Instructor - Physician Assistant Job at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

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  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Houston, TX

Job Description

Summary

The Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital is seeking full-time faculty for the position of physician assistant with specific focus on critical cardiac disease . This position offers unique experience in our high-volume pediatric cardiac intensive care units, for an individual who wishes to pursue a career in pediatric cardiac critical care.

 

The primary clinical site is at Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in the United States, an affiliated hospital of Baylor College of Medicine. The section of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics is a multidisciplinary team of attending critical care physicians, advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners and physician assistants), post-doctoral fellows, and research support personnel committed to the care of patients suffering from a life-threatening illness or injury.

 

The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Texas Children’s Hospital is one of the highest volume programs in the world. The 48-bed unit is comprised of a Neonatal CICU, Pediatric CICU, and a first of its kind, Pediatric Heart Failure ICU. In addition to over 1000 congenital heart operations annually, TCH is home to an active heart failure program, a busy thoracic organ transplantation service, and one of the largest mechanical circulatory support and VAD programs in the world. In the CICU, the candidate will work alongside pediatric critical care and cardiology physician fellows, and will join the existing CICU Faculty encompassing over 30 attending physicians (comprised of individuals who are specialty trained in pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care, anesthesia, neonatology, and internal medicine), physician Instructors training in pediatric cardiac critical care, and over 15 advanced practice providers.

Job Purpose

Provides advanced nursing care to patients in a clinical setting in an area of specialization under the direction of a physician.

Job Duties

  • Day-to-day care of children with cardiac illness requiring critical care.
  • Participation in all CCM Section and CICU educational activities including case presentations, quality reviews, didactic teaching, and core lecture series
  • Active role in education of trainees.
  • Supervision of Fellows.
  • Participation in on-call schedule for the CICU.
  • Liaison and collaboration with stakeholders in CICU, PICU, neonatology, cardiology, and congenital heart surgery.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Required: Certification from an approved Physician Assistant program
  • Required: Certification as a Physician Assistant by the Texas State Board of Examiners
  • Required: Current Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS)
  • Preferred : Master’s Degree from an approved Physician Assistant Program

 

 

 

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

 

Job Tags

Full time, Traineeship,

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