What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant/Associate/Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician position at uic?
Position Summary
The Division of Child Development and Rehabilitation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria is recruiting a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician with expertise in care for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. They will participate in inpatient consultation, outpatient assessment and management, and interdisciplinary care for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. There is ample opportunity for teaching, research, quality improvement, advocacy, and community involvement.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assessment and management of children with physical disabilities in the outpatient clinic
- Inpatient consult and follow-up of patients admitted to CHOI with brain injury, spinal cord injury, physical injury.
- Follow-up of patients at Almost Home Kids, a transition to home program
- Management of movement disorders such as spasticity, and dystonia.
- Participation in the Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Cerebral Pasly Program and the Multidisciplinary Spina Bifida Program.
- Teaching medical students, residents and fellows
- Community involvement to enhance the lives of children with disabilities and their families
- Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.