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Children's Mercy Kansas City is recruiting a full-time board certified/board eligible general pediatrician or board certified/board eligible pediatric hospitalist at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with strong clinical skills and an interest in academic medicine.

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About the position:

• The candidate will participate in clinical, educational, and quality improvement initiatives within the Division
• The Division is made up of greater than 40 physicians and 6 hospital medicine fellows.
• The clinical practice is primarily at our tertiary care facility at our Children's Mercy Kansas campus, which is located in a suburb of Kansas City.
• Children's Mercy Kansas serves a breadth of pediatric diagnoses with lower acuity than our main campus.
• Clinical service on this campus offers a complementary clinical experience, featuring a professionally stimulating, direct interaction with pediatric professionals in our busy on-site pediatric emergency department, as well as in our community referral area.

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, FSAs, EAPs
• PTO that increases with length of service milestones
• Extended Illness Time, Family Pay, Bereavement, Leave of Absence
• Take CARE Employee Clinic & Pharmacy provides employees, their spouses & dependent adult children (ages 18 through 25) with convenient access to quality, affordable on-site health care.
• Wellness Programs
• Accident Insurance, Basic life and AD&D coverage, Supplemental life and AD&D coverage, Long and short-term disability coverage
• Retirement plan options

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is an independent, non-profit, 390-bed pediatric health system, providing over half a million patient encounters each year for children from across the country. Children’s Mercy is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in ten specialties. We have received Magnet® recognition five times for excellence in nursing services. In affiliation with the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Kansas, our faculty of nearly 800 pediatric specialists and researchers are actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research and educating the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists.

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Kansas City is a thriving cultural and economic city with more than 2 million residents. Our city’s long list of attractions includes world class museums, a vibrant arts scene, winning professional sports teams, superb shopping, great jazz clubs, and the best places to enjoy barbeque! The city offers low cost-of-living, excellent commute times, and a vibrant downtown, eight-block dining, entertainment and shopping district. Kansas City offers excellent opportunities for both public and private school venues and is home to several colleges and universities. It’s a community with a heart – friendly, easy-going and forward-thinking – a great place to live and pursue a career

About Children's Mercy Kansas City

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is an independent, non-profit, 390-bed pediatric health system, providing over half a million patient encounters each year for children from across the country. Children’s Mercy is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in nine specialties. We have received Magnet® recognition five times for excellence in nursing services. In affiliation with the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Kansas, our faculty of nearly 800 pediatric specialists and researchers are actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research and educating the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists.

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) integrates research and clinical care with nationally recognized expertise in genomic medicine, precision therapeutics, population health and health care innovation. In 2021, the CMRI moved into a nine story, 375,000 square foot space emphasizing a translational approach to research in which clinicians and researchers work together to accelerate the pace of discovery that enhances care.