The Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado School of Medicine are seeking a nationally recognized clinician educator and transformative leader to direct its Emergency Medicine Residency Program and further its national and international preeminence. Founded in 1974, the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine is an exemplary four-year training program with 68 total residents, producing graduates with outstanding clinical acumen and leadership qualities who are furthering the specialty of Emergency Medicine. As Colorado's sole emergency medicine training program, the residency functions as an affiliated program, drawing on the educational resources and experiences of four metro-area health care institutions - an urban Level I safety-net system (Denver Health), a tertiary care Level I university-based hospital (the University of Colorado Hospital), a private/Kaiser-affiliated hospital (St. Joseph Hospital), and a tertiary care Level I pediatric hospital (Children's Hospital of Colorado). The Program Director will be responsible for administering and maintaining a world-class educational environment whose foundation is an outstanding clinical experience that encourages academic curiosity, graded responsibility, and ultimately clinical independence. The Director must have extensive experience with, and commitment to, education, demonstrated achievement in education scholarship and innovation, facility with ACGME policies and procedures, the ability to work with fellowship directors, and demonstrated skills in selection, evaluation, mentorship, and oversight of emergency medicine residents. The Program Director oversees the residency budget; works with hospital leadership; and maintains relationships with clinical partners, especially the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
This faculty position will report directly to the Director of Service for Emergency Medicine at Denver Health and have a strong, collaborative reporting relationship with our School of Medicine's Departmental Chair. As a full-time academic faculty position, based at the sponsoring institution for the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine, there is a heavy emphasis and expectations of scholarship/research, teaching, and education. All faculty are expected to contribute and promote in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Denver Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine are profoundly committed to diversity in our workforce. This position will be a key member of our department and is expected to take an active role in our commitment to providing our diverse patient population with the best care. To achieve this, we dedicate significant resources as a team to incorporate cultural responsiveness, equity, and inclusion, finding innovative ways to meet the needs of our patients. Applicants from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. As a pivotal member of our medical workforce, ideal applicants must be passionate about creating an environment where a richness of ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives from all staff are embraced with respect, kindness, and open minds.
Please apply by submitting your CV with a cover letter indicating your interest and highlighting your intended contributions to our efforts to diversify our thoughts and workforce. Submissions can be sent to:
Aaron Ortiz, Manager, Provider Recruitment () and John Kendall, MD (John.Kendall@dhha.org), Search Committee Chair.
The Program Director has authority and accountability for the operation of the program and has broad responsibilities that encompass every aspect of postgraduate medical education training. This includes oversight of
* Curriculum and evaluation as well as the learning environment
* Faculty as teachers, coaches, mentors, advisors and role models
* Supervision of residents and fellows, including duty hours, and
* Program management (e.g., program evaluation and improvement, communications, ACGME accreditation, program resources).
The Program Director must ensure continuing accreditation of the program by being familiar with and complying with the ACGME Institutional Requirements Common Program Requirements(CPR) and Emergency Medicine Program Requirements, as well as ACGME and Review Committee Policies and Procedures and the CU SOM GME Policies and Procedures. The Program Director should monitor his or her specialty Review Committee activities, and be familiar with the ACGME Program Directors' "Virtual Handbook"
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years of participation as a core faculty member in an ACGME-accredited emergency medicine residency program and graduate medical education administrative and leadership experience.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Previous educational programmatic leadership/administrative experience, strong administrative and team building skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Willing to combine administrative and teaching responsibilities. Compensation will be based on experience: $262,454 - $314,984
Essential Duties
25% Provides administrative oversight of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, including overseeing all program activities and ensuring compliance with all ACGME and other regulatory requirements (representing the program at the Denver Health and CU School of Medicine GME Committees)
15%Oversees the curriculum and didactics to assure cohesiveness, appropriate supervision, and graded responsibility
5%Oversees resident recruitment, including applicant review and interview process
10% Approves the final resident schedules, final advancement of residents from year to year, and the completion of residency
5% Approves all moonlighting, and any changes for individual residents within a set curriculum to ensure compliance with ACGME and ABEM
5% Performs entrance and exit interviews along with the Associate Program Directors responsible for the first year and fourth year classes
5% Evaluates the Associate Program Directors and provides these evaluations to the Denver Health Director of Service and the Chair of the Department
5% Develops the budget and approves all money transfers from the budget
5% Responds to all scheduling issues pertaining to any resident rotation sites
5% Develops maternity leave agreements and approves all maternity leave and leaves of absence
5% Chairs the Program Advisory Committee
5% Leads monthly leadership meetings and quarterly residency-wide business meetings in collaboration with Associate Program Directors and residents
3% Plans the Awards Ceremony and Graduation in collaboration with Associate Directors and Coordinators
* Demonstrate exceptional patient care management; by modeling appropriate customer care relationships, providing adequate supervision of hand-offs, call schedules and other patient- related activities at the various training sites where their trainees rotate.
