Physician - Pediatrics

# Careers With Purpose
** Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We’re proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50,000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.
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** Specialty
* * Pediatrics
* * Practice Details
** Sanford Health is currently seeking a BC/BE Pediatrician to join the region's largest team of board certified, fellowship-trained pediatricians and pediatric specialists at its Thief River Falls, Minnesota clinic.

• Full time clinic practice with 16-20 patients a day  
• Hospital call, rounding and newborn nursery  
• Shared 1:5 call with Family Medicine providers  
• Medical center is a spacious, modern 65,000 square foot facility  
• Over 30 specialty services offered  
• Brand new, $60 million, critical care access hospital  
• More than 600 Sanford Health employees and 36 physicians work within the community  
• Thief River Falls serves as a regional health center to a mostly rural population of 75,000
** Community Description
** Thief River Falls, Minnesota population is 8,600 and growing and is just an hour away from Grand Forks, ND, home of the UND School of Medicine.  
• Home to Arctic Cat and worldwide electronic    distributor, Digi-Key Corporation.  
• Amenities including retail shops & technical    college
** Job Description
** Pediatric Core Privilege include the ability to admit (if applicable to setting), evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to patients from birth to young adulthood (21 years of age) concerning their physical, emotional, and social health as well as treating acute and chronic disease, including major complicated illnesses. Core privileges may also include providing care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies.

In addition, applicants may assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.
** Qualifications
* * M.D. or D.O. degree.
Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways and should be reflective of the privileges being requested:

An applicant who has just completed a residency provides his/her residency log.

ORAn applicant who is not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from the hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the past 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications. The applicant must be able to demonstrate at least 50 pediatric patients in the last 12 months.

ORIf a quality profile is not available from the hospital(s) where the applicant currently has privileges, documentation of the applicant’s clinical setting activity for the last 12 months is required. The applicant must be able to demonstrate at least 50 pediatrc patients in the clinical practice in the last 12 months.

More education and experience may be required the more advanced the practice becomes.
Successful completion of a hospital affiliated residency Pediatric program accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada. Training at residency programs accredited by organizations other than the above, may be considered via the waiver of eligibility process as defined in the Credentialing Policy.

Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/sub-specialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as applicable. Those applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement.

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