Pediatrics Physician

Start Date: June/July (On-going need)

Licensure: Must have active PA licensure

Required Certifications: PALS,ACLS,BLS,NRP, Active state DEA or transfer a DEA from another state

Minimum Experience:

Board Status: Board Certified or Board Eligible

Credentialing: 30-60 days

Coverage Need:

• 10-15 shifts per month (On-going)
• Full-time position
• Out-patient with limited in-patient

Schedule:

• Mon to Fri (8:30am-4:30pm)
• Weeknight Call Mon-Fri (4:30pm-8am)(1:2 Rotation)
• 24hr weekend call (1:3 Rotation)
• Weekend call mostly by phone (not often coming in at night)

Coverage Setting:

• Out-patient with limited In-patient
• EMR: EPIC
• Two very busy (hospital-owned) establish practice sites
• Level I nursery (230-250 births/year)
• No NICU but just instituted telemedicine for Neonatology on the floors with Children s in Pittsburgh

Job Details:

• Daily rounding for the nursery when on call
• In house rounding: (all patients, both practices) usually 1-2 babies in nursery
• Rarely have in-patient rounding on sick children
• Can split time between two sites (both 20 minutes from hospital)
• Schedule can be discussed and may change from time to time
• Expect to have to go into ER or nursery once a week for an emergency or admission, but it may not happen
• Generally round in hospital in am, then go to clinic
• Can t take call remotely (must be onsite to respond to ED or emergent c-sections within 30 minutes)
• Higher level PEDS transferred
• Takes 5 days per week of clinical hours to get to 36 clinical hours
• Provider will work at alternate site twice a week
• OB s support with circumcisions

Census: 15-18 patients / day

Compensation for this opportunity is highly competitive at $120/hr for clinic and night call, with $1200 for 24/hr weekend call.

If this does not work for you, we also have pediatric locum opportunities in California, Massachusetts and others. For further information please contact John Angel at .