Physician, Medical Doctor, Critical Care Physician

Doernbecher Children’s Hospital/Oregon Health and Sciences Universtiy

PICU Type: Multidisciplinary Cardiothoracic

Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty for Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is offering an opportunity for a full-time Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty with our dynamic team. As Oregon’s only academic health center, we strive to offer the best medical care to every child across Oregon, Southwest Washington and beyond.

The Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty is a position focused on facilitating and supporting the provision of standardized, streamlined, high-quality cardiac intensive care. This position will actively participate in initiatives empowering physician and nursing care through education and sub specialization. The CVICU faculty will collaborate with a CVICU Medical Director, intensivists, cardiologists, and surgeons in caring for cardiac patients.

The CVICU service lines operates within a 20 bed-mixed PICU. The Cardiac Intensive Care Faculty will help support their colleagues on the MSICU service line, and provider full unit coverage when on night shifts.

Work Analysis (Approximate time allocation)

Clinical:

• CVICU service 12-14 weeks per year with night call commensurate with clinical FTE
• Clinical consultation 4-8 hours per week
• Consultation
  • Provide daytime consultation for complex post-operative patients
  • Provide nighttime and weekend (phone or in-person) consultation for critically ill patients as needed
  • Monitor care and trajectory of all neonates and complex older children, providing consultation as needed
• Standing Huddles and Meetings
• Meet regularly with PICU team members
• Participate in weekly PICU Case Conference
• Attend weekly Cardiac Case Conference
• Attend weekly Cardiac sign-in conference
• Attend monthly Cardiac Morbidity and Mortality conference
• Attend monthly PICU Morbidity and Mortality conference
• Attend quarterly and ad hoc ECMO Morbidity and Mortality conference

Primary objective s of emphasis include:

• Maintaining and improving Quality and Operations of Cardiac Intensive Care
• Ensuring consistency of care
• Drive efficiencies including reduction of length of stay, FTR, and cardiac arrest

The means to accomplish these objectives include but are not be limited to:

• Involvement in all aspects of peri-operative care, including surgical decisions that are impacted by postoperative considerations and vice versa
• Surveying best practices and updating care maps for specific lesions
• Acting as the patient’s advocate in post-operative care issues
• Consultation for critically ill and/or complex cardiac patients when needed

Professional Development

• This position will join an established and highly regarded practice with clinical, research and educational responsibilities, and will hold an academic appointment.
• The Department of Pediatrics has a strong network of senior faculty who actively mentor and support the promotion and tenure tracks of more junior members.
• Educate tomorrow’s health professionals, scientists, engineers and managers in top-tier programs that prepare them for a lifetime of learning, leadership and contribution.
• Explore new basic, clinical and applied research frontiers in health and biomedical sciences, environmental and biomedical engineering and information services, and translate these discoveries, wherever possible, into applications in the health and commercial sectors.
• Lead and advocate for programs that improve health for all Oregonians, and extend OHSU’s education, research and healthcare missions through community service, outreach and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Active clinical practice and maintenance of skills through continuing medical education
• Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills
• Ability to motivate, teach, and facilitate individuals and groups
• Readiness to collaborate in an inter-professional environment
• Positive professional relations with peers
• Ability to deal objectively and fairly with controversial issues with a professional, diplomatic, tactful communication style
• Proficiency to work both independently and in a team environment
• Ability to respectfully supervise, advise, and train clinical…