Medical Director Family Residency Program

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Director, Family Medicine - Residency Program, you will lead the general administration of the Family Residency program, overseeing all activities related to resident recruitment, instruction, supervision, and evaluation, and ensuring program accreditation.

 

Every day you will manage resident advancement, supervise faculty physicians, design and maintain the program curriculum, and meticulously handle all records and oversight activities related to ACGME meetings, audits, and investigations.

 

• To be successful in this role, you will be a Family Medicine physician with strong leadership, administrative, and educational skills, a deep understanding of ACGME requirements, and a proven ability to manage a residency program while fostering the development of future family physicians.
• Is responsible for maintaining the Program's accreditation status with the Resident Review Committee and the ACGME, and maintaining records and responding to requests for information, reports, or investigation/audit from ACGME.
• Is responsible for the teaching performance of the Faculty, works closely with the regional Medical Director on the behavior and quality performance of the faculty, and in smaller programs, the program director and the medical director may hold both positions.
• Selects residents for appointment to the program in accordance with institutional and departmental policies and procedures and diversity goals, and ensures impartiality of the selection process and the final list submission.
• Conducts regular evaluation of residents’ knowledge, skills, and overall performance, including the development of professional attitudes consistent with being a physician.
• Supervises each of the residents through explicit written descriptions of supervisory lines of responsibility for the care of patients, ensuring such guidelines are communicated to all members of the program staff and that residents are provided with prompt, reliable systems for communications and interaction with supervisory physicians.
• Directs the improvement plan and/or disciplinary actions up to and including suspension or expulsion from the program for a resident who, by behavior and/or clinical performance, has not achieved expected goals after a period of coaching and a written improvement plan, following medical group guidelines for this process.

Job Requirements

Required

 

• Doctorate Degree, must be currently certified by the American Board of Family Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians or have suitable equivalent qualifications
• Four (4) years of fulltime professional activity in family practice
• Three (3) years of educational experience and/or administrative experience or suitable equivalent qualifications determined by the Residency Review Committee
• Physician License, Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Colorado Appointment in good standing to the medical staff of institutions participating in the program or in another state without restriction and able to acquire license in Colorado

Where You’ll Work

For more than 50 years, St. Anthony North Hospital has delivered optimal health care to the communities of Westminster, Erie, Brighton, Broomfield, Northglenn and Thornton. Highlights of our campus include 60,000 square feet of integrated primary and specialty care physician clinics, ambulatory surgery center, birthing center with private birthing suites, Level III Trauma Center with 24/7 emergency services, over 150 inpatient beds and an outpatient diagnostics center with lab and imaging services. In 2023, we received our prestigious Magnet designation! We are so proud of our nursing staff for this achievement, which is awarded to less than 6 percent of hospitals in the United States. Built on the pillars of convenience, wellness and person-centered care, we offer inpatient and outpatient care at one site, with an emphasis on preventive health, wellness and health education.