, reflective of the scope of privileges requested, for the past 24 months based on results of ongoing professional practice evaluation and outcomes.
Evidence of current physical and mental ability to perform privileges requested is required of all applicants for renewal of privileges.
Continuing education related to PRM should be required.
Must have completed an ACGME program in PM&R or an accredited combined or consecutive residency training in both PM&R and pediatrics.
Must then complete an ACGME-approved PRM fellowship training program or complete at least three years of practice experience primarily in PRM.
Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/ subspecialty 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 fellowship training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their fellowship training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement.

Nice To Haves

If the applicant is recently trained, a letter of reference should come from the director of the applicant’s training program. Alternatively, a letter of reference may come from the applicable department chair and/or clinical service chief at the facility where the applicant most recently practiced.
More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Responsibilities

Admit, evaluate, diagnose, and provide consultation and medical therapy to children with congenital and childhood-onset physical impairments.
Address related or secondary medical, physical, functional, psychosocial, and vocational limitations or conditions, with an understanding of the life course of disability.
Provide 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.
Provide botox procedures with nitrous, propofol, mod sedation with ARU staff and anesthesia.