Physician

Pedsccm; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Pedsccm is seeking a Pediatric Critical Care physician to join their professional team at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. The role involves teaching fellows and medical students while providing expert care in a multidisciplinary intensive care setting.

The selected candidate will be engaged in various subspecialties and will participate actively in vital research and quality improvement initiatives, ultimately enhancing the care provided to critically ill children.

Qualifications

• Involvement in teaching critical care fellows and medical students.
• Active participation in research and quality improvement projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide twenty-four-hour in-house coverage in the PICU.
• Engage in comprehensive care for critically ill patients.
• Utilize advanced treatment modalities like ECMO.

Job description

The selected candidate will contribute to all aspects of the Pediatric Critical Care Division. The educational mission is accomplished by teaching our critical care fellows, pediatrics, medicine-pediatrics, and emergency medicine residents, and the medical students at McGovern School of Medicine. The expectation is to be actively involved with research and also with quality improvement projects that will improve the care of our patients. Clinical care is provided at theChildren’s Memorial Hermann Hospital , where our division staffs the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and is located in theTexas Medical Center in Houston.

Pediatric critical care medicine physicians provide twenty-four-hour, in-house coverage in a multi-disciplinary, twenty-two-bed PICU with comprehensive services for a wide variety of critically ill medical and surgical patients. Medical and surgical subspecialties from all disciplines are immediately available in the PICU. Areas of subspecialty expertise include respiratory failure, sepsis, mitochondrial diseases, solid organ transplantation, trauma and pediatric surgery, neurosurgery, and ENT. Furthermore, the PICU has available advanced treatment modalities such as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for neonatal and pediatric respiratory and cardiac failure and renal replacement therapies.