Faculty- Family Medicine Residency Program Director; Savannah Campus

Job Title

Job Title: Open Rank Faculty
- Family Medicine Residency Program Director (Savannah Campus)

Location: Candler Hospital

Oversight of Education - 25%

• Oversee and ensure the quality of didactic and clinical education in all sites that participate in the program.
• Review, update, and revise didactic and clinical educational curricula as needed.
• Select and oversee work of associate program directors; evaluate their GME‑related performance annually; enter evaluations to track and monitor performance.
• Approve a local director at each participating site who is accountable for resident education; comply with GME protocol for approval of training sites.
• Approve the selection of core faculty and their continuation based on annual evaluations of performance; maintain an accurate listing of all faculty participating in the program for accreditation purposes (through the ACGME Accreditation Data System (ADS)).
• Complete an annual program evaluation and document it annually; establish and monitor action plans through completion.
• Adopt appropriate evaluation tools and ensure evaluations of residents by faculty are completed on a timely basis.
• Provide each resident with documented, semiannual, competency‑based evaluation of performance, providing the evaluation both in‑person and online; at the completion of the program, provide the residents with a final summative evaluation that also documents the resident’s performance during the final period of education, and verify that the resident has demonstrated sufficient competence to enter practice without direct supervision.

Participation in GME Governance - 25%

• Manage GME staff in the program office; ensure protected time for Training Program Administrators to attend monthly meetings.
• Attend monthly GME Program Directors Advisory Committee meetings.
• Participate in one or more GME Special Reviews of residency/fellowship program(s) and associated meetings as assigned by DIO.
• Serve as mentor for new program director(s).
• Comply with the Medical College of Georgia’s written policies and procedures governing GME, including those specified in the Institutional Requirements; adhere to the terms of academic action, grievance, and due process procedures; notify the office of GME of any academic actions pertaining to residents and collaborate with MCG GME on development of corrective action plans.

Compliance with Regulatory Requirements affecting GME - 25%

• Provide accurate information on resident schedules and rotations in support of GME reimbursement from Medicare, the Veterans Administration, and others by ensuring correct and timely entry of schedules and reports pertinent to quarterly rotation data submission.
• Ensure faculty document their supervision of residents/fellows, in accordance with regulatory bodies, in the medical record.
• Create resident schedules in compliance with duty hour regulations established by MCG and the ACGME.
• Ensure residents obtain identification numbers required for ordering tests, labs, and medications (e.g., NPI and HCS account for narcotic prescribing).

Maintenance of Accreditation - 25%

• Monitor resident supervision at all participating sites; ensure supervisors provide explicit written descriptions of supervisory lines of responsibility for the care of patients to all faculty and residents; provide residents with prompt, reliable systems for communicating and interacting with supervisory physicians.
• Establish and maintain a standing Clinical Competency Committee to assess resident achievement of milestones on a twice‑yearly basis, at minimum; maintain minutes of the meetings; enter milestone assessments in an online reporting system.
• Monitor resident record of all required index cases and/or procedures and ensure data is entered in ADS (if required by the ACGME) or online; adjust schedules or assignments as required to ensure residents achieve adequate case volumes; establish guidelines for procedural supervision that include assessing indications, contraindications, anatomical landmarks, technical skills, anticipating and managing complications, and obtaining informed consent.
• Implement and monitor policies and procedures…