Pediatrics - Infectious Disease Job at University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria Pediatric in Peoria, IL

Looking for work-life balance?  Consider joining our team at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP), located onsite at Children’s Hospital of Illinois’s Peoria campus.

In Peoria, you can have access to big city attractions without the big city traffic and congestion. Our town and surrounding areas allow for quick access to work, and both cultural and recreational activities. Raise your family in one of our great communities and put down some roots in Illinois.

Working in Academic Medicine provides limitless opportunities from caring for your patients, educating the next generation of doctors, being an active participant in simulation and innovation, to research and collaborating with other medical specialties for the best medical outcomes.

UICOMP is seeking a BC/BE Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician to fill a full-time or part-time position in the Department of Pediatrics' Infectious Disease Division. This position offers many different options for you to customize how you'd like to practice. Shared call rotation and  our benefits package is one of the best in healthcare.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Teach infectious disease topics to medical students in lectures, seminars, clinics, and wards.
• Develop and deliver resident education in the subspecialty of Infectious Disease by providing rotations for residents on an infectious disease service, giving infectious disease core lectures, and attending morning report and other conferences.
• Serve on appropriate educational committees at the College of Medicine.
• Serve on appropriate hospital committees to improve the quality of patient care, for example, hospital formulary, infection control, or antimicrobial stewardship committees.
• Perform inpatient and outpatient care and telemedicine consultation as a consulting and attending infectious disease physician specialist.
• Work 1-2 half-days per week in the ambulatory care of HIV-infected and/or infectious disease patients.
• Opportunity to participate as a general internal medicine hospitalist attending physician on the resident teaching service.
• Deliver 1–2 lectures per year during medicine grand rounds on topics of relevance to general internists.
• Support and develop the research and scholarly activities of the Department of Medicine and the Section of Infectious Disease.
• Function as a faculty person within the statutes of the University of Illinois.
• Function as a staff member within the bylaws of the university-affiliated hospital(s).
  
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Chair of the Department of Medicine

Minimum Qualifications

• Must possess an MD, or DO, or equivalent degree.
• Must be board-certified or board-eligible for certifying examination by the American Board of Internal Medicine or a comparable certifying authority in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease.
• Five (5) years' training (three years in Internal Medicine residency and two years in Infectious Disease fellowship).
• Must be eligible for medical licensure in the State of Illinois.
• Must be eligible for medical staff appointment at a university-affiliated hospital.
• At least five (5) years’ experience as an Assistant Professor is required for the title of Associate Professor.

Your Opportunity, Community, and Future Awaits

About University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria (UICOMP) Department of Pediatrics and OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois:

UICOMP is one of the three regional campuses of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, one of the largest public medical schools in the country. UICOMP’s educational programs include 244 medical students and 300 residents/fellows in 21 different postgraduate programs. The Department of Pediatrics is one of the largest departments at UICOMP. In collaboration with the OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, the Department has 19 divisions and over 145 faculty members providing general pediatrics and subspecialty services to the pediatric population in Central Illinois. The current research infrastructure within the Department includes an office of research, a dedicated biostatistician and an internal research funding mechanism to support our faculty.

About Children’s Hospital of Illinois

The primary teaching hospital of UICOMP is Children’s Hospital of Illinois, a tertiary care facility serving a 37-county region with a population base of over two million. Children’s Hospital of Illinois provides comprehensive services to children, including Quaternary Care NICU and a state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center. Children’s Hospital of Illinois is a major medical facility with 136 beds and a 32-bed critical care unit and the only Level 1 trauma center in Illinois outside of Chicago. There are existing resources through UICOMP and Children’s Hospital of Illinois for seeding research funding, quality and outcomes focused on academic work and innovation in health education.

About OSF

Located in Peoria, OSF Healthcare Children's Hospital of Illinois is the third-largest pediatric hospital in Illinois and the most comprehensive hospital for kids downstate. With 136 beds and more than 140 pediatric subspecialists, OSF Children's Hospital cares for more children in Illinois than any hospital outside of Chicago. Formally established as a pediatric hospital within the walls of OSF Healthcare Saint Francis Medical Center in 1990, OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois has more than 7,000 inpatient admissions, 75,000 outpatient specialty visits, 2,400 newborn deliveries, and 18,000 emergency department visits each year.   

About the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center

The Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center, a part of OSF Innovation, is a collaboration between University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria and OSF HealthCare. Jump replicates a variety of patient care settings to ensure novice and seasoned clinicians can practice handling medical situations in a real-world environment. Boasting six floors and 168,000 square feet, the center is one of the largest of its kind and provides space for conferences, anatomic training, virtual reality and innovation.

About Peoria, IL

One of the oldest communities in Illinois with a population of 113,150, Peoria is equal distance from Chicago and St. Louis. Here we have an enviable standard of living, exciting venues within a 15-20-minute drive from our homes, safe streets, quality and quantity shopping, our own symphony, our own ballet, Broadway Theater League, museums, art guilds, first-class medical facilities, the nation's oldest community theater and oldest Santa Claus parade.

Our vibrant riverfront showcases a multitude of festivals and celebrations that light up the summer nights, much like our extraordinary Fourth of July Sky Concert fireworks show that draws well over one hundred thousand annually. Residents are flocking to live in the refurbished warehouses and lofts on Water Street that produce the perfect lifestyle for a 24/7 city.

We have many global businesses that allow Peoria to play all over the world through their products and services. Peoria has begun to diversify its economy with infotech industries as well. Thus, our business community attracts some of the brightest graduates throughout the nation.

UICOMP Competitive Benefits Portfolio Highlights:

• Pension
• 24 days of PTO
• 12-cumulative and 13 non-cumulative sick leave days per appointment year
• 16 Holidays
• Half of tuition to any 3 of the University of Illinois Universities (after 7-year employment)

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.

The budgeted salary range for the position is $250,000 to $290,000.

To learn more about this opportunity, reach out to:

Molly McGrew-McKee, Physician Recruitment

University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria