Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Job Description

The Division of Pediatrics in conjunction with the Institute of Critical Care Medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital is seeking an academic board certified/eligible Pediatrician for its NICU faculty.

The Mount Sinai Hospital is the quaternary care hospital for the Mount Sinai Health System, serving a diverse population of patients. Our ACGME accredited fellowship program in Pulmonary and Critical Care attracts some of the best fellows from across the country. Academic appointments are through the Icahn School of Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the country. Interested candidate must have a good track record in teaching and mentoring fellows, residents, and medical students. Academic area of interest and a focus on research is a plus.

Position Details:

• Academic appointment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Highly competitive compensation package

• Outstanding collaborative and collegial work environment with a large, multidisciplinary intensive care group

• Opportunities for academic involvement in research and teaching

Qualifications

Position Qualifications:

• Medical degree from an accredited university

• New York State Medical License

• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine

• Committed to Mount Sinai’s vision and the communities it serves

• Excellent communication, bedside manner, and organizational skills

• Respectfully collaborate and build relationships with a diverse set of teammates

Compensation range from 300K to 375K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

Salary Disclosure Information:

Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:

Alex Cano

Executive Director Physician Recruitment

Mount Sinai Health System

Alex.cano@mountsinai.org

Responsibilities

Initially, your duties include but are not limited to the following:

CLINICAL

a. To provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based, critical care at Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) by investigating, diagnosing, and treating acutely ill patients. This may include performing treatments and procedures at the bedside, such as, airway maintenance/ intubation, bronchoscopy, cardioversion, point of care ultrasound, central line insertions, ACLS, and others in order to manage critically ill patients in the ICUs.

b. You will have clinical duties as a full-time intensivist. This may include both shifts in the ICU and on other critical care services. ICCM provides 24/7 intensivist coverage across Mount Sinai Health System. You will have an appointment as Assistant Professor. You will be a member of the Institute for Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital site, providing service for the Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Night Intensivist Coverage Service (NICS).

c. Full-time critical care faculty are responsible for 13 shifts per month with a combination of day and night shifts. Your monthly shift count will be allocated according to your critical care clinical effort.

d. Write detailed medical records for all critical care services and procedures provided to patients and submit to Charge Capture in a timely manner. All notes must be in accordance with the MSHS Assurance and Compliance Services Department’s policies.

e. Achieve an annual work-relative value unit (wRVU) target based on billable critical care services and procedures. You may qualify for a productivity bonus if the wRVUs generated exceed your annual target.

f. Once minimum monthly requirements are achieved, there will be an opportunity to work extra shifts for additional compensation. To receive payments for these additional shifts, you must complete Mount Sinai’s attestation form and submit it to the Administrator of the Department within five (5) business days of providing coverage for the per-diem session. Payment for each service will be made in a lump sum within 60 days of your service if the faculty attestation form is submitted timely.

g. Participate in clinical continuing education courses and workshops to expand competency in treatment and procedures.

QUALITY:

a. Obtain exceptional clinical outcomes by promoting safety and quality through evidence-based medicine and excellent multidisciplinary communication. Focus on reducing the length of stay and excess days in patients with respiratory failure and tracheostomy.

b. Achieve several individual and team-based metrics for patient care which align with ICCM's quality incentive. These metrics include, but are not limited to: hand hygiene targets, CLABSI and CAUTI targets, central line and foley catheter utilization targets, and 50% attendance to ICCM monthly

c. Promote safe, quality, and equitable care by participation in unit/team-specific quality improvement projects (USQI) and unit/team based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) projects. These projects are conducted on an annual basis and progress is presented in the monthly ICCM Patient, Safety, and Quality Initiatives (PSQI) meeting. Submission of presentations must be submitted 1 week in advance of scheduled PSQI meetings. These projects are also part of the ICCM quality incentive program.

EDUCATION

a. Teach evidence-based medicine to critical care fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Educational activities may include teaching at patients' bedside, in a classroom environment or via Vodcast and/or developing a simulation curriculum.

b. Lead by example and mentor critical care fellows, residents, nurse practitioner, and physician assistants on clinical projects and career goals.

c. Complete thorough fellowship evaluations within 2 weeks of receipt and participate in recruitment efforts for trainees.

d. Teach in fellowship training days, such as bootcamps, ultrasound courses, and SIM courses.

e. Attend continuing education, research, and clinical conferences within MSHS and externally.

RESEARCH

You are expected to participate in research activities including clinical trials and drafting manuscripts for academic journals. Research initiatives should be clinical in nature, data-driven, and may include participation in specific ICU or team-based projects.

These duties may be modified by the ICCM Director based on Institutional needs.

About Us

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

" About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time—discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2023-2024.

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