Physician - Emergency Medicine - Pediatrics

Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint. Visas AcceptedN/ASpecialtyPediatrics - Emergency MedicinePractice DetailsSanford USD Medical Center Emergency Department is seeking a BE/BC Pediatric Emergency Medicine Trained Physician, with either board certification in general pediatrics or adult emergency medicine, to join our group. • Join the current group of 4 PEM fellowship trained physicians who work alongside 22 EM physicians and 6 APPs • Sanford currently has the only PEM program in the Dakotas • Level I Verified Adult & Level II Pediatric Trauma Center with 46,000+ encounters per year (adult + pediatric) • Pediatric emergency department visits per year = 6,000 • 15 shifts per month • Current shift hours: 0800-1700 & 1600-0000 • Opportunity to participate in both clinical practice and academic medicine • New Pediatric Emergency Department opening January 2026 – 10 dedicated rooms including a trauma bay, adjacent to the main ED (main ED has 32 beds) • Emergency Medicine Residency program launching in July 2026 • The inaugural EM residents will collaborate closely with Pedicatric residents from both SD and ND • Children’s Hospital is a 146-bed state-of-the-art tertiary care center with 80+ sub-specialists; facilities include a 58-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a 12-bed Pediatric ICU • AirMed Program has 2-fixed-wing planes and 1-helicopter About Sanford HealthSanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 55,000employees and serves over 2million patients and nearly425,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including Iowa, Minnesota, North, South Dakota, Wyoming, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 56 hospitals, 288 clinic locations,147 senior care communities, 4,000physicians and advanced practice providers and nearly 1,500 active clinical trials and studies. The organizational transformation virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to 78 specialties.About Sanford Health in Sioux Falls•545 hospital beds•The only Level I Adult Trauma Center in the state of SD and the only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center in the state of SD•Free standing Sanford Children’s Hospital•Sanford Boekelheide Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the region’s only Level IV NICU•Large referral area•Research and teaching opportunities•Serving a city population of 277,076•540+ Physicians and 550+ APPsCommunity DescriptionLocated in the heart of the Midwest, Sioux Falls balances and excellent quality of life with a strong economy in safe, clean environment in southeast South Dakota. With a competitive cost of living, no state income tax and amenities of a community twice its size, such as fine dining, shopping, arts, sports and nightlife, Sioux Falls is a welcoming and friendly place to call home.Job DescriptionEmergency Medicine Core Privileges include the ability to assess, evaluate, diagnose, perform history and physical examinations and provide initial treatment to patients of all age groups, who present to the emergency department with any symptom, illness, injury, or condition.QualificationsM.D. or D.O. degree. Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested: An applicant who has just completed a residency provides his/her residency log. OR An applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate active practice in the emergency department in the past 12 months with a census equal to or exceeding 3,000 patient visits annually. OR If a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s hospital-based clinical activity for the past 12 months is required and must show that applicant has practiced in an emergency department that had a census equal to or exceeding 3,000 visits annually. More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes. Successful completion of an Emergency Medicine residency program accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. Training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above, may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing Policy. Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/ subspecialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)CompensationSanford Health offers a nationally competitive daily salary with a night differential, with an additional physician benefits package including a health, dental and vision insurance, 401K plan, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, CME allowance, malpractice insurance and tail coverage, and relocation allowanceRecruiter InformationJessilyn Barker, Lead Physician RecruiterPhone: View phone number on click.appcast.io Or View email address on click.appcast.io is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call View phone number on click.appcast.io or send an email to View email address on click.appcast.io: SD, Sioux FallsType: Full time