Physician - Pediatrics - Critical Care

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

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 - Critical Care Practice Details Sanford Children’s Hospital in Fargo, ND, is seeking BC/BE Pediatric Critical Care Intensivists to join its team of 6 physicians working in the Sanford Children’s Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota. • Level II Pediatric Trauma Center; 500 admits per year • Sanford Medical Center houses a 12 bed PICU, with additional flex beds if needed. Floor shared with 20-24 bed pediatric unit, and 40-bed Level IV NICU. • Rotated schedule with 6 PICU physicians of one service week per month with additional night time calls. • Medical staff includes more than 65 board certified pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists • Supported by AirMed transport services with helicopter and fixed wing covering a three state area. Over 400 pediatric and neonatal transports annually. • Sanford's Children's Hospital is a supporting member of the NACHRI • Sanford's PICU participates in the VPS database. • Sanford's NICU Participates in the Vermont Oxford Network database • Sanford Health Fargo serves a large catchment area of 1.2 million throughout ND, MN and parts of SD and MT • Joint appointment as clinical faculty with Department of Pediatrics at UND School of Medicine and Health Science teaching medical students, family medicine and pediatric residents. Community Description As a thriving city with a small-town feel, Fargo and the adjacent metro area is a diverse, family-oriented community. Surrounded by beautiful landscapes, Fargo balances quality of life and a low cost of living with a safe, picturesque environment. A variety of schools and universities, a vibrant business community and a robust downtown are just a few reasons why people love to call the Fargo area home. Job Description Pediatric Critical Care Core Privileges includes the ability to perform history and physical examination, admit (if applicable to the setting), evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services and critical care management of life-threatening organ system failure from any cause in children, from the term or near-term neonate to the adolescent, as well as support of vital physiological functions. This would include 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.

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 fellowship provides his/her fellowship log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a fellowship 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 Critical Care procedures 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 Pediatric Critical Care procedures in the last 12 months. More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.
Successful completion of a hospital affiliated Pediatric residency program and completion of a Pediatric Critical Care fellowship in accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
Training at residency and fellowship 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/ 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. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)
Privileging documents and related credentialing requirements will supersede this job description in defining minimum qualifications, criteria, and scope of practice, if variation between documents exists.

Responsibilities

ability to perform history and physical examination
admit (if applicable to the setting)
evaluate, diagnose, and provide treatment or consultative services and critical care management of life-threatening organ system failure from any cause in children, from the term or near-term neonate to the adolescent, as well as support of vital physiological functions. This would include 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.