Neonatology job

•   JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
•  Round on all NICU babies
•  Attend high risk deliveries (typically 67 shifts / month)
•  Back up the Pediatric Hospitalist as requested
•  Attend High Risk Followup Clinic once per month for a half day
•  Attend Medical Staff Meetings (General, Peds, Perinatal M&M)
•  Serve on Medical Staff Committees as requested (usually 1 committee)
•  Cover 10 shifts/year at 2nd facility: UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, Oakland
•   DETAILS:
•  Level 3 16bed NICU
•  All highrisk deliveries
•  Highrisk deliveries >35 weeks are shared between the Hospitalists and the Neonatologists
•  NICU averages about 170 admissions per year
•  Average daily census is approximately 78
•  The NICU manages infants >28 weeks gestation and provides short term conventional ventilation and BCPAP
•  Typically 78 hrs a day are spent doing NICU care with roughly 4-6 hrs being on rounds and the remainder attending high risk deliveries.
•  Day shift is from 7AM through 5PM. The night shift begins at 5PM and ends 7AM the following day
•  Call is from home
•  When not on service, rounding, attending deliveries or meetings it is not the expectation to remain in house
•  Expect to be called in for a delivery once or twice every third time on call though this may be quite variable. Typically,
•  Neonatologist is expected to cover 24 weekends per year, and a share of the major holidays
•   COMMUNITY:
•  Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area
•  Commutable form Sacramento or San Francisco
•  Easily accessible to major highways such as I80 and I-680
•  Convenient proximity to the Napa Valley wine region as well
•   REQUIREMENTS:
•  BC/BE Neonatology
•  NRP instructor course completion and facility in all NRP procedures (including intubation and UVC placement)
•  Core procedures including, but not limited to: ETT, UAC, UVC, LP, Chest Tube placement and circumcision