Pediatric - Gastroenterology Physician

Pediatric Gastroenterologist

Warren Clinic is the largest physician group in the state with over 80+ locations and over 350+ physicians throughout eastern Oklahoma. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful practice with a large referral network from the Saint Francis Health System. Our candidate will embody the very mission, vision, and values we live by and have a strong commitment to the health and well-being of all they serve.

Job Description

• Employed position through Warren Clinic
• Board Certified/Board Eligible (Must become BC within 7 years of completing training)

Requirements

• New graduates and experienced candidates, experience preferred
• Will consider J1 Waiver and H1B Waiver applicants

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• 401k participation, 457b
• Professional liability coverage
• Vacation (25 days plus 7 holidays)
  • New Year’s Day
  • Good Friday
  • Memorial Day
  • Independence Day
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Christmas Day
• Relocation assistance
• Recruitment loan
• CME allowance of up to $4,400 annually
• $600 allocated annually for Oklahoma state, DEA, and OBNDD license renewal
• Base, wRVU, call pay

Population Served

• Pediatrics in the Eastern Oklahoma region
• Total catchment: 1.9 million with pediatrics at 600,000 which includes NW Arkansas and SE Kansas

Practice Support

• Administrative staff: 1 clinic director and 1 office supervisor
• 3 physicians
• Advanced practice providers: 1 APRN
• Registered dietitian: 2 see patients independently in clinic
• Clinical assistants (or medical assistants): 5 help with vitals, rooming patients, phone calls, and messages
• Patient service representatives: 2
• Registered nurses: 2 assist with G-tube education and changing G-tubes, contact for pharmacy and authorizations, perform enemas in office, perform biofeedback therapy

Clinic Details

• Location: 6465 South Yale Avenue, Suite 420 - William Building
• Number of exam rooms: 12
• BHT in clinic
• Anorectal manometry testing and biofeedback therapy done in clinic
• Working on IB Stem

Hospital Privileges

• The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis

Schedule

• Clinic hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
• Last Friday of every month is used as an administration day by most providers
• Endoscopy 1 day/week

Call

• 1:4, Mon-Mon, 8 am - 8 am (Physician is on call 24/7 for a full week)
• Duties: covering hospital pages, after hours for the clinic and foreign body, hospital consults
• Primary for foreign body call
• Call rotation is 10 days/month, per pediatric GI provider
• Reduced clinic schedule when on call; it is physician preference when they round

Expected Volume

• Endoscopy half to one day per week
• Clinic four days per week
• 15-18 patients per day in clinic
• Consults vary; average inpatient census is about 5 -10

Referral Pattern

• Internal pediatricians and other pediatric sub-specialties
• Private groups; there are only 3 current providers in the Eastern OK area

Teaching Opportunity

• Yes, up to physician preference
• Pediatric residents from OU and OSU
• Residents are currently scheduled with on-call provider and help cover inpatient service. They also see patients with the provider in clinic.

Highlights

• 102 pediatricians on staff, 65 specialists

Pediatric Endoscopy Suite Information

• There is one dedicated procedure room.
  • 1 RN and 1 scrub tech per room
  • Dedicated pediatric pre-op nurses and pediatric recovery nurses

Equipment

• Olympus 190 processors
• (1) 180N scope
• (3) XP190 scopes
• (2) H190 scopes
• (8) pediatric colon scopes
• Two endo processing technicians in the scope room to ensure high-level disinfect the scopes in a timely manner for the indicated procedures

Children’s Hospital

• 150 beds
• Basement: Infusion center, Day Hospital - 11 rooms, 2 procedure rooms
  • Infusion clinic hours are 9 am - 9 pm
  • IBD infusion suites for biologics
• Lobby: Admitting, St. Jude’s clinic (8th affiliate in the world allows our children to have access to their protocols)
• PICU: 20 beds ECMO, CVVH, CT scanner on the floor (Tesla MRI is installed across the hall)
• NICU: 58 beds (50 NICU, 8 L&D), one of the first ECMO programs in the state, established in 1988, Level IV NICU