Camp Lejeune - Neonatologist

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive medical assessment, examination, consultation, diagnosis, and treatment plans for neonates.
• Provide medical management of neonates to include neonatal resuscitation, conventional ventilation, stabilization and maintenance of Level II care prior to transport, and prescription of medications including controlled substances to treat neonatal medical disorders.
• Determine appropriate procedures and perform procedures including sedation, endotracheal intubation, routine phlebotomy, arterial phlebotomy, percutaneous central venous line placement, umbilical line placement, lumbar puncture, suprapubic bladder taps, bladder catheterization, needle thoracentesis, chet tube placement, and circumcision.
• Attend routine and high-risk deliveries as a member of the Resuscitation Team and perform Neonatal Resuscitation.
• Provide medical care to neonates awaiting transport to other facilities and arriving from other higher level of care NICUs.
• Provide outpatient care for routine appointments / NICU follow-up appointments.
• Provide clinical instruction to students and resident physicians rotating through the nursery.

Qualifications

• BC MD/DO - Must have completed a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy degree from a medical school approved by the Council of Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Hospital Association, or possess permanent certification by the Education Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) or completed a Fifth Pathway Program.
• Completion of accredited residency program in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
• Active, unrestricted license in any of the 50 States or U.S. Territories.
• AHA BLS, NRP, PALS, STABLE.
• 1-YR Clinical Experience within the past two years.