The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP) is seeking board-certified or board-eligible pediatricians in the Department of Pediatrics’ Hospitalist Division.

Join our dynamic and collegial team where the position includes exclusively academic teams for inpatient pediatric care on our general and intermediate level units, newborn nursery, and the pediatric sedation team. Our team is committed to providing evidence based patient and family centered care while teaching medical students, pediatric (https://peoria.medicine.uic.edu/departments/pediatrics/residency/), medicine-pediatric, emergency medicine and family medicine residents, and now our new Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Fellows following implementation of our newly accredited PHM Fellowship.  Academic time is protected and allows focus on teaching, curricular development, quality improvement, safety initiatives, mentorship, simulation based education and innovation.  We collaborate with our medical and surgical subspecialties and serve as the primary admitting service for most medical specialties while providing consulting and co-management roles for our surgical colleagues. 

Clinical activities of the faculty are primarily concentrated at CHOI, which is the primary pediatric teaching facility for UICOMP and is a 132-bed facility that offers over 50 pediatric programs and services.  These programs represent over 100 pediatric sub-specialists in 24 different disciplines, including the largest pediatric surgery program in Illinois.  CHOI is the only full service tertiary hospital for children in downstate Illinois with a children and adult congenital heart disease program, Illinois Perinatal Center, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and is designated as a Level I trauma center. We collaborate routinely with Jump Simulation for education, teaching, research and innovation, https://www.jumpsimulation.org.

Position Summary
Provide academic inpatient hospitalist services for patients at UICOMP's main clinical partner, OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois, a 132-bed, full-service hospital. Participate in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs of the Department.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide academic inpatient hospitalist services for patients at UICOMP’s main clinical partner, OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois, a 132-bed, full-service hospital.
• Participate in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs of the Department.
• Organize and conduct research or scholarly programs in pediatric hospital medicine.
• Perform other duties of a University faculty member including committee assignments, curriculum development, student counseling, and administration.

Minimum Qualifications

• MD/DO degree.
• Eligible for licensure in Illinois.
• Board certified in Pediatrics.
• 3 years pediatric residency.

For fullest consideration, please submit your application by 11/3/2023 at: 

 https://uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/2359?c=uic

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