Baylor College of Medicine and Department Summary:

To promote the mission, vision, and goals of the Child Abuse Pediatrics Program, Division of Public Health Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital   To promote and ensure the existence of an environment that supports the continued delivery of quality clinical care, training and learning, communication, and patient and family centered care.

Summary

Administrative Role:

• Promote comprehensive evaluations.
• Communicate with Division chief and CAP team members to ensure effective collaboration, shared leadership, and mutual support between medical, nursing, social services, and support staff.
• Ensure that a high standard of quality in clinical record documentation is achieved for CAP evaluations and provide individual performance appraisals.
• Communicate and coordinate with Law Enforcement agencies, district attorney's offices, and community physicians as needed.
• Help to insure a seamless and coordinated delivery of care with other services.
• Act as the CAP liaison with EMS, Law enforcement agencies, district attorney's offices, and community physicians as needed.
• Ensure that a high standard of quality in clinical record documentation is achieved for Child Abuse evaluations.
• Promote the use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) guidelines.

Clinical Role:

• Provide safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and proficient patient centered care.
• Clinical duties may encompass a combination of inpatient consult service coverage, outpatient clinic coverage and CAC coverage.
• Inclusion in the "Backup" role as needed.
• Provide clinical leadership to medical and nursing staff.
• Role model ethical and professional behavior with every interaction.
• Educate medical and nursing staff when appropriate in evaluation and management of patients.

Job Duties

• Attending Physician
• Participate in continuing professional development activities to maintain personal knowledge and skills as appropriate.
• Stay current in the Child Abuse Pediatric and forensic literature.

Quality Management role:

• Assures that the quality, safety, and appropriateness of pediatric patient care services are monitored and evaluated, and that appropriate actions are taken.
• Make recommendations to improve utilizations of facilities, service, and staff, in coordination with Nursing Administration.
• Provide further quality assurance of performance, documentation, photo documentation through assessment of competency and peer review.
• Continuing Professional Development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Medical Degree, recognizable by the Texas Medical Board
• ABP sub-board certified/eligible in Child Abuse Pediatrics
• Assistant or Associate Professor of Pediatrics at BCM
• Extensive experience in Child Abuse Pediatrics
• Certifications: Pediatrics
• Requisite CAP specialty expertise
• Documented experience as a clinician, educator, and administrator in child abuse pediatrics
• Regular didactic teaching sessions with medical student, resident and fellow learners
• Participation in Division meetings and requested Division activities.
• Current medical licensure and appropriate medical staff appointment
• Evidence of involvement in scholarly activity (publications, national presentations)