Assistant Professors - Pediatric Hospitalist

Pediatrics Above average in PediatricsNo callFull-Time

Compensation

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
No call
Weekends
Includes weekends
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Job Description

Department

SOM Wichita Pediatrics

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Pediatric Hospitalists

Position Title

Assistant Professors - Pediatric Hospitalist

Job Family Group

Academic

Job Description Summary

This is a unique pediatric hospitalist opportunity that blends community feel and size, robust pediatric resources, and traditional university-based academic opportunities.

Our inpatient healthcare team is completed by a pediatric nursing staff, centralized pediatric sedation, pediatric pharmacists, dedicated pediatric respiratory therapists, allied health specialists, social work, nutrition, and child life.

Our team is the primary teaching faculty in inpatient and newborn pediatrics for our residents and medical students.

Job Description

DUTIES: Provide direct patient care for hospitalized infants, children, and adolescents on pediatric hospital floor. Provide direct patient care for inpatient newborn patients in both well newborn and level 2 nursery.

Work in conjunction with pediatric subspecialists, including anesthesia, cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, neurology, nephrology, oncology, orthopedics, radiology, and surgery, to provide effective and co-managed inpatient and inpatient newborn care.

Participate in quality improvement and patient safety activities to improve efficiency and clinical care for patients. Participation in daytime, swing, and night shift in-house coverage. Equitable participation in holiday, weekend, and call coverage. Maintain board certification in pediatrics.

Educate, supervise, and participate in the evaluation process of residents, medical students, and other allied health trainees in pediatric hospital medicine and newborn care. Attend and actively participate in division and departmental meetings. Serve on selected departmental and hospital committees as requested by the director.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: MD, DO or the foreign degree equivalent. Hold or be eligible for a Kansas medical license. Board eligible or board certified in Pediatrics. Completion of a Pediatrics residency.

If selected as a final candidate for this position, you may be required to complete the Association of American of Universities Representations and Warranties document and sign a release of records that will allow the University of Kansas Medical Center to conduct a further background check with former employers. A copy of the Representations and Warranties document can be found here.

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan.

Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays.

One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment.

A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html

Employee Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Key Responsibilities

Provide direct patient care for hospitalized infants, children, and adolescents, including newborn care in well and level 2 nurseries. Educate and supervise residents and medical students while participating in quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD, DO, or foreign equivalent and be eligible for a Kansas medical license. Completion of a Pediatrics residency and board eligibility or certification in Pediatrics is required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

SupervisionMedical educationInpatient care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Assistant Professors - Pediatric Hospitalist at University of Kansas Medical Center a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Pediatrics — ranked against 640 active Pediatrics listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Pediatrics — Physician Career Context

In Kansas, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$247k (36 salary observations; 309 listings), vs ~$292k nationally (8,574 salary observations; 50,250 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 48 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 10% are remote, 65% have no call, 25% require no weekends.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 8.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Kansas is 90.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.0% of Kansas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
42%
Sign-on bonus
32%
Relocation assistance
26%
PSLF eligible
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Work-life snapshot

6.4/ 10
Listing-based score

Above average in Pediatrics

  • No call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Wichita

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$210k
Typical market rent
$1,158/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
88.9
State income tax
Up to 5.7%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Wichita, KS metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About University of Kansas Medical Center

Hospitals and Health Care
Kansas City, KS
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health, dental, and vision insurance from day one
Health expense accounts with employer contributions
Employer-paid life and long-term disability insurance
Paid time off (vacation and sick) accruing from hire
Ten paid holidays
One paid discretionary day after six months
Paid bereavement, jury duty, military, and parental leave
Retirement program with generous employer contribution