Inpatient Academic Hospitalist / Clinical Education Director

Cottage Health•Santa Barbara, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Cottage Health seeks an Inpatient Academic Hospitalist / Clinical Education Director for the Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Residency Program at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. The position teaches, monitors, and mentors Internal Medicine residents and provides clinical oversight and education for residents and medical students. The role includes supervising resident patient care on weekdays and nights, participating in night, weekend, and holiday call, providing clinical teaching and bedside instruction, supervising procedures and procedural certification, participating in morning report and outpatient clinic supervision, and overseeing care provided by residents. The position also supports the residency curriculum, conferences, elective rotations, resident assessment and advancement, recruitment, board review, scholarly work, program evaluation, and administrative activities. The director may contribute to a range of educational topics, participate in medical education committees and faculty development, and take on other activities agreed upon with program leadership and key faculty.

Requirements

Completion of an Internal Medicine Residency.
Two years of experience, ideally including teaching responsibilities or active participation as an Internal Medicine Teaching Attending in a residency program.
Doctor of Medicine (MD).
Unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of California.
DEA Controlled Substance Registration.
Medical Staff Privileges Approval.
ABIM Internal Medicine Certification.

Responsibilities

Supervise patient care on the Internal Medicine Residents service, including weekdays and nights, and participate in the night, weekend, and holiday call schedule.
Teach clinically about resident-service patients through rounds, bedside teaching, and serving as a resource.
Supervise and teach medical students on the Internal Medicine service.
Supervise and teach appropriate procedures to residents and medical students, and oversee the procedural certification process.
Participate in morning report and supervise the outpatient Internal Medicine clinic.
Provide general oversight of clinical care delivered by Internal Medicine residents to their patients.
Maintain, update, integrate, implement, and monitor the curriculum, and monitor elective rotations.
May assist in planning and scheduling resident noon conferences, chest conference, journal clubs, Medical Grand Rounds, CPC, M&M conferences, and other Department of Medicine conferences; may occasionally serve as a discussant at noon conferences.
May participate in educational activities covering medical literature and study methods, laboratory methods and results, medical-system problem reporting and resolution, costs of medical care, pharmacology and metabolic mechanisms, evolutionary biology, and pathophysiological and biochemical correlations to clinical diseases.
Participate in the Medical Education Advisory Committee and Clinical Competence Committee.
May participate in, lead, monitor, or mentor resident promotion criteria, counseling and feedback, resident progress evaluation, MedHub evaluations, medical student recruitment and assessment, teaching resources, Medical Grand Rounds preparation, board review, individual resident mentoring, the residency website, medical informatics instruction, resident quality assurance projects, and resident research and other scholarly activities.
Participate in administrative efforts involving policies, schedules, budget, ACGME reviews, and internal reviews.
Participate in core faculty ad hoc meetings and Internal Medicine Faculty Development workshops.