Faculty - Pediatric Hospital Medicine Physician

Patient Care

• 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.
• Maintain board certification in pediatrics.

Education/Scholarly

• 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.
• Serve on selected departmental and hospital committees as requested by the director.

Required Qualifications

• MD or DO Degree or foreign degree equivalent.
• Board eligible or certified in Pediatrics.
• Licensed or eligible for licensure to practice medicine in the state of Kansas.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.