Inpatient Academic Hospitalist / Clinical Education Director

Cottage Health • Santa Barbara, CA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Cottage Health seeks a Director, Clinical Care/Internal Medicine Residency to teach, monitor, and mentor Internal Medicine Residents in the Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Residency Program at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. The role combines clinical supervision of resident and medical-student care with responsibility for education, curriculum, program evaluation, and administrative support.

The director supervises care delivered by residents on the Internal Medicine service, including weekday and night coverage, and participates in the night, weekend, and holiday call schedule. The role includes clinical teaching during rounds and bedside instruction; supervision of medical students; oversight and teaching of appropriate procedures and procedural certification; participation in morning report and outpatient clinic supervision; and general oversight of residents’ clinical care.

Educational and program responsibilities include maintaining, updating, integrating, implementing, and monitoring the curriculum and elective rotations. The director participates in educational committees, faculty development, and selected teaching activities, and may contribute to conference planning, resident assessment and mentoring, recruitment, scholarly work, quality assurance, and educational resources. The role also participates in administrative work such as policies, schedules, budgets, accreditation reviews, and core faculty meetings.

Cottage Health is an acute care hospital system based primarily in Santa Barbara, California. It operates three acute care hospitals, a rehabilitation hospital, multiple clinics, and a multi-site urgent care system, and describes its mission as serving central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion.

Requirements

• Completion of an Internal Medicine Residency.
• Two years of experience, including 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 care of patients on the Internal Medicine Residents service, including weekdays and nights, and participate in the night, weekend, and holiday call schedule.
• Provide clinical teaching to residents caring for those patients, including 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 outpatient Internal Medicine clinic supervision.
• Provide general oversight of clinical care delivered by residents to patients for whom the resident service is responsible.
• Maintain, update, integrate, implement, and monitor the curriculum; monitor elective rotations.
• May assist with planning and scheduling resident noon conferences, chest conference, journal clubs, Medical Grand Rounds, CPC, M&M conferences, and other Department of Medicine conferences, and occasionally serve as a noon-conference discussant.
• May participate in educational activities covering medical literature and research methods, laboratory methods and interpretation, medical-system problem reporting and resolution, cost of care, metabolic mechanisms and pharmacology, evolutionary biology, and pathophysiological and biochemical correlations to clinical disease.
• 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 evaluations, and the E-Value online resident and program evaluation system.
• May participate in recruitment, assessment, and interviews of medical student applicants; oversee electronic and print teaching resources; and prepare residents for Medical Grand Rounds presentations.
• May support Internal Medicine Resident Board Review, individual instruction and mentoring for residents with identified problem areas, the residency website, medical informatics instruction, quality assurance projects, and resident research and other scholarly activities.
• Participate in other activities as determined and agreed to by the Associate Program Director, Program Director, and other key faculty.
• Participate in administrative efforts involving policies, schedules, budgets, ACGME reviews, and Internal Reviews.
• Participate in core faculty ad hoc meetings.
• Participate in Internal Medicine Faculty Development workshops.

Benefits

• Eligible employees may receive additional compensation, including shift differentials, on-call pay, incentive pay, and bonus opportunities, where applicable.
• Manager and above positions may participate in Cottage Health’s annual management incentive program.
• Physician compensation may include bonus potential.
• Comprehensive Total Rewards offerings are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed