Ultrasound Fellowship Director

About the Position:

* Oversees recruiting of highly qualified fellows
* Works with administrative staff to submit EUFAC application for accreditation
* Responds to all EUFAC requests pertaining to application
* Collaborates with ED U/S director on operations
* Assists in hiring additional faculty to support the Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Fellowship and
* Ensures individual faculty members meet or exceed ongoing requirements such as scholarly activity
* In addition to application ensures all other EUFAC requirements are monitored and maintained
* Ensures the quality of patient care provided by residents and faculty
* Serves as a clinical and professional role model
* Participates in budgeting process
* Participates in external academic and educational programs to improve the program
* Represents the program at internal and external meetings
* Attends GMEC and appropriate sub-committee meetings
* Keeps EM Program Director and Chair apprised of key program issues and makes recommendations to resolve problems
* Ensures fair implementation of policies and procedures including grievance and due process
* Monitors work environment for residents and fellow well being
* Ensures program meets all regulatory requirements at all times

Benefits:

* Health, life and disability insurance
* Medical malpractice insurance
* Defined contribution plan; 403(b) plan with employer match
* Professional dues and CME allowance
* Relocation assistance
* Potential sign on bonus

About South Central Pennsylvania

* Features both rural and suburban living and boasts an abundance of sports, arts, cultural events and entertainment. Close to historically significant areas such as Gettysburg and world-famous Hershey Park and Hershey's Chocolate World.
* Offers top-rated public schools, blue-ribbon private schools, and some of Pennsylvania's top colleges and universities. Area school districts are consistently ranked in the top 20% of Pennsylvania. With affordable homes-a composite cost of living index of 99.7, compared to 126.5 in Philadelphia-it's a great place to grow a career and family.
* Listed among Forbes.com "America's Most Livable Cities," and ranked in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Cities to Live" in 2017, we are a 2-3 hour drive away from New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

About UPMC Central PA

UPMC Central PA is a nationally recognized leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered healthcare services in central Pennsylvania and surrounding rural communities. Its more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals and approximately 11,000 employees serve a 10-county area at outpatient facilities and eight acute care hospitals with 1,360 licensed beds: Carlisle, Community Osteopathic, Hanover, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lititz, Memorial, and West Shore.

Qualifications:

* EM Board certification
* Completion of an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship and/or training and experience that is acceptable to EUFAC
* Holds Focused Practice Designation in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasound by ABEM, or be board eligible, or qualifications that are acceptable to EUFAC
* Expertise in emergency ultrasound education; specifically - curriculum development and dissemination and experience as an educator at the regional and national level
* Has demonstrated scholarship in clinical ultrasound with publication of original ultrasound research or review articles in peer reviewed journals
* Experience with safety, quality and security of images, documentation and coding
* Possesses a highly collaborative and innovative leadership style