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Posted: 19-Nov-23
Location: Austin, Texas
Type: Full Time
Specialty:
Internal Number: 2023-260422
- Specialty: Pediatrics
- Subspecialty Interest: Pediatric Hospitalist
- Schedule: 154 clinical shifts per year
- Call Schedule: 40 overnights in a year
- Practice Detail: 31 Pediatric Hospitalists, 2 APPs
- EMR System: Cerner/Compass
- Facility: Dell Children's Medical Center, Dell Children's Medical Center - North Campus
- Location: Austin, Texas & Cedar Park, Texas
The Pediatric Hospitalist Team at Dell Children’s Medical Center and the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School (DMS) Department of Pediatrics are recruiting for Pediatric Hospitalists. This is a great opportunity to join an outstanding group of experienced physicians providing excellent care to hospitalized infants, children and adolescents.
Position Highlights
Pediatric Hospitalists at Dell Children’s are dedicated clinicians and educators, practicing state of the art, evidence-based medicine in robust clinical settings of acute care hospital medicine, subspecialty care, complex care, surgical co-management, and mental health. Our institution’s growing programs and clinical service lines provide ample opportunities for Pediatric Hospitalists to serve the patients and families in our community and region. We have a 4th bed tower that opened Nov 2022 and a North Austin campus that opened April 2023. We provide 24/7 in house coverage.
Pediatric Hospitalists are UT Dell Medical School faculty and embrace their role as leaders in medical education through their work with students, residents and pediatric hospitalist medicine fellows. Ideal candidates should seek to further their faculty development in the areas of quality improvement, value-based care, medical education, and research through institutional, regional and national opportunities.
About Dell Children’s Medical Center
Dell Children’s Medical Center (DCMC) is a 248-bed, Pediatric Level I Trauma Center, the only dedicated freestanding pediatric facility in our region. DCMC also has a Level IV Epilepsy Center, Level IV NICU, Special Delivery Unit, Texas Center for Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease, and Inpatient Psychiatry Mental Health Unit. We serve a 46-county area as the premier comprehensive health care provider for children and adolescents. DCMC is in the Ascension Healthcare Network, the nation's largest non-profit health system.
DCMC’s mission is to be a center of excellence for children’s health with a strong alliance of expert personnel, facilities and other specialty resources. Ascension partners with Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. The school is committed to redesigning academic medicine and revolutionizing how people get and stay healthy, by educating leaders, developing new models of care, advancing innovation from health products to health care delivery, and partnering closely with community and regional stakeholders to serve the community’s underserved population. The Ascension Healthcare Network and DMS share a common vision of transforming healthcare through a focus on quality and value. Through the power of this partnership, providers share a leading role in building the future of healthcare for Central Texas and beyond. Ascension Seton operates the primary teaching hospitals where DMS undergraduate and graduate students train.
About Austin
Austin has been designated by US News & World Report as one of the top ten “Best Places to Live” for several years, boasting phenomenal outdoor recreation, a foodie destination, 230 days of sunshine and is considered “the live music capital of the world.” This metropolis is also a high-tech growth hub and is home to one of the largest state universities in the country. It is also known as one of the healthiest/physically fit cities in America. The many parks and lakes offer a multitude of outdoor activities, including swimming, hiking, paddle boarding and fishing.
We are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion, equity, and diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, culture, beliefs, sexual orientation, genetics, disability, age or veteran status.
Successful candidate qualifications include: MD or DO, Board Eligible/Certified in Pediatrics, preferred but not required Board Eligible/Certified in PHM, able to receive a medical license in the state of Texas and demonstrated experience in pediatric hospital medicine and academics. Nocturnists and Gap Year Applicants are welcome to apply as well.