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; MedHub 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 de...