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 <35 weeks gestation are covered by the Neonatologist
• 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, <1 telephone call should be expected between the hours of 5pm and 7am
• 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