Faculty Pediatric Hospitalist
NORTH CAROLINA – Pediatric Faculty Position
The Pediatric Teaching Program at Cone Health, a community teaching hospital in Greensboro, NC, affiliated with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, is seeking both a full-time and part-time hospitalist to join its faculty of 10 physicians.
The role is that of a clinician-educator to residents and students in three clinical venues : a well-baby nursery caring for term and late preterm babies with over 6,000 deliveries per year; an 18-bed pediatric ward with over 2,000 admissions annually; and a resident acute care clinic. Call coverage is approximately once every 7 nights. Additional responsibilities include didactic teaching, mentoring, and quality improvement projects. There are no delivery responsibilities. Our longstanding partnership with UNC includes a Primary Care Residency based in Greensboro, UNC Categorical residents, third and fourth-year UNC medical students, and Hospital Medicine Fellows.
The teaching service is supported by in-house neonatologists staffing a 45-bed NICU at the state-of-the-art Women's and Children's Hospital, pediatric intensive care physicians staffing a 4-bed PICU, pediatric subspecialists, and an ambulatory clinic serving as the home site for the UNC Pediatric Primary Care Residency. Both the inpatient ward and newborn nursery are supported by nurse practitioners.
The ideal candidate will be BC / BE in Pediatrics or Med / Peds, possess outstanding clinical and teaching skills, and have at least 2 years of attending-level experience. Board certification in pediatric hospital medicine is not required. Applicants are eligible for a faculty appointment at the UNC School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, at the assistant or associate professor level. There are opportunities for clinical, QI, and administrative leadership roles.
About the area
Greensboro is the third-largest city in North Carolina, with a population of 300,000 and a regional population of approximately 1 million. It offers excellent schools, numerous parks, multicultural and sporting events, including the recently opened Tanger Center for Performing Arts, and much more. Greensboro is a family-friendly city and one of the most diverse mid-sized cities in America. For weekend getaways, it is within easy driving distance to the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area, and the beaches of NC, SC, and VA.
Please respond with questions, CV, and references to :
Keith Sarich : keith.sarich@conehealth.com
CONE HEALTH | Physician Recruitment
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Faculty Physician • Greensboro, NC, US