Inpatient Academic Hospitalist / Clinical Education Director

Cottage Health seeks an Inpatient Academic Hospitalist/ Clinical Education Director. The Inpatient Academic Hospitalist/ Clinical Education Director teaches, monitors, and mentors Internal Medicine Residents as part of the Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Residency Program at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

Responsibilities include

Clinical: a. supervision of care of patients on the Internal Medicine Residents service, including weekdays and nights, and participation in night weekend/holiday call schedule; b. clinical teaching concerning those patients (i.e., rounds, beside teaching, resource); c. supervision/teaching of medical students on the Internal Medicine service; d.

supervising/teaching appropriate procedures to Internal Medicine Residents and medical students; oversight of procedural certification process; e. participation in morning report and outpatient Internal Medicine clinic supervision; g.

Overview

and general oversight of clinical care provided by Internal Medicine Residents to patients for whom the resident service is responsible. Curriculum: maintenance, updating, integration into conference schedule, implementation, monitoring usage; monitoring of elective rotations. May assist in conference planning/scheduling: resident noon conferences, chest conference, journal clubs, Medical Grand Rounds, CPC, M&M conferences, other Department of Medicine conferences.

Participation on occasion as discussant at noon conferences. May participate in any of the following areas of educational focus: a) Critical reading and interpretation of the medical literature including study design and statistical methods; b) Teaching understanding of laboratory methods and interpretation of results; c) Medical system problem reporting and resolution; d) Teaching understanding of the cost of medical care including diagnostic, therapeutic, and administrative factors; e) Teaching metabolic mechanisms and pharmacology for internal medicine; f) Teaching about our place in evolutionary biology; g) Teaching pathophysiological and biochemical correlations to clinic diseases.

Participation in the Medical Education Advisory Committee and Clinical Competence Committee. May participate in, lead, monitor or mentor the following: development and use of promotion criteria for Internal Medicine Residents; counseling of and feedback to the Internal Medicine Residents and evaluation of resulting progress; Med.

Hub system of on-line resident and program evaluation; recruitment, assessment, interviews of medical student applicants; oversight of electronic/print teaching resources; preparation for their Medical Grand Rounds presentations; Internal Medicine Resident Board Review; individual teaching/mentoring of problem areas for identified residents, Internal Medicine Residency web site; instruction in medical informatics; development of quality assurance projects for the Internal Medicine Residents; other activities as determined and agreed to by the Associate Program Director, Program Director, and other key faculty; Internal Medicine residents research projects and other scholarly activities.

Participation in administrative efforts such as policies, schedules, budget, ACGME reviews, Internal Reviews. Participation in “core faculty” ad hoc meetings. Participate in Internal Medicine Faculty Development workshops. All job qualifications listed indicate the minimum level necessary to perform this job proficiently.

Required: Completion of Internal Medicine Residency 2 years of experience, ideally including teaching responsibilities or active participation as Internal Medicine Teaching Attending in a Residency program. Doctor of Medicine (MD) Physician's unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of California. DEA Controlled Substance Registration Medical Staff Privileges Approval ABIM Internal Medicine Certification