Physician - Pediatrics - Oncology

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

About The Position

Sanford Health’s Roger Maris Cancer Center and Sanford Children’s Hospital is seeking a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist to join the region’s largest team of board-certified, fellowship-trained pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The department includes five hematologist/oncologists and three advanced practice providers, as well as a dedicated program social worker, psychologist, and child life specialists. The program is a full member of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG), includes the state’s only federally funded Hemophilia Treatment Center, and offers a nurse-administered nitrous oxide program. Multidisciplinary clinics include Long Term Follow Up/Survivorship, Hemophilia/Bleeding Disorders, Sickle Cell, and Immunohematology CTC clinics. The department has an academic affiliation with the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences and its Pediatric Residency Program. Core privileges include performing history and physical examinations; admitting patients when applicable to the setting; evaluating, diagnosing, and providing treatment or consultative services to children, adolescents, and young adults with illnesses and disorders of the blood, bleeding and clotting, and immune system; and staging and classifying tumors and applying multimodal therapy. The role also encompasses the epidemiology and etiology of childhood cancer. The position is based in the Fargo area, a diverse, family-oriented community with a small-town feel, schools and universities, a vibrant business community, and a robust downtown. Sanford Health describes the area as offering a low cost of living and a safe, picturesque environment.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree.
Successful completion of a hospital-affiliated Pediatric residency program.
Completion of a Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellowship accredited by the ACGME, AOA, or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Training at other residency or fellowship programs may be considered through the credentialing policy’s waiver of eligibility process.
Certification in the primary area of practice by the applicable ABMS, AOA, or Royal College specialty/subspecialty board. Applicants who completed fellowship within the last five years but are not board certified at application may be eligible, but must achieve certification within five years of fellowship completion unless the governing board waives the requirement.
Applicants who have just completed fellowship must provide their fellowship log.
Applicants not applying directly out of fellowship must provide a hospital quality profile covering clinical activity during the last 12 months, including procedure numbers and morbidity, mortality, infection, and other complication rates, and demonstrate active inpatient involvement with at least 50 patients during that period.
If a hospital quality profile is unavailable, applicants must document clinic activity during the last 12 months and demonstrate active involvement in the care of 50 patients in clinical practice during that period.
More education and experience may be required as the practice becomes more advanced.

Responsibilities

Perform history and physical examinations.
Admit patients when applicable to the practice setting.
Evaluate and diagnose children, adolescents, and young adults with illnesses and disorders of the blood, bleeding and clotting, and immune system.
Provide treatment or consultative services for patients with blood, bleeding and clotting, and immune system disorders.
Stage and classify tumors and apply multimodal therapy.
Address the epidemiology and etiology of childhood cancer.