Ultrasound Fellowship Director

UPMC•Harrisburg, PA

About The Position

• Oversees recruiting of highly qualified fellows • Works with administrative staff to submit EUFAC application for accreditation • Responds to all EUFAC requests pertaining to application • Collaborates with ED U/S director on operations • Assists in hiring additional faculty to support the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Fellowship and • Ensures individual faculty members meet or exceed ongoing requirements such as scholarly activity • In addition to application ensures all other EUFAC requirements are monitored and maintained • Ensures the quality of patient care provided by residents and faculty • Serves as a clinical and professional role model • Participates in budgeting process • Participates in external academic and educational programs to improve the program • Represents the program at internal and external meetings • Attends GMEC and appropriate sub-committee meetings • Keeps EM Program Director and Chair apprised of key program issues and makes recommendations to resolve problems • Ensures fair implementation of policies and procedures including grievance and due process • Monitors work environment for residents and fellow well being • Ensures program meets all regulatory requirements at all times About South Central Pennsylvania • Features both rural and suburban living and boasts an abundance of sports, arts, cultural events and entertainment. Close to historically significant areas such as Gettysburg and world-famous Hershey Park and Hershey’s Chocolate World. • Offers top-rated public schools, blue-ribbon private schools, and some of Pennsylvania’s top colleges and universities. Area school districts are consistently ranked in the top 20%25 of Pennsylvania. With affordable homes—a composite cost of living index of 99.7, compared to 126.5 in Philadelphia—it’s a great place to grow a career and family. • Listed among Forbes.com “America’s Most Livable Cities,” and ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Cities to Live” in 2017, we are a 2–3 hour drive away from New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. About UPMC Central PA UPMC Central PA is a nationally recognized leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered healthcare services in central Pennsylvania and surrounding rural communities. Its more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals and approximately 11,000 employees serve a 10-county area at outpatient facilities and eight acute care hospitals with 1,360 licensed beds: Carlisle, Community Osteopathic, Hanover, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lititz, Memorial, and West Shore.

Requirements

EM Board certification
Completion of an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and/or training and experience that is acceptable to EUFAC
Holds Focused Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound by ABEM, or be board eligible, or qualifications that are acceptable to EUFAC
Expertise in emergency ultrasound education; specifically – curriculum development and dissemination and experience as an educator at the regional and national level
Has demonstrated scholarship in clinical ultrasound with publication of original ultrasound research or review articles in peer reviewed journals
Experience with safety, quality and security of images, documentation and coding
Possesses a highly collaborative and innovative leadership style

Responsibilities

Oversees recruiting of highly qualified fellows
Works with administrative staff to submit EUFAC application for accreditation
Responds to all EUFAC requests pertaining to application
Collaborates with ED U/S director on operations
Assists in hiring additional faculty to support the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Fellowship
Ensures individual faculty members meet or exceed ongoing requirements such as scholarly activity
Ensures all other EUFAC requirements are monitored and maintained
Ensures the quality of patient care provided by residents and faculty
Serves as a clinical and professional role model
Participates in budgeting process
Participates in external academic and educational programs to improve the program
Represents the program at internal and external meetings
Attends GMEC and appropriate sub-committee meetings
Keeps EM Program Director and Chair apprised of key program issues and makes recommendations to resolve problems
Ensures fair implementation of policies and procedures including grievance and due process
Monitors work environment for residents and fellow well being
Ensures program meets all regulatory requirements at all times