Physician - Internal Medicine - Associate Program Director – Academics - Henderson

• Opportunity Details - Physician - Internal Medicine - Associate Program Director – Academics - Henderson

Candidate Type MD, DO

Visa Accepted No J-1 or H-1B

Salary Range Negotiable

Loan Repayment Not Specified

Employment Type

Full Time

Not-for-profit 501(c)(3)

IHA and Trinity Health St. Mary Mercy Hospital have an excellent full-time opportunity for an experienced Internal Medicine physician to serve as the Associate Program Director and Faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency Program located in Pontiac, Michigan.

The Associate Program Director (APD) role is 0.3 FTE, and the remaining 0.7 FTE will be clinical teaching.

The APD reports to the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. The APD is a member of the faculty of the Internal Medicine Residency Program who assists the Program Director in enhancing research, scholarly activities, and some administrative activities of the program.

The faculty for the Internal Medicine residency program provides instruction, supervision, and evaluation of resident physicians as required to meet the educational objectives of the program and to assure supervised participation of resident physicians in clinical care at a level appropriate to their training and experience. Each member of the internal medicine faculty will have clinical, administrative, research, and teaching responsibilities assigned and scheduled by the Program Director of the Internal Medicine.

The Internal Medicine faculty is selected from among the medical staff based on qualifications, commitment, and desire to function as a teacher and clinical supervisor. Faculty must be active clinicians with broad knowledge of, experience with, and commitment to internal medicine as a discipline, and to the generalist training of residents.

Specific Responsibilities for Associate Program Director:

• Dedicate an average of at least 15 hours per week average over the year to enriching and enhancing the research and scholarly activities in the program, as delegated by the program director.
• Assist in the general administration of the program, including those activities related to the recruitment, selection, instruction, supervision, counseling, evaluation, and advancement of residents, as well as the maintenance of records related to program accreditation.
• Develop and implement annual program improvement goals and objectives as related to resident and faculty scholarly activity in cooperation with the Program Director.
• Work with residents and faculty to document all scholarly activities as related to achievement of annual goals.
• Meet all the requirements for faculty position
• Assist in enhancing a research environment in the program including teaching, learning and research with the aim of encouraging curiosity and critical thinking based on an understanding of physiology, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, treatments, treatment alternatives, efficiency of care and patient safety.
• Help the program and residents disseminated scholarly learning across different platforms including local, regional, national conferences and peer-reviewed publications.
• Demonstrate and model accomplishments in research in patient care, educational innovation, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, grants, review articles, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, chapters in medical textbooks or case reports
• Helps in Creation of evaluation tools, didactic educational activities or electronic educational materials.
• Takes the lead on contribution to professional committees, educational organizations or editorial boards.

Specific Responsibilities for Faculty Physician Internal Medicine Residency Program:

• Assist in the development and improvement of the written curriculum for internal medicine, including the integration of the ACGME Competencies. Assure that residents are familiar with the written goals and objectives of educational assignments (rotations) at the beginning of the rotation or assignment.
• Provide instruction and supervision of assigned residents on the inpatient, consultation, clinic, and office teaching…