Family Medicine Residency Program Director

Family Medicine Residency Program Director

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At Samaritan Healthcare we are dedicated to providing healthcare services to the community that we serve. We are committed to providing the very best work environment for our professionals and the very best care to our patients. The Program Director is a physician position and has authority and accountability for the Family Medicine residency program located at Samaritan Health, in Moses Lake, Washington.

This includes compliance with all applicable ACGME and other program requirements. The Program Director has responsibility, authority, and accountability for program administration and operations, teaching and scholarly activity, resident recruitment and selection, evaluation, and promotion of residents, and disciplinary action, supervision of residents, and resident education in the context of patient care.

In this unique role, the position is directly involved in the development of a Family Medicine residency program. In addition to the responsibility for the creation of ACGME program application and supporting documents, this person will develop the infrastructure, curriculum, rotations, and relationships for a robust training environment in Family Medicine.

The position is a combination of administrative duties (0.4 FTE) as Program Director and direct patient care within Samaritan Health (0.6 FTE). Once residents start the program, these FTE amounts will be changed to 0.5 FTE each.

This is a full-time salary exempt position.

• Identify core faculty and teaching faculty.
• Identify clinical partners / participating sites and work with the Sponsoring Institution in solidifying agreements with these entities. Identify gaps in clinical needs and education.
• Develop the residency continuity clinic and required resources.
• Develop Mission and Vision of program in line with the Sponsoring Institution.
• Develop curriculum and didactics according to need and ACGME requirements.
• Develop schedules for the continuity clinic and resident rotations.
• Assist in the recruitment and hiring of the Program Administrator.
• Create a faculty development plan for the program.
• Create required policies and procedures and obtain approval from the GMEC.
• Complete the ACGME new program application and assure alignment with the Sponsoring Institution and ACGME requirements.
• Support resident recruitment efforts including resident interviews, rank list discussions and Match participation.
• Prepare the program for review by the ACGME for accreditation.

• Administration and operations
• Teaching and scholarly activity
• Trainee recruitment and selection
• Curriculum and the clinical learning environment
• Evaluation and promotion of trainees
• Supervision of trainees, including clinical and educational work hours
• Faculty, as teachers, mentors, advisors, coaches, and role models
• Program management (continuous quality improvement, program evaluations, accreditation, use of program resources)

The program director will establish a leadership team to assist in the accomplishment of program goals. The leadership team may include physician and non-physician personnel with varying levels of education, training, and experience.

The program director must ensure initial and continuing accreditation of the program by being familiar with and complying with the ACGME Institutional Requirements, Common Program Requirements, and Specialty-Specific Program Requirements, as well as ACGME and Review Committee Policies and Procedures and Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine (ESFCOM) GME Policies and Procedures.

The program director is expected to attend and participate in national and ESFCOM educational opportunities, the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) meetings, and specialty society educational programs.

• be a role model of professionalism;
• design and conduct the program in a fashion consistent with the needs of the community, the mission(s) of the Sponsoring Institution, and the mission(s) of the program;
• administer and maintain a learning environment conducive to educating the trainees in each of the ACGME Competency domains;
• develop and oversee a process to evaluate candidates prior to approval as program faculty members for participation in the program education and at least annually thereafter;
• have the authority to approve program faculty members for participation in the training program education at all sites;
• have the authority to remove program faculty members from participation in the training program education at all sites;
• have the authority to remove trainees from supervising interactions and/or learning environments that do not meet the standards of the program;
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