Clements Section Chief – Clinician Educator

CUH Section Chief - Hospitalist Physician |Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor/ Clinical Professor/Professor  UT Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TXThe Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Hospital Medicine is recruiting a CUH Section Chief to join the Division of Hospital Medicine at the rank of Clinical Associate Professor/Associate Professor/Clinical Professor/Professor. This is a full-time position providing a unique academic opportunity to engage in diverse clinical experiences at one of the nation’s leading academic institutions.

The Hospital Medicine Division is a large academic multi-site group with a variety of practice locations and a diverse mix of patient populations. Physicians provide direct patient care, participate in operational improvement, quality improvement, and patient safety efforts, and play a critical role in educating, mentoring  and preparing the next generation of physicians.

Job Summary
· Direct and manage all aspects of the Hospital Medicine Program at Clements University Hospital
· Perform administrative oversight and operational tasks necessary for the efficient operations of the Program, including scheduling of Providers
· Assume responsibility for participation or designation of a designee for CUH committees including Hospitalists Monthly Meeting, Medical Executive Committee, Medicine Services Weekly Adverse Event Review, Infection Prevention, and Quality of Care and Patient Safety Committee
· Interaction with physician and hospital leadership to ensure effective problem solving and efficient Program operations.
· Management of the hospitalist leaders, physicians, nurses, and advanced practice practitioners (APP’s).
· Supervise and mentor the Medical Directors of Clinical Operations, Faculty Development and Performance, Quality and Safety as they assist in managing key components of the program.
· Foster and maintain high levels of collegiality and service quality among the group, and between the hospitalists and other clinical services.
· Ensure smooth transitions of care between the inpatient and outpatient setting.
· Measure and improve the quality and efficiency of care using standard inpatient quality metrics including patient satisfaction, length of stay metrics, readmission rates, case mix index, % DC orders before 10a, and/or other measures.
· Provide onboarding for the new physicians and APPs recruited to the Program.
· Supervise the development, implementation, scheduled revision, and dissemination of EPIC order sets, policies, and procedures pertinent to the Hospitalist Program.
· Review the annual faculty evaluations for the hospital medicine faculty focusing on clinical and academic performance, and assist in creating individual career development plans, as appropriate.
· Increase the academic productivity of the Hospitalist Faculty and APP’s by encouraging and mentoring their participation in regional and/or national conferences, research activities, and publication of abstracts and/or manuscripts.
· Lead regular operational meetings with the hospital medicine group to provide continuing oversight and scrutiny of clinical performance, productivity, quality, patient satisfaction, and inter-service communication and coordination.
· Lead operational and financial reviews of the Hospitalist program with presentations to the Department
· Recruit new physicians, APPs, and other staff as needed to meet program goals.
· Measure and improve the overall clinical productivity and efficiency of the hospital medicine group including a system for monitoring and reporting individual and group clinical productivity (wRVU report cards) and including timely and appropriate billing
· Oversee the development of a hospital-medicine curriculum…