MEDICAL DIRECTOR at The Institute for Family Health

SUMMARY:

Responsible for the overall clinical management of the practice and programs assigned to the practice as above, including direct supervision of all providers - Medical and monitoring the practice and on site programs for meeting the organizations productivity goals, quality performance measures, regulatory compliance, and research initiatives. Responsible for maintaining a clinical practice at the assigned site. Allocation of administrative and clinical time is dependent upon the size and range of programs at the site

REQUIREMENTS:

Management:

• Direct supervision of all providers who are assigned to this practice as their primary site
• Performs Bi-annual evaluation of all providers who are assigned to this practice as their primary site, and their annual competency evaluations
• Organizes monthly meetings with providers with documented minutes of meeting
• Participates in monthly office management meeting with nurse manager and office manager of site
• Monitors monthly: Provider Productivity, Provider Quality Performance (Peer Review and Clinical Registries), Provider Evaluation at practice sites, Regulatory Compliance of the practice sites (Joint Commission, NCQA), include review of Open encounters, and attached providers in box for review of compliance of results in box
• Supervise the clinical performance of any training programs and trainees in collaboration with training program directors (e.g. Residency Program, Medical Student Rotations) at these sites when appropriate.
• Supervise the clinical performance or impact of any research programs operating at these sites when appropriate
• Collaborates with Nursing, Social Work and Administrative managers of the practice in the hiring and evaluation of practice staff, (and in reviewing of all patient complaints, incidents, assists in the EOC rounds of the practice)
• Communicates with their supervising regional medical directors regarding needs or requests of providers or practice staff
• Attends regional medical director meetings Attends the Clinical Director’s Group (CDG) meetings

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Maintaining an active medical practice of assigned clinical sessions
• Demonstrates competency in following areas:

Medical Knowledge:

• Demonstrates good fundamental knowledge of established clinical practice and use of Evidence Based Medicine
• Applicant has sound clinical judgment.
• Applicant consults appropriately.
• Keeps current with the medical literature

Clinical Practice:

• Provides compassionate, appropriate and effective patient care
• Available to patients and staff
• Maintains good quality medical record
• Demonstrates good clinical/technical skills

Interpersonal and Communication Skills:

• Establishes and maintains professional, courteous, and respectful relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other members of the health care team
• Demonstrates an understanding and sensitivity to diversity and a responsible attitude towards his/her patients, profession and society

Professionalism:

• Committed to continuous professional development (CME), and ethical practice
• Fulfils CME requirements
• Timely Medical Record Completion
• Compliance with open encounter policy
• Timely response to MyChart (patient portal) requests
• Compliance with IFH Policy and Regulations

Systems-Based Practice:

• Demonstrates and understanding of health care systems and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve and optimize health care
• Advocates for quality of care on behalf of patients and the organization
• Demonstrates appropriate use of health system resources

Practiced-Based Learning and Improvements:

• Uses scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care
• Demonstrates acceptable use of organization’s best practice alerts, quality improvement initiatives, core measures compliance, and use of EBM
• Demonstrates knowledge of CQI activities at IFH

Teaching and Training:

• Precepts residents, medical students, and other health professional trainees as appropriate
• Participation in Beth Israel Residency Faculty Meetings as appropriate

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate of an accredited medical school and an accredited residency program.

• NY State Medical License

• Board Admissible to respective specialty board

• Current BCLS

• Current DEA Certificate

• Demonstrates effective supervisory skills of clinicians

• Demonstrates superior clinical skills

• Demonstrates effective interpersonal, communication, organizational, and conflict management skills

• Demonstrates basic computer skills

• Demonstrates ability to organize care/ activities of multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Previous clinical supervisory experience preferred.