Physician - Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

• Visas Accepted
• H1B
• Specialty
• Pediatrics - Physical Medicine & Rehab
• Practice Details

• Clinic-based practice with hospital consults throughout the Children's Hospital (NICU, Peds,

PICU) with outreach opportunities

• Support Peds Coordinated Treatment Centers for diagnoses: Brain Injury, Down Syndrome,

Muscular Dystrophy, Neurodevelopmental, Myelodysplasia, and Cerebral Palsy

• Ability to provide botox procedures with nitrous, propofol, mod sedation with ARU staff and anesthesia

• Sanford Health South University Medical Center rehab unit is a 21 bed CARF accredited unit with average daily census 17.4. We serve adolescents and adults in both general rehab and brain injury.

• Call will be one in four weekends.
• Region’s only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center

Community Description

The Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo metro area is a diverse, family-oriented community of 250,000 people that offers high quality of life and low cost of living. Outstanding schools, a vibrant business community, a thriving downtown district, cultural activities, and a wide variety of sports and recreation are just a few of the many reasons people love to call the Fargo area home.

Job Description

Core privileges for PRM include the ability to admit, evaluate, diagnose, and provide consultation and medical therapy to children with congenital and childhood-onset physical impairments, including related or secondary medical, physical, functional, psychosocial, and vocational limitations or conditions, with an understanding of the life course of disability.

Physicians may also provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies. They may also assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.

Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. degree.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have provided PRM inpatient or consultative services for at least 50 patients in the past 12 months.

OR

Applicants in PRM must be able to demonstrate current competence and an adequate volume of experience (100 patients) with acceptable results, reflective of the scope of privileges requested, for the past 24 months based on results of ongoing professional practice evaluation and outcomes.

Evidence of current physical and mental ability to perform privileges requested is required of all applicants for renewal of privileges. In addition, continuing education related to PRM should be required.

If the applicant is recently trained, a letter of reference should come from the director of the applicant’s training program. Alternatively, a letter of reference may come from the applicable department chair and/or clinical service chief at the facility where the applicant most recently practiced.

More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.

Applicants must have completed an ACGME program in PM&R or an accredited combined or consecutive residency training in both PM&R and pediatrics. Applicants must then complete an ACGME-approved PRM fellowship training program or complete at least three years of practice experience primarily in PRM.

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 fellowship training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their fellowship training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement. (Refer to each entity’s policy for grandfather exceptions)

Compensation

Competitive compensation package includes:

• Compensation floor of $350,000 for the first two years of the employment contract, plus estimated potential to exceed compensation floor from personally performed wRVUs.
• In addition, a $150,000 retention incentive to be paid if you remain a 1.0 FTE for 3 years (this will be subject to a contractual agreement specifying all details)

Sanford Health offers a nationally competitive compensation plan 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, allowed time away, malpractice insurance and tail coverage, and a relocation allowance.

Recruiter Information

Margaret Pfeffer | Maggie Pfeffer, Physician Recruiter Phone: +1 (701) 2346539 or Email: margaret.pfeffer@sanfordhealth.org

Sanford 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 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org.