Medical Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• MD or DO degree.
• Significant combination of clinical and administrative experience.
• Board certification in a specialty.
• At least five years of progressively responsible leadership experience, with proven leadership and management skills.
• Ability to work in a highly complex academic medical center within a large integrated delivery system and navigate matrixed relationships.
• Strong communication and team-building skills.
• Exemplary interpersonal communication skills for effective interaction with senior management and physicians on sensitive political and confidential issues.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within the Mass General Brigham system, particularly at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, is strongly preferred.
• An advanced business or healthcare administration degree is desirable but not required.

Responsibilities

• Build and support workflows to safely transfer appropriate patient populations from academic medical centers to Faulkner, Newton-Wellesley, and Salem community hospitals.
• Track Mass General Brigham dashboard metrics and develop improvement strategies for total length of stay and Discharge Before Noon.
• Align local efforts with length-of-stay target goals in the High Reliability Organization dashboard.
• Support rollout of clinical pathways implemented by quality and safety teams, analyze adherence data, and deploy mitigation strategies when benchmarks are not met.
• Engage Unit Medical Directors across MGH, BWH, and Faulkner Hospital to pilot initiatives and understand local clinical workflows.
• Coordinate with Emergency Department leadership, nursing leaders, case management, and social work teams.
• Work with the Patient Transfer and Access Center, admitting, and the MGB Office of the Chief Medical Officer on inpatient capacity initiatives.
• Partner with Department of Medicine and external department consult services to optimize communication and service efficiency.
• Support the Department of Medicine Vice Chair of Inpatient Operations in evaluating existing structures and piloting integrated clinical care models across academic medical centers.
• Partner with directors, project managers, and analysts embedded within the Vice Chair’s team.
• Represent the Department of Medicine at leadership assemblies at the Vice Chair’s request, including PTAC, Home Hospital, Complex Care Reviews, and DOM Quality Meetings.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Career advancement opportunities
• Differentials, premiums, and bonuses as applicable
• Recognition programs