at University of Illinois at Chicago in Peoria, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Assistant/Associate/Professor-Pediatric Hospitalist
Hiring Department: UICOMP-Pediatrics
Location: Peoria, IL USA
Requisition ID: 1015671
Posting Close Date: 7/13/2023
The University
of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP) is seeking board-certified or
board-eligible pediatricians to fill one full-time positions 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 5/4/2023 at:
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