Physician Neonatology - Competitive Salary

Job Description JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: Round on all NICU babies Attend high risk deliveries (typically 67 shifts / month) Back up the Pediatric Hospitalist as requested Attend High Risk Followup Clinic once per month for a half day Attend Medical Staff Meetings (General, Peds, Perinatal M&M) Serve on Medical Staff Committees as requested (usually 1 committee) Cover 10 shifts/year at 2nd facility: UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, Oakland DETAILS: Level 3 16bed NICU All highrisk deliveries Highrisk deliveries >35 weeks are shared between the Hospitalists and the Neonatologists NICU averages about 170 admissions per year Average daily census is approximately 78 The NICU manages infants >28 weeks gestation and provides short term conventional ventilation and BCPAP Typically 78 hrs a day are spent doing NICU care with roughly 4-6 hrs being on rounds and the remainder attending high risk deliveries. Day shift is from 7AM through 5PM. The night shift begins at 5PM and ends 7AM the following day Call is from home When not on service, rounding, attending deliveries or meetings it is not the expectation to remain in house Expect to be called in for a delivery once or twice every third time on call though this may be quite variable. Typically, Neonatologist is expected to cover 24 weekends per year, and a share of the major holidays COMMUNITY: Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area Commutable form Sacramento or San Francisco Easily accessible to major highways such as I80 and I-680 Convenient proximity to the Napa Valley wine region as well REQUIREMENTS: BC/BE Neonatology NRP instructor course completion and facility in all NRP procedures (including intubation and UVC placement) Core procedures including, but not limited to: ETT, UAC, UVC, LP, Chest Tube placement and circumcision