UTHealth Houston
Assistant/Associate Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine - Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School
Pediatric hospitalists deliver high-quality, evidence-based, family-centered care to hospitalized pediatric patients, with 24-hour on-site clinical care and supervision of residents and students. The role includes protected time for administrative, education, QI, or research work within an academic program featuring a large pediatric residency and a PHM fellowship. No delivery or nursery responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- • Deliver high-quality, evidence-based, family-centered care to hospitalized pediatric patients at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center and Greater Houston
- • Provide 24-hour on-site clinical care
- • Supervise residents and students
- • Provide strong education for pediatricians, students, families, colleagues, and other medical professionals through curriculum development and educational research
- • Prioritize effective communication, professionalism, excellent patient care, ongoing patient safety, and quality improvement initiatives
- • Protected time for administrative, education, QI, or research work
- • Competitive promotion track
Schedule
- • Average of 32 clinical hours per week
- • Primarily day shifts; 2-3 nights per month on average
Required
- • Texas Medical License or be eligible for a Texas Faculty Temporary License
- • Board-eligible or board-certified in Pediatrics
- • Outstanding clinicians with exceptional communication skills, a passion for education and training, and an interest in quality and patient care
Preferred
- • Candidates who are board-eligible or board-certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine are preferred
Benefits & Perks
- • Outstanding University of Texas System benefits
- • Competitive compensation package
- • Excellent work-life balance
- • Supportive mentorship program
- • Collaborative work environment
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM), is actively seeking pediatric hospitalists to join our team at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Our division's mission is to deliver high-quality, evidence-based, family-centered care to hospitalized pediatric patients at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center and Greater Houston. We prioritize effective communication, professionalism, excellent patient care, ongoing patient safety, and quality improvement initiatives. We also provide strong education for pediatricians, students, families, colleagues, and other medical professionals through curriculum development and educational research, 24-hour on-site clinical care, and supervision of residents and students.
Program Highlights:
Program Highlights:
- Academic program with a large pediatric residency program and a PHM fellowship.
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital is a 322-bed quaternary care women and children's hospital located within the Texas Medical Center with 138 Pediatric beds, including the first Level I pediatric trauma center in the region, 118 NICU beds, and 76 Women's Center beds
- Primary pediatric teaching site for UT McGovern Medical School, the 9th largest medical school in the United States.
- Full complement of pediatric subspecialty services.
- Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital is Nationally Ranked in US News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals in Neurology and Neurosurgery, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, Neonatology, and Orthopedics.
- No delivery or nursery responsibilities.
- Supportive mentorship program.
- Growing Population Health, Advocacy, and Behavioral Health Care Initiatives.
- Collaborative work environment.
- Excellent work-life balance.
- Outstanding University of Texas System benefits.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Epic EHR.
- Nursing Magnet Status.
- Average of 32 clinical hours per week.
- Primarily day shifts; 2-3 nights per month on average.
- Protected time for administrative, education, QI, or research work
- Competitive promotion track.
- Texas Medical License or be eligible for a Texas Faculty Temporary License.
- Board-eligible or board-certified in Pediatrics (Candidates who are board-eligible or board-certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine are preferred).
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