MEDICAL DIRECTOR Amsterdam

About the role

Responsible for the overall clinical management of the practice and program assigned, including direct supervision of all clinical providers (medical) and monitoring the practice and on-site programs for meeting the organization’s access goals, quality performance measures, regulatory compliance, training programs, and research initiatives. Responsible for maintaining a clinical practice at the assigned site and meeting all responsibilities of an attending physician. Allocation of administrative and clinical time is dependent upon the size and range of programs at the site and assigned by the Regional Medical Director. Schedule will include at least one evening session weekly and one weekend day monthly unless changed and approved by supervisor.

Responsibilities

• Management Responsibilities
  • Direct supervision of all providers assigned to this practice as their primary site
  • Perform semiannual evaluations of all providers assigned to this practice as their primary site, and their annual competency evaluations
  • Organize monthly meetings with providers with documented minutes of meetings
  • Participate in monthly office management meeting with nurse manager and office manager of site
  • Collaborate with all other clinical disciplines as applicable to the site (dental, psychiatry and other clinical staff)
  • Monitor and manage monthly site’s quality performance
  • Ensure site’s regulatory compliance (Joint Commission, NCQA), including review of delinquent encounters, and attached providers in box and mailbox for review of compliance of results in box and consultation reports, and incident reports
  • Accurately assign provider’s clinical hours as required
  • Monitor provider’s productivity and access
  • Monitor provider’s quality performance (Peer Review and Clinical Registries)
  • Conduct provider’s evaluation (Ongoing Provider Performance Evaluation) at practice site
  • Manage provider’s use of EMR email and patient portal
  • 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
  • Collaborate 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
  • Communicate with supervising regional medical directors regarding needs or requests of providers or practice staff
  • Attend Regional Medical Director Meetings and Institute leadership meetings as assigned
• Clinical Responsibilities
  • Maintain an active medical practice of assigned clinical sessions weekly
  • Demonstrate competency in the following areas:
    • Medical Knowledge: Demonstrate good fundamental knowledge of established clinical practice and use of Evidence Based Medicine; sound clinical judgment; appropriate use of consults; keep current with the medical literature
    • Clinical Practice: Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient care; available to patients and staff; maintain good quality medical records; demonstrate good clinical/technical skills; demonstrate excellent to superior quality performance as advanced by the Institute’s initiatives; demonstrate excellent clinical access as advanced by the Institute’s initiatives
    • Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Establish and maintain professional, courteous, and respectful relationships with patients, families, colleagues and other members of the health care team; demonstrate an understanding and sensitivity to diversity and a responsible attitude towards patients, profession and society
    • Professionalism: Demonstrate commitment to continuous professional development (CME) and ethical practice; fulfill CME requirement (50 hours CME/year); timely medical record completion; compliance with open encounter and peer review policies; timely response to patient portal requests; compliance with Institute Policy and Regulations; attend clinical site and program meetings as required
    • Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate an understanding of health care systems and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve and optimize health care; advocate for quality of care on behalf of patients and the organization; demonstrate appropriate use of health system resources
    • Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: Use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care; demonstrate acceptable use of organization’s best practice alerts, quality improvement initiatives, use of clinical registries, core measures compliance, and use of Evidence Based Medicine; demonstrate knowledge of CQI activities at the Institute
    • Teaching and Training: Precept residents, medical students, and other health professional trainees as appropriate; participate in Residency Faculty Meetings as appropriate

Requirements

• Education
  • Graduate of an accredited medical school and an accredited residency program
• Experience and/or Skills
  • Demonstrate effective supervisory skills of clinicians
  • Demonstrate superior clinical skills
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal, communication, organizational, and conflict management skills
  • Demonstrate excellent computer skills
  • Demonstrate ability to prioritize and organize activities of multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Previous clinical supervisory experience preferred
  • Previous leadership activities / Continuous Quality Improvement effectiveness preferred
• Licenses/Certifications
  • NY State Medical License active and unrestricted
  • Board Certification to respective specialty board preferred
  • Current BCLS
  • Current DEA Certificate