This is a unique pediatric hospitalist opportunity that blends community feel and size, robust pediatric resources, and traditional university-based academic opportunities. Our inpatient healthcare team is completed by a pediatric nursing staff, centralized pediatric sedation, pediatric pharmacists, dedicated pediatric respiratory therapists, allied health specialists, social work, nutrition, and child life. Our team is the primary teaching faculty in inpatient and newborn pediatrics for our residents and medical students.
As of January 2024, there are 3 open positions.
Resume/CV and cover letter required.
Job Description:
Required Qualifications:
MD/DO Degree
Licensed or eligible for licensure to practice medicine in the state of Kansas
Board eligible or certified in Pediatrics
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience:
Previous experience teaching in an academic setting preferred
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Demonstrated proficiency in the teaching of students and residents
Demonstrated proficiency in clinical practice Proficiency in Spanish
Ability to work cooperatively, collegially, and professionally within a multi?disciplinary team environment
Job Duties:
Patient Care: 90%
Provide direct patient care for hospitalized infants, children, and adolescents on pediatric hospital floor.
Provide direct patient care for inpatient newborn patients in both well newborn and level 2 nursery
Work in conjunction with pediatric subspecialists, including anesthesia, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, oncology, orthopedics, radiology, and surgery, to provide effective and co-managed inpatient and inpatient newborn care.
Participate in quality improvement and patient safety activities to improve efficiency and clinical care for patients.
Equal participation in daytime, swing, and night shift in-house coverage.
Equitable participation in holiday, weekend, and call coverage.
Maintain board certification in pediatrics.
Education/Scholarly: 10%
Educate, supervise, and participate in the evaluation process of residents, medical students, and other allied health trainees in pediatric hospital medicine and newborn care.
Attend and actively participate in division and departmental meetings.
Other Duties (%)
Serve on selected departmental and hospital committees as requested by the director.
Marginal Functions
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. It is only a summary of the typical functions of the job, not an exhaustive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks, duties, and assignments. Furthermore, job duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
If selected as a final candidate for this position, you may be required to complete the Association of American of Universities Representations and Warranties document and sign a release of records that will allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to conduct a further background check with former employers. A copy of the Representations and Warranties document can be found here.
Comprehensive Benefits Package:
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus nine paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
The University of Kansas Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ethnicity, ancestry, age, protected veteran or disability status, marital status, parental status, or genetic information.
About University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita
About the KU School of Medicine-Wichita
At the KU School of Medicine-Wichita, our mission is to educate tomorrow's physicians and health care leaders through community partnership to improve the health of Kansans.
Medical Education
With Kansas in need of more physicians, the KU School of Medicine opened the Wichita Campus in 1971 to provide hands-on clinical training to medical students in their third and fourth years. In 2011, the KU School of Medicine-Wichita expanded to a full, four-year campus, welcoming its first class of first-year medical students. The Wichita Campus expansion is designed to help alleviate Kansas’ physician shortage, which is expected to worsen in the coming years.
5 reasons Kansas needs more doctors:
•Low physician-to-population ratios in 5 of 6 geographic regions
•Aging population needs more care
•More retirement-aged physicians
•Increased demand for care with reform
•Time to get through medical school and residency is 7+ years
While the majority of medical schools are tied to a hospital, the Wichita campus is community-based thanks to more than 1,000 volunteer faculty inside three partner hospitals (Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center, Wesley M...edical Center, and Via Christi Health), as well as in doctors’ offices across the state.
In addition to educating doctors and other health care professionals for Kansas, the KU School of Medicine-Wichita benefits the community and state by:
•Bringing clinical trials to residents
•Improving patient outcomes and lowering costs through research
•Impacting the economy by $80 million by 2015 as the campus expands, according to 2009 studies
•Providing care to those in need
KU School of Medicine continues to lead the nation in medical students choosing to go into family medicine with a three-year average of more than 21 percent. A 2009 study ranks the KU School of Medicine fifth out of 141 medical schools in the nation for its progress in fulfilling its social mission of students who practice primary care; students who work in underserved areas; students who are minorities.
Graduate Medical Education
Once medical students graduate as doctors, they go on to residency training. KU School of Medicine-Wichita sponsors 13 residency and fellowship training programs in partnership with Wesley Medical Center and Via Christi Health.
Master of Public Health
Ranked as the sixth best community health graduate degree in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the Master of Public Health degree program at the University of Kansas has campuses in both Kansas City and Wichita. KU MPH graduates serve in a wide variety of public health fields, including clinical medicine, research, health education, disease surveillance as well as in academic settings.
Patient Care
KU School of Medicine-Wichita faculty and residents provide patient care in a multitude of settings, including: KU Wichita Adult Medicine, KU Wichita Center for Breast Cancer Survivorship, KU Wichita Endocrinology, KU Wichita Gastroenterology, KU Wichita Internal Medicine-Midtown, KU Wichita Pediatrics, and KU Wichita Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.To serve the underserved and uninsured, KU School of Medicine-Wichita students provide care under faculty supervision at the JayDoc Community Clinic every Saturday, serving more than 500 patients a year.ResearchThe Office of Research collaborates with professionals in the community to improve the health of Kansans through research and innovation.