Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is seeking a faculty level physician for our Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine to provide safe and effective patient care.  This person will actively participate in the training and education of residents, fellows and other trainees and make significant contributions to clinical service.  This person will demonstrate a commitment to clinical scholarship through participation in clinical research and publication and will contribute to the service/administrative activities of the Department/Division.

Responsibilities

To provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care commensurate with the level of advancement and clinical specialty.  Make significant contributions to clinical service as evidenced expertise in clinical care.  Develop and maintain local and regional recognition by peers and patients as an authority in the field.  Develop a wide local and regional referral base for subspecialist.  Develop clinical skills or programs that are local or regionally distinctive.  Applies clinical skills that are clinically sound, effective and achieve exceptional patient outcomes.  Provides consultative services to other physicians and clinical providers within the medical center to establish a coordinated care plan for each patient.  Integrates innovative approaches to patient care.  Serve in a role in establishing the clinical direction of the specific clinical field.  Develop a local/regional referral base.  Provide disease specific expert consultation relative to the area of specialty.  Make decisions regarding patient care, including initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment, and discontinuation of care.  Monitor appropriateness of therapeutic management and care.  Promote patient care outcomes on ongoing basis.

Teaching and Training

This person will play an important role in major teaching or clinical training program(s).  Supervise the patient care of assigned residents and fellows.  Teaches and supervises the patient care of assigned medical students, residents and fellows, monitoring the medical care of medical to assure care provided is safe and effective.  Contributions may include:  ongoing recognition as an excellent teacher, role model and mentor; assume an important or lead role in a major teaching or clinical training program; invite to participate in local and regional educational opportunities ; participate in and may lead the development or direction of educational program, curricular offerings and teaching materials, participates in curriculum committee or other education related committees.  Serve as a role model within the department in mentoring students and trainees.  Serve as a consultant to other faculty and community physicians.  Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars.

Service/Administration

Participates in program development for service and/or administrative as evidenced by one of the following:  make significant contributions to the development of unique programs for patient care of educational purposes or take a significant role in the direction of the academic division or provide consultation on a specific program development, or significant participation in performance improvement programs on a divisional, departmental or Medical Staff committees.  This person will also participate in local or regional clinical affairs through membership in clinical societies or specialty growing boards.  Provides faculty coverage as needed within the department.  May take a role in the development of departmental policies, procedures and standards.  Promote interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and encourage team concepts.  Assist in the development and implementation of long- and short-term goals and objectives and ensures that they are appropriate to the Division.  Complete evaluations of students, residents and peers.

Scholarly Activity

Participates in scholarly activities as evidenced by publications of clinical investigation, clinical observations, reviews, chapters or books, participation in clinical trials, and/or clinical investigations, reviews manuscripts.   Applies advanced training in research methods to design and conduct clinical research on various areas of clinical specialty.  Develop research programs in area of clinical specialty.  Demonstrate effectiveness in securing grant funding or research initiatives and programs.  Assist in the development and growth of new externally funded research initiatives.  Publish and/or co-author findings and conclusions resulting from research in a timely fashion.  Presents findings internally.  Assist in the design and implementation of programs which evaluate the efficacy of treatment.  Recommend approaches for improvement activities, recommend and perform new processes, collect and measure data, develop processes based on performance and communicate results.

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is a 700-bed pediatric facility located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.  Cincinnati Children’s is ranked 3^rd amongst all Honor Roll hospitals in the 2019-20 U.S. News & World Report.  Cincinnati is located along the Ohio River, boasting a metropolitan area with performing arts, dining, entertainment, top ranked schools and a low cost of living.

For more information, please contact:

Alisha Schweitzer

PHYSICIAN & FACULTY RECRUITER

Alisha.Schweitzer@cchmc.org