Physician - Pediatrics - Critical Care

Sanford Health•Bismarck, ND

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Sanford Children’s Hospital in Bismarck, ND, is seeking a BC/BE Pediatric Critical Care Intensivist to join its team. A minimum of one year of experience is preferred. The facility is a Level II Adult Trauma Center. Sanford Children’s Hospital Medical Center houses a pediatric unit with all monitored beds, shared with a 16-bed pediatric unit and a 26-bed Level II NICU, seeing roughly 300 admissions to Intermediate and PICU levels of care. The team is supported by AirMed transport services with helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft covering a three-state area. Sanford's Children's Hospital is a supporting member of NACHRI, and its PICU participates in the VPS database, while the NICU participates in the Vermont Oxford Network.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
Successful completion of a hospital-affiliated Pediatric residency program.
Completion of a Pediatric Critical Care fellowship accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
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.
Applicants not board certified at the time of application but who have completed fellowship training within the last five years must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their fellowship training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement.
Demonstrate at least 50 Pediatric Critical Care procedures in the last 12 months (either via fellowship log or quality profile from current privileges).

Nice To Haves

A minimum of one year of experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform history and physical examination.
Admit (if applicable to the setting), evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services.
Provide critical care management of life-threatening organ system failure from any cause in children, from the term or near-term neonate to the adolescent.
Support of vital physiological functions, including but not limited to: shock, coma, elevated intracranial pressure, seizures, infections, acute and chronic renal failure, acute endocrine electrolyte emergencies (including diabetic ketoacidosis), sepsis, heart failure, trauma, acute and chronic respiratory failure, drug overdoses, massive bleeding, central nervous system dysfunction (including cerebral resuscitation), and kidney failure.