Baylor College of Medicine
Pediatrics - Critical Care (Assistant Professor)
This role focuses on caring for seriously ill infants and children in a pediatric critical care setting, including patients with respiratory failure, septic shock, neurological emergencies, severe trauma, and post-operative needs. The position also includes performing procedures, providing conscious sedation, and participating in administrative, academic, teaching, and quality improvement activities.
Key Responsibilities
- • Care for seriously ill infants and children who need a high-level of monitoring and treatment.
- • Care for patients with respiratory failure due to pneumonia or bronchiolitis, septic shock, neurological emergencies such as seizures, severe trauma, and post-operative patients including neurosurgery and organ transplantation.
- • Frequently supervise and perform procedures, including intubation and central lines, as well as provide conscious sedation for patients within the ICU.
- • Provide care in collaboration with all pediatric subspecialties in addition to pediatric nursing, respiratory therapy, and ancillary services.
- • Participate in administrative and academic duties that are pertinent to the section of critical care medicine.
- • Participate in research endeavors.
- • Supervise and educate residents, fellows, and advanced practice providers (NP or PA).
- • Lead educational efforts for nurses.
- • Participate in collaborative quality projects with other areas of the hospital.
- • Participate as a member of the section of critical care in activities such as committee representation, teaching and education, and patient care discussions.
Required
- • Residency in Pediatrics
- • Fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care
- • Minimum years of experience: Fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care (3 years)
Summary
The Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics - Critical Care is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a full-time role as an Assistant Professor.
The Division of Critical Care Medicine is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of attending critical care physicians, advanced practice providers (Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants), postdoctoral fellows, and research support personnel committed to the care of patients suffering from a life-threatening illness or injury.
Location: Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
The Baylor College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics - Critical Care is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a full-time role as an Assistant Professor.
The Division of Critical Care Medicine is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of attending critical care physicians, advanced practice providers (Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants), postdoctoral fellows, and research support personnel committed to the care of patients suffering from a life-threatening illness or injury.
Location: Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
- One of the largest free standing academic children's hospital in the country.
- Located in the heart of the Texas Medical Center located just south of Downtown Houston
- More than 650 total beds with over 3.5 million patient encounters annually
- 92 bed Pediatric ICU with dedicated subspeciality cohorts:
- Surgical ICU
- Neuro ICU
- Pulmonary ICU
- Hematology/Oncology ICU
- Transitional ICU for patients with chronic complex medical conditions and advanced medical equipment needs
- Separate Heart Center with 48 bed cardiac ICU and adult congenital heart disease unit
- Level 1 trauma center
- Work Schedule: Days, Nights, Weekends, Holidays
- Care for seriously ill infants and children who need a high-level of monitoring and treatment. This will include those with respiratory failure due to pneumonia or bronchiolitis, septic shock, neurological emergencies such as seizures, severe trauma, and post-operative patients including neurosurgery and organ transplantation.
- Will frequently supervise and perform procedures, including intubation and central lines, as well as provide conscious sedation for patients within the ICU.
- Care is provided in collaboration with all pediatric subspecialties in addition to pediatric nursing, respiratory therapy, and ancillary services.
- Participate in administrative and academic duties that are pertinent to the section of critical care medicine. This may include research endeavors; supervision and education of residents, fellows, and advanced practice providers (NP or PA); leading educational efforts for nurses; or collaborative quality projects with other areas of the hospital.
- Participate as a member of the section of critical care in activities such as committee representation, teaching and education, and patient care discussions.
- Educational Requirements: Residency in Pediatrics, Fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care
- Minimum years of experience: Fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care (3 years)
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