Section Chief of Geriatric Medicine

9 hours ago

Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States Dartmouth Health Full time
Job Summary

The Section Chief of Geriatrics is a key leadership position within the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Health. This role is responsible for overseeing the overall direction, operation, and management of the Section of Geriatrics, ensuring alignment with the Department's operational, educational, and research missions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement strategic plans for the Section, aligning with Departmental goals and objectives.
  • Take responsibility for the quality and quality improvement of patient care, teaching, research, and service in the Section.
  • Collaborate with the interprofessional leadership team to design and implement methods for delivering high-quality care, ensuring good experiences for patients and their care partners.
  • Engage faculty and staff in understanding and responding creatively to operational and systems challenges.
  • Appoint Associate Chiefs and/or Program Leaders within the Section, as appropriate, and in collaboration with Departmental leadership.
  • Oversight of Fiscal and Operational Goals – in collaboration with leadership team.
  • Develop and actively monitor the annual operating budget, capital, and staffing plans for the Section, in alignment with Departmental and institutional plans.
  • Develop justifications for and initiates requests for new and/or replacement faculty and staff through appropriate channels, and assures that appropriate search and recruitment methodologies are followed.
  • Manage sectional discretionary, academic enhancement, and other accounts, in alignment with Departmental and institutional guidelines.
  • Ensure appropriate practices related to patient billing and coding.
  • Develop, maintain, and monitors an appropriate sectional compliance program in accordance with the Institutional Compliance Plan.
  • Develop and maintains equitable faculty compensation strategies within the Section which are compatible with the institutional Physician Compensation Program and the Departmental philosophy and guidance.
  • Oversight of Personnel Management – in collaboration with the leadership team.
  • Create a staffing plan that supports ongoing operation of clinical services to respond to clinical needs, while simultaneously working to support faculty and staff roles, ensuring equity in allocation of assignments.
  • Reviews, develops, or modifies position descriptions for existing or new positions to accurately reflect the needs of the Section and the duties, responsibilities, and requirements of the various positions within the Section.
  • Develops and maintains appropriate processes and policies for time away, vacations, CME, business trips, and sick time using institutional guidelines.
  • Reviews and approves or disapproves all faculty requests in these areas. Authorizes reimbursement for travel expenses and registration fees based upon the business necessity for the activity.
  • Participates in annual performance evaluation reviews, using organizational guidance.
  • Completes and reviews ongoing practice performance reports (including ongoing professional practice evaluations – a.k.a. OPPE) for faculty at regular intervals specified by the institution.
  • Ensures that all faculty are complying with requirements to allow renewal of clinical privileges at DHMC and for academic reappointments at Geisel.
  • Addresses concerns raised about quality of care, or professional behavior in faculty or staff, according to institutional policies, in collaboration with Departmental leadership, using institutional resources as needed.
  • Completes focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) as required.
  • Responsibility for Mentoring Faculty.
  • Ensures new faculty are welcomed and oriented to section and department.
  • Ensure that each faculty member meets regularly with a member of the leadership team to set clinical and professional development goals and to monitor progress toward them.
  • Provides (either directly or through engagement of senior faculty in the section) initial and ongoing mentorship for faculty in identifying areas of scholarly interest.
  • Works with faculty to map a path toward academic advancement, with clear milestones and deliverables, with the goal of supporting academic promotion at Geisel.
  • Serves as a role model in the pursuit of scholarship and academic advancement. Works with faculty to ensure they are completing scholarly activities as appropriate to their interests and career goals.
  • Assists faculty in identifying local, regional, and national opportunities for professional development and scholarly activities.
  • Initiates requests for promotion for appropriate Section members and provides support in the development of appropriate promotion packages consistent with Geisel policy.
  • Responsibility for Teaching within the Section.
  • Ensures that the Section fulfills its obligations for teaching Geisel students, DHMC graduate medical trainees, and other healthcare professionals, by building and implementing high-quality learning experiences.
  • Supports the residency and fellowship directors in maintaining ACGME/RRC/other accreditation of training program in compliance with the published ACGME Program Requirements for Residency Education or other relevant guidelines.
  • Regularly participates and ensures participation by Section faculty in Departmental educational conferences, including Medical Grand Rounds, and Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement conference.
  • Responsibility for Research Activities – in collaboration with the Department.
  • Facilitates clinical, outcomes, and/or basic science research programs appropriate to the Section and its faculty, with opportunities for junior faculty to learn from senior faculty.
  • Ensures that all proposals for research projects or participation in such projects are reviewed for scientific integrity, and alignment with section and departmental missions, and are sufficiently resourced to be successful.
  • Responsibility for Regional Systems.
  • Develops and maintains effective working relationships with referring physicians and hospitals within our hospital system, the state, and northern New England.
  • Identifies and responds to regional opportunities to advance sectional, departmental, and institutional goals related to clinical care, teaching, and research.
About Dartmouth Health

Dartmouth Health is an academic health system, serving patients across New England. A national leader in patient-centered health care, D-H is on a path to creating a sustainable health system for the region and as a model for the nation.

Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire's only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state's only Children's Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children's hospital.

As an academic health system, Dartmouth Health provides access to nearly 1,500 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research with the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

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