GME PROGRAM DIRECTOR- Full-Time

Job Type

Full-time

Description

The Program Director has accountability for the establishment, monitoring, and evaluation of the clinical care delivered within the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Riverside Medical Center. With administrative assistance, has accountability for providing an educational experience that will enable resident physicians to obtain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to practice their chosen specialty independently and competently. The Program Director shall develop, modify and conduct the residency program in accordance with and as defined by the program requirements of its Residency Review Committee (RRC) in order to ensure the highest quality education and to maintain continuing full program accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Program Director reports to the Designated Institutional Official.

Essential Duties

The program director must have responsibility, authority and accountability for : administration and operations; teaching and scholarly activity; trainee recruitment and selection, evaluation, and promotion of trainees and disciplinary action; supervision of trainees; and trainee education in the context of patient care. With administrative assistance, the program director must :

• Be a role model of professionalism.
• Design and conduct the program in a fashion consistent with the needs of the community, the mission(s) of the Sponsoring Institution, and the mission(s) of the program.
• Administer and maintain a learning environment conducive to educating the trainees in each of the ACGME Competency domains.
• Develop and oversee a process to evaluate candidates prior to approval as a program faculty member for participation in the training program education and at least annually thereafter.
• Have the authority to approve program faculty members for participation in the training program education at all sites.
• Have the authority to remove program faculty members from participation in the training program education at all sites.
• Have the authority to remove trainees from supervision interactions and / or learning environments that do not meet the standards of the program.
• Submit accurate and complete information required and requested by the DIO, GMEC and ACGME.
• Provide applicants who are offered an interview with information related to the applicant's eligibility for the relevant specialty board examination.
• Provide a learning and working environment in which trainees have the opportunity to raise concerns and provide feedback in a confidential manner as appropriate, without fear of intimidation or retaliation.
• Ensure the program's compliance with the Sponsoring Institution's policies and procedures related to grievances and due process.
• Ensure the program's compliance with the Sponsoring Institution's policies and procedures for due process when action is taken to suspend or dismiss, not to promote, or not to renew the appointment of a resident.
• Ensure the program's compliance with the Sponsoring Institution's policies and procedures on employment and non-discrimination.
• Provide verification of an individual trainee's completion upon the trainee's request, within 30 days.
• Document verification of program completion for all graduating trainees within 30 days.
• Obtain review and approval of the Sponsoring Institution's DIO before submitting information or requests to the ACGME, as required in the Institutional Requirements and outlined in the ACGME Program Director's Guide to the Common Program Requirements.
• Provide access to timely confidential counseling and psychological support services to residents.
• Evaluate and modify situations that demand excessive service or that consistently produce undesirable stress on residents.
• Ensure that residents' service responsibilities are limited to patients for whom the teaching service has diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility.

Operations Management

Participation in Meetings

Requirements

Required Licensure / Education

Preferred Education

Employee Health Requirements

Exposure to :

Sensory requirements (speech, vision, smell, hearing, touch) :

Activity / Lifting Requirements :

Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to :

The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below :

Describe and explain the lifting and carrying requirements. (Example : the distance material is carried; how high material is lifted, etc.) :

Lifting involves minimal lifting of office supplies and may assist with patient care.

Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity :

Repetitive use of foot or feet in operating machine control : Not Required

Environmental Factors & Special Hazards

Environmental Factors (Time Spent) :

Inside hours : 8

Outside hours : 0

Temperature : Normal Range

Lighting : Average

Noise levels : Average

Humidity : Normal Range

Atmosphere :

Special Hazards : None

Protective Clothing Required : None

Salary Description

113,609.60 - $153,400.00 / annual

Salary : $113,610 - $153,400