LT - Pediatric - Nephrology Opening in Philadelphia, PA
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Nephrology
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
5/13/24
**Locums Pediatric Nephrology opening in Philadelphia, PA**
**Coverage**
- Start: July 24, 2024
- End: Ongoing
**Position Details**
- To ensure reliable service, a provider must commit to a minimum of two weeks of availability per month. The provider is expected to make themselves available for calls during evenings and weekends, beginning on Monday at 7 am and concluding at the same time the following Monday. During the on-call week, the provider must see to a minimum of five outpatients each day at the clinic and be available for inpatient rounds/consults. The outpatient clinic operates between 8 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
- Typically, the provider covers 70% of inpatients and 30% of outpatients, but this may vary.
- Coverage Type: Scheduled Clinical Hours Plus Call
- Seeing newborns and pediatrics is required
- EMR System: Epic
- Will Facility Accept Multiple Providers? Yes
- Practice Setting: Outpatient, Inpatient (both are required)
- Does Provider require hospital/surgery center privileges?: No
- Are temporary privileges available?: No
- Patients Per Shift: Hospital varies- OP 7
- Bed In Department: 189 Hospital/ OP 5
- Rounding: N/A
- Admissions Required? Yes
- Is Hospital Stroke Certified? Yes
- Level 1 Trauma center
**Call Details:**
- Call Type: Beeper
- Call Response Time Required: 15 min
- Call Ratio: 0
- Call Back %: 0
- Locums Call is For: Unassigned Patients
*Avg Call # per 24 Hr:*
- Phone Consults: 0-5
- Patients Seen: 0-10
- Admissions: 0-5
**Staff:**
- RN: 1
- MA: 2
- Office Staff: 1
- NP/PA: 1 - supervision is required
**Requirements**
- BC required
- No license requirements in order to apply
- PALS required
- Estimated Credentialing Timeframe (Days): 90 days
**Skills:**
*Management and Treatment of:*
- Bartter's Syndrome- preferred
- Fabry Disease- preferred
- Fanconi Syndrome- preferred
- Hemolytic- uremic Syndrome- preferred
- Hepatorenal Syndrome- Preferred
- Renal Transplant- Preferred
*Procedures:*
- Hemodialysis- Required
- Percutaneous Renal Biopsy- preferred
- Peritoneal Dialysis, acute/chronic-preferred
- Needle biopsy of the kidney- preferred.