Residency Core Faculty - Clerkship Director - Emergency Medicine

MedAmerica • Evergreen Park, IL

6h • $275,000 - $900,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a GME medical student director, Emergency Medicine core faculty, and a medical student clerkship director. It involves collaboration and involvement across all residency programs. As the medical student director, responsibilities include reporting to the Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), collaborating with program directors to support undergraduate medical education programs, fostering pipeline programs for the physician workforce, setting and maintaining expectations for medical student patient care activities, developing mentoring and assistance programs for medical students, advising and mentoring students in the residency application process, mentoring residents as educators and supervisors, providing and coordinating didactic teaching for medical students, and acting as a liaison with partnering medical schools. As Emergency Medicine core faculty, the role involves defining and guiding the educational and operational goals of the Emergency Medicine medical student clerkship. Reporting to the Emergency Medicine Program Director for core faculty responsibilities, this includes working with chief residents to develop shift schedules for students, providing performance feedback and assisting with corrective action for students, acting as a mentor and educator to faculty and residents to enhance teaching quality, and contributing to recruiting efforts by developing relationships with medical school interest groups, attending fairs, and crafting recruitment messages.

Requirements

• Current board certification or board eligibility by the ABEM required.
• Documented educational and administrative abilities and experience required.
• Must be able to be approved by the Kaweah Health department of GME, appointed in good standing to the medical staff, hold an unrestricted medical license to practice in the state of California, and obtain appropriate faculty appointment in the medical school.
• Leadership capabilities, including excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Requisite specialty expertise and competence in clinical care and teaching abilities.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of fellowship training related to education (including Toxicology, Ultrasound, CC, Peds, or Education) strongly preferred.
• Core faculty experience at an ACGME-accredited EM Residency program may be considered in lieu of fellowship training.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a GME medical student director, Emergency Medicine core faculty, and medical student clerkship director.
• Report to the Designated Institutional Officer (DIO) for medical student director responsibilities.
• Collaborate with program directors from residency programs to provide support for their undergraduate medical education programs.
• Foster pipeline programs to grow the physician workforce in the region.
• Set and maintain expectations for medical student responsibilities in patient care activities.
• Develop mentoring and assistance programs for medical students.
• Advise and mentor students in the residency application process, assisting in recommendation letter writing where appropriate.
• Mentor residents as educators and supervisors.
• Provide and coordinate didactic teaching for medical students.
• Act as a liaison with partnering medical schools.
• Define and guide the educational and operational goals of the Emergency Medicine medical student clerkship.
• Report to the Emergency Medicine Program Director for core faculty responsibilities.
• Work with chief residents to develop clear and equitable shift schedules for rotating students.
• Provide performance feedback to Emergency Medicine rotating students and assist with corrective action when needed.
• Act as a mentor and educator to fellow faculty and residents to enhance the quality of teaching and guidance that rotating students receive.
• Contribute to the recruiting efforts of the residency by developing relationships with Emergency Medicine interest groups at nearby medical schools, attending residency fairs and other recruiting events, and helping craft the message delivered to applicants considering our program.

Benefits

• Superior Health Plan Options
• Dental, Vision, HSA, life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Partnership models allows a K-1 status pay structure, allowing high tax deductions
• Extraordinary 401K Plan with high tax reduction and faster balance growth
• Eligible to receive an Annual Profit Distribution/yearly cash bonus
• EAP and travel assistance included
• Student loan refinancing discounts
• Purpose-driven culture focused on improving the lives of our patients, communities, and employees

What This Job Offers

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