Job Description
Job Description Academic/Faculty Duties. For the academic, faculty, teaching, and/or research services provided. Physician will provide academic services to IHCHS in conformance with the following: Teaching Faculty: Education is defined broadly to include dissemination of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to trainees, faculty members, clinicians, staff, colleagues, patients, and the public within or external to the institution. Education includes teaching activities; learner assessment; curriculum development; mentoring, coaching, advising, and supervising; and educational leadership and administration. Education primarily occurs during a clinician’s clinically productive time. Curriculum development may be considered both scholarship and educational activity. For the purposes of assessment of performance as Teaching Faculty, educational leadership may be considered both administration and educational activity, and patient education may be considered both clinical practice advancement and educational activity. Academic Duties other duties that may apply directly to an Academic Physician – Teaching Faculty role: Clinical Investigation/Health Services Research . Investigation involves efforts by the faculty member that generate or advance development of new knowledge. These could include such activities as clinical trials, quality improvement, health services research, translational laboratory research, implementation science, health informatics research, and supporting educational activities. Projects relating to education of clinical care, care delivery, process of care implementation, family and community engagement, pathophysiology, mechanisms of disease, education, administration/service, and global health can all be areas for effective and excellent investigation. Team science, clinical care, collaboration, technology commercialization, education, community engagement, advocacy, inclusion, sustainability, web-based dissemination, administration/service, and global health can all be areas for effective and excellent investigation. Clinical Practice Advancement . Clinical practice advancement is defined broadly to include direct patient care, development of algorithms, care process models, protocols, or templates; development of decision support tools to improve patient care; participation in quality improvement projects or programs and adherence to key performance indicators, monitoring of metrics related quality/safety/cost. Quality improvement projects and development of protocols may be considered both clinical practice advancement and clinical investigation if the results are disseminated by peer reviewed publication. Administration/Service . Administration includes leadership and work within and outside institution on committees; participation in organizational efforts to meet strategic goals; and program or unit leadership. Some Academic Physician – Teaching Faculty members who execute on administrative work will have program leadership roles such as Program Director or Associate Program Director. Work expectations for the Academic Physician – Teaching Faculty leadership role of Program Director are outlined in the ARP Committee’s. Administration/Service will often overlap with clinical practice advancement, investigation, scholarship, and education. Teaching Faculty will provide educator services during their clinical working time in conformance with the following: Teach and mentor medical students, residents, and fellows, as measured by student evaluation scores, Program Director feedback, and ARP committee review. Aid Program Director in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of all medical and administrative activities of the Program; integrating the work of the Program with the other divisions of the Hospital to assure fulfillment of all Program accreditation requirements promulgated by the ACGME, any relevant Residency Review Committee, and any relevant specialty-based accreditation/governance committee. In cooperation with the Sponsoring Institution, Designated Institutional Official, and Program Director, execute on the Program mission, objectives, measures of effectiveness, and strategic planning for the ongoing growth and development of the Program. In collaboration with the Program Director, design and execute an effective curriculum and evaluation process to ensure that trainees receive appropriate teaching, clinic, and rotation experiences, and evaluation. Assist in the development and execution of quality management programs, review clinical records and determine if appropriate treatment is being given. Serve as a role model for clinical care, continuous and comprehensive care in the office, hospital and other community sett