Associate Director; Physician Leader), Clinical Education
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, 50319, USA
Listed on 2026-02-28
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The Associate director (Physician leader), Clinical Education is a senior clinical leader within Humana's Primary Care Organization (PCO). This role combines market-based clinical teaching, active clinical practice, and provider education program leadership to elevate clinical excellence across the PCO.
You will be a visible ambassador for value‑based, senior-focused primary care oriented to provider education. You will report to the AVP, Clinical Education.
Primary Responsibilities1. Market-Based Teaching (50%)
Deliver high-impact clinical education across PCO markets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Train providers on population health, value-based care, senior care, primary care workflows, and PCO care model standards.
- Lead provider onboarding, continuing education, and targeted performance-improvement training.
- Deliver education in-person and virtually.
- Collaborate with market leadership to identify performance gaps and deploy targeted teaching interventions.
- Support markets with quality, utilization, and workflow improvement through data review and clinician coaching.
- Serve as a visible clinical educator across geographies.
- Teach at least one Grand Rounds session annually.
Maintain active clinical practice in the local market (up to 10%) to:
- Stay connected to care delivery.
- Maintain clinical credibility and licensure.
- Inform training approaches with real-world practice insights.
- Lead the PCO Grand Rounds program as the clinical owner.
- Ensure educational content meets evidence-based standards and organizational priorities.
- Develop and teach clinical topics through the Clinician Development Committee and additional forums.
- Lead development of evidence-based guidelines, pathways, and clinical practice standards.
- Support resident, student, and academic partnership programs; represent PCO in academic medical settings.
- Lead clinical and non-clinical educators.
- Provide development and performance support for APP educators.
- Promote a national teaching culture built on clinical excellence, consistency, and shared best practices.
- Participate in committees involving market operations, compliance, quality, and implementation teams.
- Identify provider education needs in partnership with enterprise and market partners.
- Represent Clinical Education in internal meetings, events, and recruiting activities.
Required Qualifications
- Board‑certified MD/DO in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine.
- Active medical license in state of practice, with the ability to obtain additional state licenses.
- Minimum 10 years of clinical practice, with strong experience in value‑based primary care.
- Experience training physicians and APPs; ability to mentor clinical learners.
- Experience in performance improvement, change management, and quality improvement.
- Experience in medical staff leadership.
- Knowledge of Medicare Advantage, coding, documentation, quality, and utilization.
- EMR navigation.
- Ability to travel approximately 30% to markets.
- APP mentorship experience.
- Experience in academic medicine, residency programs, or medical education environments.
- Experience supporting or teaching evidence‑based practice or CME‑level education.
- Athena EMR experience.
- Clinical Leadership – Serves as a respected and credible educator.
- Communication – Across audiences.
- Problem Solving – Applies structured reasoning to improve clinical and operational outcomes.
- Accountability – Consistently meets expectations in a matrixed environment.
- Technology Fluency – Leverages technology to support scalable clinical education.
- Aligns clinical education programs with organizational goals.
Travel:
While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
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