Department:

SOM Wichita Pediatrics

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Pediatrics

Position Title:

Division Director of Pediatric Hospital Medicine Physician

Job Family Group:

Academic

Job Description Summary:

The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of MedicineWichita is seeking a candidate for a full-time faculty position in Pediatric Hospital Medicine. This position will serve as Division Director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine service line including administrative supervisory and mentoring responsibilities. Candidates will have earned a D.O. M.D. or equivalent be board certified in Pediatrics. The position offers an exciting opportunity to join over 25 other board-certified medical and surgical pediatric specialties collaborating to care for the children of the state of Kansas. This position will support pediatric patients hospitalized with our community tertiary care clinical partner Wesley Childrens Hospital. A successful candidate must have an interest in practicing academic medicine supporting our graduate medical education programs in Pediatrics and combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics as well as our medical school campus which supports over 200 medical students.

The University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita (KUSM-W) Department of Pediatrics is a robust comprehensive and thriving group of dedicated academic clinicians collaborating to deliver pediatric clinical care education scholarship and advocacy to the children and families in the Western two-thirds of the state. We are one of three University of Kansas medical school campuses. The Wichita campus serves over 200 medical students and boasts modern academic capabilities including a hi-fidelity simulation center and resources to support clinical and translational research and systematic quality improvement/implementation science. In 2027 we will complete construction of a brand-new state of the art medical school; The Wichita Biomedical Center will be an interprofessional medical education and research center integrating health care educational programs across the community.

Wesley Childrens Hospital (WCH) a tertiary care pediatric hospital within the main Wesley campus is the result of a $70 million investment by Health Corporation of American and Wesley Healthcare and offers the only tertiary care childrens services in Central and Western Kansas. WCH has the largest delivery service in Kansas and includes 76 NICU beds 35 general inpatient beds 15 PICU beds and centralized pediatric sedation. The NICU and PICU are staffed 24/7 in-house by board-certified specialists and pediatric hospital medicine will be in-house 24/7 in the coming academic year. WCH is a level 1 trauma center with a 24/7 pediatric surgery/trauma service. Other available and collaborating pediatric specialties include anesthesia urology radiology endocrinology cardiology pulmonology genetics infectious disease and the only comprehensive pediatric oncology program in the state. Dedicated pediatric ancillary services include an independent pediatric pharmacy with rounding clinical pediatric pharmacists and a robust child life program.

Wichita Kansas located in the heart of America is the largest city in Kansas. It has small town friendliness along with all the amenities of a large city including a variety of restaurants and entertainment minor league baseball and hockey teams great shopping and proximity to the country. The metropolitan area of more than 640000 has great public and private schools and is a family friendly city. Aerospace engineering and health care are Wichitas two largest industries.

Job Description:

Job Duties:

Division Director Administration 20%

• Serve as liaison between Division faculty and Chairman Department of Pediatrics and other Departments and/or school leadership in domains relevant to faculty appointment.
• Establish Division education programs that meet the needs of the distinct groups of learners as appropriate and directed by the university department residency program and/or medical student clerkship.
• Effectively and efficiently participate in the evaluation process of learners to department and school standards where applicable.
• Create an environment to foster scholarly activities in the Division including research and quality improvement.
• In cooperation with the Department Chair and relevant community partner administrators create one and three-year goals for the division in relevant domains of teaching scholarship and faculty development.
• Oversee allocation of time and responsibilities of section faculty and staff with respect to achievement of section clinical teaching research and administrative goals.
• Actively participate in the process of timely and meaningful evaluations of faculty members of section. Evaluation should include all active domains of activity for the faculty member but at a minimum must include clinical care teaching effectiveness scholarly activity or service and professionalism.
• Maintain cognizance of personnel issues among supporting staff and utilize the resources of KUMC-W Medical Practice Association and/or community partners (i.e. Wesley Medical Center) as appropriate to resolve personnel issues and conflict.
• Coordinate and evaluate quality assessment improvement and safety of Section activities.
• Identify a purpose statement for the section and together with the medical director maintain an updated scope of clinical practice for section.
• Identify and act upon areas within the section where clinical improvement is warranted.
• Collaborate with medical director to integrate standard of care changes.
• Identify and pursue areas for integrated care within the division department university community and region.
• Facilitate solicitation and review patient/family/team survey results and/or feedback and identify/address opportunities for improvement.
• Utilize metrics for evaluating section and individual faculty performance and success in meeting clinical expectations.
• Act as sponsoring physician for division nurse practitioners.
• Collaborate with the medical director to provide section education programs that meet the needs of the following groups of learners as appropriate and directed by the university department division residency program and/or medical student clerkship: medical students residents medical practitioners (continuing medical education programs) and allied health professionals (both internally and externally).
• Utilize metrics for evaluating individual faculty performance and success in meeting educational expectations.
• Promote participation of faculty as teachers in the educational activities of the section division department and university.
• Monitor foster and help guide career development of each faculty member in the section.
• Collaborate with the associate chair for faculty development and department chair as needed to assure that section faculty have appropriate access to professional development resources.

Patient Care 70%

• Provide direct patient care for pediatric critical care infants children and adolescents in PICU.
• Work in conjunction with pediatric hospitalists and subspecialists including anesthesia cardiology endocrinology gastroenterology infectious disease neurology nephrology oncology orthopedics radiology and surgery to provide effective and co-managed pediatric critical and newborn care.
• Participate in quality improvement and patient safety activities to improve efficiency safety and clinical outcomes for patients.

Teaching and other Scholarly Activities 10%

• Educate supervise and participate in the evaluation process of residents medical students and other allied health trainees.
• Assist with the development of an critical care residency curriculum.

• Participate in scholarly activities to the extent that ACGME criteria for core faculty are met; these include traditional scholarly products (i.e. publications poster presentations) as well as invited presentations (i.e. grand rounds professional or academic society conferences) and significant educations leadership roles (i.e. curriculum development).

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.

Work Environment:

• Equitable participation in holiday weekend and call coverage for pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) division.
• Shift schedule will follow the PHM division criteria for all PHM physicians at the supporting hospital.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• MD or DO Degree

• Board certified in Pediatrics

Work Experience: Previous experience teaching in an academic setting

Preferred Qualifications:

Education: Board eligible or certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Skills:

• Demonstrated proficiency in clinical practice
• Demonstrated proficiency in teaching of students and residents
• Work cooperatively collegially and professionally within a multidisciplinary team environment

Required Documents:

• Resume/CV
• Cover Letter

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 ten 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. Type: Regular

Time Type:

Full time