Inpatient Academic Hospitalist / Clinical Education Director

Cottage Health seeks a Director, Clinical Care/Internal Medicine Residency. The Director, Clinical Care/Internal Medicine Residency 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; E-Value 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, including 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