Permanent Hospitalist: Pediatric Job in Massachusetts

• Position Type: Permanent
• Recruited Specialty: Hospitalist: Pediatric
• Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
• Structure of Position: Multi-Specialty Group
• Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
• Expected Patient Call Coverage: (not specified)
• Expected ER Call Coverage: No call

An Award-Winning Health System is searching for a Division Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine to join Children’s Hospital in Springfield MA.

Features of this position:

• Opportunity to provide leadership to our well-established team of 7 hospitalists which seeks to continually improve our regional and national recognition as well as academic achievement.
   
• Ability to promote scholarship including clinical QI and outcomes-based research and to provide scholarly mentorship to the team.
   
• Combination of clinical care and resident / medical student teaching with faculty appointments to both Tufts University School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts.
   
• Potential to serve as the pediatric clerkship director for Tufts and UMass students is available for those interested in a clinical educator career.
   
• Manage a diverse population of pediatric inpatients in our 53-bed general pediatric and adolescent wards with support of our top-notch onsite specialists. All patients are resident covered. We do not provide newborn nursery or PICU coverage.  

Seeking candidates with 5+ years of experience in academic pediatric hospital medicine. Ability to demonstrate leadership skills is important. Global health interest and/ or national committee involvement is welcome.

• Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
• Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
• Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
• Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card, Other
• Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
• Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes