Open Rank, Clinical Faculty Appointment (CFA) - Breast Medical Oncology

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center•Houston, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking an Open Rank, Clinical Faculty Appointment (CFA) for Breast Medical Oncology. This role involves a significant clinical practice (80%), administrative and service duties (5%), research (5%), and education/teaching (10%). The position requires exemplary clinical practice, patient examination, and the ability to perform invasive procedures. The faculty member will develop and maintain a clinical practice, ensure proper coding and documentation, correspond with physicians, stay updated on medical advancements, share clinical responsibilities, and provide peer review. Administrative duties include participating in best practice initiatives, serving on committees, and representing the department at meetings. Research involves engaging in clinical and translational research, developing research programs, identifying funding sources, and submitting grants. Educational responsibilities include acting as a role model, supervising trainees, and participating in teaching conferences. External service may involve participating in committees, collaborative research, and editing/reviewing scientific publications.

Requirements

Capable of providing complete and thorough history and physical patient examinations.
Must be able to perform invasive procedures as dictated by the physician's subspecialty.
Requires standing, bending, stooping, lifting, hearing, manual dexterity, and clear and concise verbal communications.
Requires dictating in a clear and concise manner, and visual review of documents.
Requires listening to and assimilating information from conferences.
Ability to synthesize a myriad of information pertaining to the area of research.
May necessitate instructing, through written or verbal communication, research support personnel in clinical trials implementation.
Ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

Nice To Haves

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening.

Responsibilities

Practice clinical medicine in an exemplary manner in standards set forth by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners properly balanced with other academic activities.
Provide complete and thorough history and physical patient examinations.
Perform invasive procedures as dictated by the physician's subspecialty.
Develop and maintain a clinical practice for patients referred to MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Provide physician staffing as appropriate for a training center and consult service at a level commensurate with that which would be provided by other physicians with the same level of training and experience.
Visually review for proper ICD-10 and CPT coding and approve all charge documents within four working days.
Complete patient documentation for medical records within time frames provided by institutional policy.
Correspond as appropriate in writing or in telephone conversations with physicians regarding patient care and treatment.
Keep abreast of current approaches in the management of patients through attendance at continuing education conferences in the specialty.
Share clinical responsibilities with other faculty including but not limited to inpatient service, outpatient clinic and outpatient procedures and other duties as requested.
Request appropriate consultations for patients by phone conversations or in writing to other physicians.
Provide peer review for assessing the clinical practice of faculty within the department.
Participate in quality improvement and institutional effectiveness or healthcare excellence projects.
Participate in investigation and review of best practice initiatives and clinical and institutional effectiveness projects.
Serve on institutional and hospital committees as requested by the Chair.
Represent the Department by participating or presenting at local, regional, state, and national meetings in the field of medical oncology.
Actively engage in clinical and translational research and scholarly activities to enhance the academic environment of the department.
Develop research programs of scholarly activities in keeping within the goals of the department.
Identify grants and funding sources for funding of research, submit grants and protocols in accordance with rules and deadline applications, and develop budgets and analysis and complete grant and protocol application forms.
Act as a role model for faculty, fellows, residents and students.
Provide a balanced and integrated educational program for pediatric residents and fellows.
Attend and participate in Department teaching and continuing education conferences.
Supervise trainees as needed during their clinical rotations.
Participate in external or extramural service such as but not limited to external research committees, collaborative research activities, conferences, professional society activities, study sections, staff meetings, etc.
Edit and/or review presentations for scientific meetings, seminars, or public dissemination of research findings, abstracts, protocols, manuscripts, books, publications, reports or oral presentations, patents associated with research, research proposals, grant application.