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FTE: 1.000000
Shift: Days
Location: 401 BUILDING
Summary:
The Program Director has accountability for the establishment, monitoring, and evaluation of the clinical care delivered within the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Riverside Medical Center. With administrative assistance, has accountability for providing an educational experience that will enable resident physicians to obtain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to practice their chosen specialty independently and competently. The Program Director shall develop, modify and conduct the residency program in accordance with and as defined by the program requirements of its Residency Review Committee (RRC) in order to ensure the highest quality education and to maintain continuing full program accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The Program Director reports to the Designated Institutional Official.
Experience/Education:
Master's Degree in Business Administration or Hospital Administration required
Responsibilities:
The program director must have responsibility, authority and accountability for: administration and operations; teaching and scholarly activity; trainee recruitment and selection, evaluation, and promotion of trainees and disciplinary action; supervision of trainees; and trainee education in the context of patient care. With administrative assistance, the program director must:
1. Be a role model of professionalism.
2. 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.
3. Administer and maintain a learning environment conducive to educating the trainees in each of the ACGME Competency domains.
4. Develop and oversee a process to evaluate candidates prior to approval as a program faculty member for participation in the training program education and at least annually thereafter.
5. Have the authority to approve program faculty members for participation in the training program education at all sites.
6. Have the authority to remove program faculty members from participation in the training program education at all sites.
7. Have the authority to remove trainees from supervision interactions and/or learning environments that do not meet the standards of the program.
8. Submit accurate and complete information required and requested by the DIO, GMEC and ACGME.
9. Provide applicants who are offered an interview with information related to the applicant’s eligibility for the relevant specialty board examination.
10. Provide a learning and working environment in which trainees have the opportunity to raise concerns and provide feedback in a confidential manner as appropriate, without fear of intimidation or retaliation.
11. Ensure the program’s compliance with the Sponsoring Institution’s policies and procedures related to grievances and due process.
12. Ensure the program’s compliance with the Sponsoring Institution’s policies and procedures for due process when action is taken to suspend or dismiss, not to promote, or not to renew the appointment of a resident.
13. Ensure the program’s compliance with the Sponsoring Institution’s policies and procedures on employment and non-discrimination.
14. Provide verification of an individual trainee’s completion upon the trainee’s request, within 30 days.
15. Document verification of program completion for all graduating trainees within 30 days.
16. Obtain review and approval of the Sponsoring Institution’s DIO before submitting information or requests to the ACGME, as required in the Institutional Requirements and outlined in the ACGME Program Director’s Guide to the Common Program Requirements.
17. Provide access to timely confidential counseling and psychological support services to residents.
18. Evaluate and modify situations that demand excessive service or that consistently produce undesirable stress on residents.
19. Ensure that residents’ service responsibilities are limited to patients for whom the teaching service has diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility.
Operations Management
1. In conjunction with the management staff and physicians within the Program:
2. Ensure resident’s appropriate and timely documentation and coding;
3. Serve as a resource in the resolution of performance and/or personality issues related to the Internal Medicine Residency program;
4. Identify and assist residents with personal problems or physical/mental health issues that impact on their education;
5. Teach medical students and residents;
6. Ensure that at least 80% of graduates averaged over a rolling three year period take and pass the American Board of Osteopathic Medicine or American Board of Internal Medicine Program examination.
7. Participate in research and quality improvement activities, including mentoring students, and residents;
8. Participate in educational activities which may include outpatient teaching, outpatient clinics, morning reports, board review, journal club and M&Ms;
9. Monitor patient care, resident interaction with staff and physicians, develop and implement action plans;
Participation in Meetings
1. Meetings with GME Department staff, trainees, faculty; the DIO, GMEC, Clinical Competency Committee, Program Evaluation Committees and CLER Committees as assigned.
2. Participate in professional association or other educational conferences as requested, and if available.
Education:
Essential:
* MASTERS DEGREE
Riverside Healthcare is revolutionizing care using leading-edge technology to diagnose and treat patients. We are ranked top in the nation for performance in neurosurgery, orthopedics, and heart surgery and have also been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics seven times. Riverside is nationally recognized for our specialty programs in obstetrics, trauma, oncology, rehabilitation, geriatrics, occupational health, psychiatric services, and treatment of alcohol and chemical dependency, as well as patient safety. We combine innovation and convenience at state-of-the-art facilities located in communities throughout the greater Kankakee area.
Riverside Medical Center proves that truly progressive medicine is being delivered in Chicago's southwest suburbs and East Central Illinois. Join a team that is not only concerned with providing the best care possible but also with offering a work environment of advancement and growth. Riverside is a place that embraces a culture where opinions count and dedications is respected, where superior performance is rewarded with competitive salaries and excellent benefits.
Other information:
Exposure to:
Chemicals: Refer to MSDS Sheets
Video Display Terminals: Average
Blood and Body Fluids: Minimal risk due to limited patient contact.
TB or Airborn Pathogens:Minimal risk due to limited patient contact.
Sensory requirements (speech, vision, smell, hearing, touch):
Speech: Needed to communicate with staff, doctors, patients, families and other hospital personnel. Needed for training/presentations, telephone communication, and facilitating meetings.
Vision: Needed for computer entry, read memos and literature, observation of patient function and employee performance .
Smell: Needed for electrical/fire safety.
Hearing: Needed for telephone communication, meetings and listening to employee/patient/family member concerns.
Touch: Needed for writing, computer entry, manipulate equipment/tools.
Activity/Lifting Requirements:
Average Hours per Week:50
Shift: Days
Percentage of time during the normal workday the employee is required to:
Sit: 30%
Twist: 2%
Stand: 30%
Crawl: 0%
Walk: 30%
Kneel: 0%
Lift: 2%
Drive: 0%
Squat: 2%
Climb: 0%
Bend: 2%
Reach above shoulders: 2% 45-90degree
The weight required to be lifted each normal workday according to the continuum described below:
Up to 10 lbs: Occasionally
Up to 20 lbs: Occasionally
Up to 35 lbs: Occasionally
Up to 50 lbs: Not Required
Up to 75 lbs: Not Required
Up to 100 lbs: Not Required
Over 100 lbs: Not Required
Describe and explain the lifting and carrying requirements. (Example: the distance material is carried; how high material is lifted, etc.):
Lifting involves minimal lifting of office supplies and may assist with patient care.
Maximum consecutive time (minutes) during the normal workday for each activity:
Sit: 120
Twist: