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This full-time clinician educator position includes: clinical care, teaching of residents and medical students as well as other academic pursuits and educational and research opportunities. Responsibilities for the position include providing outpatient general pediatrics clinical services for UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists (ULPS). Teaching duties entail leading the resident outpatient rotation, including designing and maintaining curriculum, scheduling, and overseeing this rotation.

This is a non-tenure position.

• Requires an MD or equivalent degree
• Board certified or Board eligible in Pediatrics. 
• Must be able to obtain a State of Tennessee medical license

Departmental Preferences: 

Board certified or Board eligible in Pediatrics. The opportunity to join an established clinical team within the Division of General Pediatrics, providing high quality, evidence-based care in a certified medical home. Clinical and didactic teaching. Opportunities to conduct clinical QI and research projects. Opportunities for leadership in medical education within the division.

Opportunities exist for an interested candidate to provide clinical care in our Healthy Lifestyles Clinic. Knowledge in obesity medicine would be preferred and candidate may be certified or open to certification in obesity medicine.

For benefits information, please visit https://www.uthsc.edu/hr/benefits/documents/benefits-preview-packet.pdf 

Applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.

The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA/V institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER 

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is the flagship statewide, public, academic health institution in Tennessee. Founded in 1911, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science is to improve the health and well-being of Tennesseans and the global community by fostering integrated, collaborative, and inclusive education, research, scientific discovery, clinical care, and public service. Employing more than 4,600 people on its faculty, staff, and not-for-profit corporation faculty practice groups, and with more than 3,200 students across the state, UTHSC contributes $4 billion to the economy of Tennessee.

Part of the University of Tennessee System, the Health Science Center is headquartered in Memphis and includes all six of UT's doctoral-degree-granting health science colleges -- Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Graduate Health Sciences, and Health Professions. UTHSC spans the state with its four major, regional clinical health science locations in Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Nashville, as well as more than 100 clinical education sites across Tennessee. UTHSC is the largest educator of health care professionals in the state and operates the state's largest residency and fellowship advanced training programs. 

Located in West Tennessee on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis is the second-largest city in the state and among the largest cities in the Southeast. The Greater Memphis metropolitan area has more than 1.3 million residents, and the city ranks among those with the lowest cost of living in the country. It is home to a vibrant restaurant scene, a revitalized Downtown, the Midtown Arts District, many scenic neighborhoods, an active medical district, and a burgeoning airport in the midst of a $214 million modernization. 

Memphis boasts attractions, including Elvis Presley's Graceland, the Memphis Grizzlies, historic Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, the second-largest urban county park in the United States, and the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Responsibilities include education and teaching, research and clinical care, including supervision of residents and students. Responsibilities include leading the outpatient general pediatrics rotation for pediatric and med-peds residents, to entail designing and maintaining curriculum, scheduling, and overseeing all aspects of the rotation.

Clinical supervision of students, residents, and fellows. May include supervision of advanced practice providers.