* Demonstrate a continuing commitment to excellence and scholarship, particularly medical education scholarship and administration.
* Articulate and promote a program philosophy of patient-centered and learner-focused culture, consistent with the ACGME general competencies.
* Administer the training program with enthusiasm, commitment, compassion and innovation.
* Adhere to high ethical and moral standards.
* Demonstrate and practice the core humanistic values -honesty, integrity, caring, compassion, altruism, empathy, respect for others, trustworthiness.
* Exercise accountability.
* Accept ambiguities and the challenge of unexpected complexities and uncertainties
* Encourage trainees to be actively involved in educational aspects of the program.
* Respect and protect confidential information.
* Recognize personal competence limits.
* Work with colleagues in a manner that best serves trainees' interests.
* Respect the trainees' and faculty's cultural beliefs and practices that might be diverse from your own.
* Subordinate individual interests to those of the trainees and the program.
* Establish goals that build the program's educational culture.
* Engage with the relevant specialty society or national program directors' group.
* Maintain a teaching portfolio which should be linked to the ACGME general competencies.
* Strive continually to be an active learner in the program and share own scholarship through presentations and publications.
* Remain current with evolving program requirements - institutional, clinical specialty and those involving relevant national organizations.
* Remain current and anticipate trends in GME
The program director must ensure that learning objectives of the program are accomplished through an appropriate blend of supervised patient care responsibilities, clinical teaching, and didactic educational events. The learning objectives must not be compromised by excessive reliance on residents to fulfill non-physician service obligations. The curriculum must also advance trainees' knowledge of the basic principles of research, including how research is conducted, evaluated, explained to patients, and applied to patient care. In addition, the program director must ensure that the clinical responsibilities of each trainee are based on appropriate PGY-level, patient safety, trainee education, severity and complexity of patient illness/condition and available support services. Finally, the program director must oversee and ensure the quality of didactic and clinical education in all sites that participate in the program.
The Program Director must appoint and work in collaboration with the Program Evaluation and Advisory Committee (PEAC) and the Clinical Competency Committees (CCC) to achieve excellence in the training program.The program director is encouraged to incorporate basics of adult learning theory into the curriculum and apply these theories when developing trainee learning experiences. In addition, the program director, in collaboration with key faculty, should provide training to residents in how to teach medical students and peers, consistent with the Emergency Medicine Milestones.
The Learning Environment. The program director must administer and maintain an educational environment conducive to educating trainees in each of the ACGME competency areas.
The program director has responsibility to:Faculty Oversight
The program director must approve the selection of program faculty as appropriate, and ensure there are a sufficient number of faculty with documented qualifications to instruct and supervise all trainees at each training location. Faculty members must demonstrate an understanding and acceptance of their personal role in (a) assurance of the safety and welfare of patients entrusted to their care; (b) provision of patient- and family-centered care; (c) assurance of their fitness for duty; (d) management of their time before, during, and after clinical assignments; (e) recognition of impairment, including illness and fatigue, in themselves and in their peers; (f) attention to lifelong learning; (g) the monitoring of their patient care performance improvement indicators; and, (h) demonstration of responsiveness to patient needs that supersedes self-interest.The program director has the responsibility to:
* Ensure that faculty evaluate trainee performance in a timely manner during each rotation or similar educational assignment (at least quarterly), and document this evaluation at completion of the assignment.The program director has the responsibility to:
* Monitor trainee supervision at all participating sites.ACGME requirements.
* Adjust schedules as necessary to mitigate excessive service demands and/or fatigue.Program Evaluation and Improvement
The program director, through the Program Evaluation and Advisory Committee (PEAC), must document formal, systematic evaluation of the curriculum at least annually, and is responsible for rendering a written and Annual Program Evaluation (APE).The program director has responsibility to:
* Provide each trainee with access to program policies, which set expectations regarding, but not limited to the effect of leaves of absence, satisfying the criteria for completion of the residency program, and information relating to access to eligibility for certification by the relevant certifying board.ACGME Accreditation
The program director has the responsibility to:The program director has the responsibility to:
* Ensure, with the institution's support, the availability of adequate resources (e.g., funding, teaching and work space, faculty time), for trainee education as defined in the Emergency Medicine program requirements.Procedures for candidacy:
Applicants should submit CV and cover letter/statement of interest to:
Aaron Ortiz, Manager Provider Recruitment
aaron.ortiz@dhha.org
P: 303-602-4992