Pediatric Psychology - Functional Disorders / Pain - Clinical Instructor (Postdoctoral Fellowship)

The Medical College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Wisconsin invite applications for a one-year Instructor (Postdoctoral Fellowship) position in Pediatric Psychology and Developmental Medicine with a focus on Functional Disorders. The fellow will gain extensive supervised clinical experience at the Jane B.

Pettit Pain and Headache Center and the Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic. Responsibilities include psychological assessment and psychotherapy with children and families, consultation to schools

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, provide consultation, assessment and intervention with children and families.
• Function as member of a multidisciplinary health team, attend meetings, collaborate with other members and staff.
• Complete a scholarly project in line with the fellow's career goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

The Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Wisconsin is seeking applications for a 1-year Instructor (Postdoctoral Fellowship) position in Pediatric Psychology and Developmental Medicine with a focus on Functional Disorders. The instructor will provide extensive supervised clinical experiences within the Jane B. Pettit Pain and Headache Center and the Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic with patients and their families. Clinical activities include psychological assessment and psychotherapy for children and affected families as well as consultation and liaison services to schools and other community agencies. The fellow will also participate in several interdisciplinary clinics including Functional GI Disorders Clinic, Elimination Disorders Clinic, Chronic Pain Clinic, Headache Clinic, and Comfort Ability workshops. The fellow provides care to patients in outpatient settings and collaborates closely within the broader interdisciplinary teams. Fellows are expected to carry a caseload of approximately 25 patients.

Opportunities for umbrella supervision of psychology trainees are also available. In addition to clinical care, fellows will have time allotted for administration and professional development didactics.

While the Functional Disorders fellowship is primarily clinical in nature, the fellow will also have opportunities to complete a scholarly project, deliver presentations, and engage in program development. Additional details about the program can be found at: https://www.mcw.edu/departments/pediatrics/divisions/Pediatric-Psychology-and-Development-Medicine .

Anticipated start date is September1,2025.

Characteristics of an Instructor Rank appointment:

• Transition to career independence through the development of professional skills that enable the postdoc to actively pursue a career of his/her own choosing.
• Be supervised by at least one faculty member who actively promotes the postdoc's professional development.
• Establish an individual development plan (IDP) that incorporates the postdoc's career and training goals.
• Participate in a scholarly project during their appointment.
• Attend a weekly professional development seminar.
• As postdocs are important members of the MCW community, appropriate levels of compensation, health care, and other benefits commensurate with their essential status will be afforded, independent of the postdoc's source of funding.

Primary Functions

• Under supervision, provide consultation, assessment and intervention with children and families.
• Function as member of a multidisciplinary health team, attend meetings, collaborate with other members and staff.
• Complete a scholarly project in line with the fellow's career goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Medical College of Wisconsin

At the core of everything we do at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is the pursuit of new knowledge and the power of academic medicine. Bringing together the world's top scientists and clinicians, inspired students, and invested communities, we are driven to solve the most complex challenges in health and society. MCW is home to a diverse group of thought leaders collaborating to build a healthier world and a continuous cycle of life-changing knowledge. MCW has approximately1,600 full‑time and part‑time faculty and approximately3,445 full‑time employees.

Children's Wisconsin and Children's Specialty Group

Children's Wisconsin is the state's only independent health care system dedicated solely to the health and well‑being of children. With more than1.3million annual connections with kids and families statewide, Children's provides a wide range of care and support—everything from routine care to lifesaving advances and treatment options, foster care and adoption services, child advocacy, and provides an insurance plan.

Children's and its joint venture with the Medical College of Wisconsin— the Children's Specialty Group (CSG)—are the largest providers of pediatric healthcare in the state, serving the children and families of Wisconsin with the highest level of care through their American College of Surgeons LevelI Children's Surgery Verification Center, LevelI Pediatric Trauma Center, Diagnostic Imaging Center of Excellence, 72‑bed LevelIV NICU, LevelIV Epilepsy Center, and a72‑bed PICU. In2021‑2022, CW and CSG had six specialties ranked by USNews & WorldReport: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; gastroenterology and GI surgery; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; and pulmonology. With over70 specialties and675 providers, CSG providers had220,000 outpatient visits at13 regional care sites,67,000 emergency department/trauma center visits, and over9,000 admissions.

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