Director, GME Professional Development

Westchester Medical Center•Valhalla, NY

About The Position

The Director of GME Professional Development oversees professional development and educational initiatives across the WMC Health Graduate Medical Education enterprise, which includes more than 50 programs and over 500 trainees. The Director provides vision and oversight for professional development, educational support, resources, programming, and training for program faculty, fellows, residents, and support staff. The role fosters educational innovation, scholarly activity, collaboration, professional growth, engagement, and retention, and ensures that WMC applies current methods and best practices in teaching and learning. The Director develops and leads initiatives informed by program and institutional performance, needs assessments, accreditation data, and hospital priorities. The position partners with GME leadership and other education and quality teams, establishes delivery frameworks and standards, develops mentoring, coaching, faculty development and trainee education programs, and organizes events and learning opportunities. The Director also evaluates initiatives, documents compliance with ACGME-required non-specialty-specific education, prepares reports, provides consultations and direct teaching, and undertakes special projects as assigned.

Requirements

At least 7 years of progressive experience in institutional-level educational leadership, including developing and executing educational programming for program faculty and trainees.
Experience developing and executing educational programming for GME stakeholders.
Knowledge of ACGME institutional and program-level requirements.
Evidence of excellence in teaching, instruction, and the design and implementation of adult learning and skills-development programs.
M.D., D.O., Ph.D., D.Ed., or equivalent degree.
TAGME certification, or willingness to obtain TAGME certification when eligible.
Knowledge of the design and implementation of faculty development programs.
Demonstrated success bringing projects to fruition and providing creative, resourceful solutions to complex adult-learning challenges.
Strong working knowledge of pedagogies appropriate for medical education, including adult-learning theories and their applications.
Ability to build strong internal and external relationships with colleagues, stakeholders, faculty, and staff.
Excellent planning, organizational, and time-management skills in a complex, goal-directed environment.
Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently from inception to completion.
Demonstrated administrative and leadership skills, with a self-directed and proactive work style.
Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
Ability to exercise sound judgment independently, make decisions, and direct the work of others as needed.
Ability to maintain a positive, trusting, and collaborative work environment and to give, accept, and act on constructive feedback.
Professionalism and ethical behavior in all aspects of performance.
Demonstrated commitment to continued professional development.

Nice To Haves

Evidence of productivity in educational scholarship.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic direction, oversight, and support for professional development across GME stakeholders and programs.
Develop educational and professional development engagements based on performance, needs assessments, accreditation data, and institutional priorities.
Develop learning communities, teaching forums, and faculty engagement initiatives that advance instructional excellence.
Establish program delivery frameworks and standards across stakeholder populations.
Align faculty development programming with WMC Health’s academic and curricular priorities.
Develop faculty-facing communications, including newsletters and internal website or other engagement touchpoints.
Define educational initiative scope and deliverables that support GME objectives.
Develop and implement strategies for GME stakeholder engagement.
Engage internal and external speakers and content experts.
Develop and implement evaluation, stakeholder satisfaction, and assessment tools.
Partner with the Director of GME Accreditation and DIO on strategic professional development planning for program directors, associate program directors, faculty, administrators, residents, and fellows in non-specialty-specific areas.
Conceptualize, implement, and lead mentoring programs for faculty and for fellows and residents.
Conceptualize, implement, and lead coaching programs for faculty as educators and educational leaders, and for fellows and residents.
Develop and implement a Residents and Fellows as Teachers program and leveled faculty development programs.
Build professional-development capacity through a train-the-trainer program, including its design, implementation, oversight, and assessment.
Develop a GME educator track for residents and fellows.
Collaborate with Provider Education and Quality & Safety on a foundational quality and safety curriculum and a GME quality and safety track for residents and fellows.
Facilitate observation of clinical and didactic teaching to assess quality and identify improvement opportunities.
Develop a centralized remediation program.
Document compliance with ACGME-required non-specialty-specific education and prepare reports for institutional site visits and hospital leadership.
Collaborate on GME grand rounds planning and strategies to increase collaboration between programs and departments.
Organize professional-development events, workshops, seminars, learning communities, and conferences focused on teaching, learning, and educational scholarship.
Develop seminars, bootcamps, and retreats, including Program Director/Associate Program Director Bootcamp, Program Administrator Bootcamp, and Chief Resident/Fellow Orientation/Training.
Collaborate on simulation curriculum planning to address program accreditation and quality gaps effectively and efficiently.
Provide individual and group consultations on communication and professionalism.
Participate in direct teaching in areas of content expertise.
Undertake special projects and assignments as directed.