PLC Pediatrician Preceptor/Newborn Nursery

This is a 0.25 FTE Fee for Service position located at PLC, and can be split by more than one physician.  This is a two year position.

​​Physicians are required to provide adequate coverage of the Normal Newborn Nursery and Pediatric Teaching Unit at the PLC site. The birth of newborns is independent of the number of physicians able to provide care. The Pediatric Preceptor role reports to the Corridor Clinical Department Head of Pediatrics and the PLC Pediatric Site Lead.

The Pediatric Preceptor Program provides family medicine residents, pediatric residents and medical students the opportunity to experience well supervised clinical practice and teaching on the inpatient pediatric unit and newborn units at the Peter Lougheed Center. Overall, all students and residents will have a balanced learning environment where patient care and teaching are concurrent. Preceptors are expected to provide direct on site supervision of medical learners for 9 hours each day during their assigned weeks. The number of weeks available to each preceptor will vary with the number of preceptors in the program but, in general 4-8 weeks is expected. At a 0.25 FTE this will average 6 weeks of coverage with 9 hours per day. 

The role of the Preceptor is that of a supervisor and teacher. The Preceptor will attend rounds with the teaching team on a daily basis. Preceptors are responsible for inpatient care of all admissions during their week of services as well as to provide on-going care and consultation services as required in the newborn nursery. Overnight call is generally done from home with in-house learners to triage and review new admissions. When on-call, physicians are responsible for the inpatient team overnight (from 5pm - 8am) and are assigned to care for all newborns delivered during their call shift. New admits and newborns are typically seen the following day. In the nursery, preceptors may supervise, observe and teach clerks and residents. Preceptors also act as consultants for outside community calls from allied health such as public health nurses and midwives. Preceptors will evaluate learners by the One 45 and MedSIS systems.

The Department of Pediatrics has over 500 clinical and academic faculty members who are part of the rapidly growing Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. Refer to the Department of Pediatrics website at www.ucalgary.ca/paed for more information about the Department, its faculty, services and accomplishments.​ 

​​Interested applicants should apply through the website portal and include the following attachments with their application: 

​•               Cover letter 

​•               Curriculum vitae 

​•               The names and contact information for three referees 

All interviewed applicants will require three letters of reference that reflect their academic and professional experience, to be sent to: Dr. Antonia Stang, Calgary Corridor Department Lead: Antonia.Stang@albertahealthservices.ca and wanda.parr@albertahealthservices.ca ​  

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