Assistant/Associate/Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine-SMS-3774

Participate as a full-time faculty member in the Departmental and Medical School activities as a Clinician Teacher, specializing in the management of hospitalized patients. The incumbent has a major commitment to the provision, advancement and promotion of excellence in clinical care and teaching/educational activities, and contributes significantly to scholarly activities.

Responsibilities

• Administrative (5% academic consideration time)
  • Assume other divisional and departmental administrative responsibility as directed by the Division Chief.
  • Includes 0.05 FTE academic consideration time.
• Teaching (15%)
  • Clinical Teaching (7.5% - included in Service time)
    • Teach, mentor, and supervise individual students and residents during in-patient and out-patient consultations and follow-up visits.
    • Prepare lectures, seminars, and rounds for students on the Hospitalist Service.
  • Didactic Teaching (7.5%)
    • Prepare and deliver lectures, seminars, conferences, and rounds for resident house staff, medical students, and other learners in the Department of Medicine and other departments.
    • Provide periodic seminars/educational sessions for the division.
    • Prepare conferences for the Department of Medicine.
    • Provide lectures and conferences at hospitals in communities of Central and Southern Illinois.
• Service (80%, includes 7.5% Clinical Teaching effort)
  • Professional Services
    • Complete inpatient and outpatient consultations requested by full-time SIU clinical faculty, house staff, and community physicians.
    • Develop and maintain professional practice in accordance with departmental policy.
    • Achieve a minimum target of 3,393 RVUs per year (1.0 CFTE = 4,346 RVUs) based on the most recent Vizient (AAMC) academic median benchmark and CFTE.
  • Clinical Duties
    • Staff 166.25 total shifts. Shifts are weighted with days as 1.0 and nights as 1.2. Proportion of actual days and nights may vary based on staffing levels.
    • Additional shifts may be available and/or necessary based on staffing levels as per hospital partner needs and may be compensated separately.
  • University, Hospital, and Regional Services
    • Participate in University, SIU HC, and hospital committees as requested.

Requirements

• Sensitive to the needs of underrepresented minority populations.
• Graduate of accredited medical school program.
• Graduate of formal specialty training program in Internal Medicine.
• Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine or eligibility for ABIM.
• Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Illinois or licensed by the State of Illinois prior to employment.

Qualifications

• Experience working in an academic environment, both inpatient and outpatient settings.

Pay

The budgeted annual salary range is $130,000 to $143,000, representing the academic base salary only, which is funded through the University. The final academic base salary will be determined by a thorough assessment of available market data, internal salary equity, candidate experience and qualifications, and budget considerations. Additional clinical compensation will be provided separately through a member practice agreement.