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:

1. Clinical: a. Supervision of care of patients on the Internal Medicine Resident service, including weekdays and nights, and participation in a night weekend/holiday call schedule b. Clinical teaching concerning those patients (i.e., attending/team rounds, bedside teaching) 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, noon conferences, medicine grand rounds and other academic conferences f. Overview and general oversight of clinical care provided by Internal Medicine Residents to patients for whom the resident service is responsible.
2. May participate clinical curriculum design: maintenance, updating, integration into conference schedule, implementation, monitoring usage; monitoring of elective rotations.
3. Assist in conference planning/scheduling: resident noon conferences, specialty case conferences, journal clubs, Medical Grand Rounds, M&M conferences, other Department of Medicine conferences. Participation on occasion as discussant at noon conferences.
4. May participate in educational activities that support resident and student development in:
   1. Evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal of medical literature.
   2. Diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making.
   3. Patient safety, quality improvement, and systems-based practice.
   4. High-value, cost-conscious care.
   5. Social determinants of health, population health, and health equity.
   6. Interprofessional teamwork, communication, and care coordination.
   7. Professionalism, wellness, and lifelong learning.
5. Participation in the Medical Education Advisory Committee and Clinical Competence Committee.
6. 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; electronic 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 determined and agreed to by the Associate Program Director, Program Director, and other key faculty; Internal Medicine residents research projects and other scholarly activities.
7. Participation in administrative efforts such as policies, schedules, budget, ACGME reviews, internal reviews. Participation in "core faculty" ad hoc meetings, including weekly huddles when on site.
8. Involvement in Internal Medicine Faculty Development workshops.