Physician - Pediatrics - Cardiology

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

18h

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 H1B Specialty Pediatrics - Cardiology Practice Details 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. Department currently consists of 4 pediatric cardiologists (one dual boarded in adult congenital) and 1 pediatric nurse practitioner. Call responsibilities include hospital consults and reads but no clinic while on call. TTE and Fetal echocardiograms completed by in clinic board certified congenital sonographers. Regional (State of North Dakota and Western Minnesota) Echocardiograms and ECGs read by cardiologists. Outreach clinic: 8-10 patients scheduled with dedicated board certified congenital sonographers traveling with providers. Specialized pediatric lipid clinic as well as adult congenital heart disease clinics within department. Advanced imaging services available include congenital TEE, chest and coronary CTA, as well as cardiac MRI. Excellent regional services available for interventional and electrophysiology cardiac catheterization as well as cardiovascular thoracic surgery support. Joint appointment as clinical faculty with Department of Pediatrics at UND School of Medicine and Health Science teaching medical students & family medicine residents as well as an upcoming pediatric residency in 2024. 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 Cardiology Core Privileges include the ability to perform history and physical examination, admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide treatment or consultative services to children and adolescents up to the age of 21 presenting with cardiovascular disease and adults with history of congenital heart disease and disorders of the heart and blood vessels. Physician also may provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with Rules and Regulation and hospital policies.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
An applicant who has just completed a fellowship shall provide his/her fellowship log.
An applicant who is not applying directly out of a fellowship shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 24 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications.
The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement of 25 Pediatric Cardiology procedures during the past two years with satisfactory quality data.
If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s clinical-based activity for the past 24 months is required.
The applicant must be able to demonstrate active involvement 25 Pediatric Cardiology procedures during the past two years with satisfactory quality data.
Successful completion of a Pediatric residency program of at least three years’ duration, and completion of a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology of at least 3 years’ duration accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
Certification 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.

Responsibilities

perform history and physical examination
admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide treatment or consultative services to children and adolescents up to the age of 21 presenting with cardiovascular disease and adults with history of congenital heart disease and disorders of the heart and blood vessels.
provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with Rules and Regulation and hospital policies.