Assistant/Associate/Professor-Pediatrics (Pulmonology) (Job ID #149034)

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The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP) is seeking board-certified or board-eligible pediatricians to fill a full-time position in the Department of Pediatrics’ pulmonology division.

The ideal candidate will have an MD, DO, or equivalent degree, completed 3 years of pediatric residency/3 years pediatric pulmonology fellowship, be BC/BE in Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology and will hold or have applied for an Illinois physician’s license.  The position includes teaching medical students and residents, scholar activities and providing clinical services for outpatients and inpatient services for patients hospitalized at OSF Healthcare Children’s Hospital of Illinois, UICOMP’s main clinical partner.  The pulmonary program includes ventilator dependent program, accredited CF center sleep medicine program, asthma clinics and general pulmonary clinics as well as bronchoscopy and PFTs.

The primary teaching hospital of UICOMP is the Children’s Hospital of Illinois at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center (CHOI), a tertiary care facility serving a 37 county region with a population base of over two million.  CHOI provides comprehensive services to children, including Level IV NICU and a state-designated Pediatric Critical Care Center.  CHOI is a major medical facility with 124 beds and a 32-bed critical care unit and the only Level 1 trauma center in Illinois outside of Chicago. The Jump Trading Simulation Education Center, a state of the art simulation facility with over 40,000 square feet of space for faculty and other resources, is a joint venture between UICOMP and CHOI and is located on the OSF campus.