Job Summary: Chief Resident position is a one-year experience that offers a unique blend of education, patient care, advocacy, and administration with heavy emphasis on teaching outpatient and inpatient medicine in a clinical context. Under Program Director supervision, at a Junior Faculty capacity, The Chief Resident performs as a Leader, Mentor, Administrator, Educator, & Counselor for an ACGME accredited training program. Serves as a guiding leader to a group of early physicians through a year of intense professional growth. Supports the accredited program in its Administrative, Operational, & Recruitment responsibilities.
Essential Responsibilities:
- LEADERSHIP & ACADEMIC TEACHING OF RESIDENT(S) & MEDICAL STUDENT(S): Mentor for PGY1, PGY2, PGY3, & Medical Students.
- Round with inpatient teams independently of staff physicians.
- Staff & Co-Sign Intern(s) & Resident(s) notes.
- Serves as liaison between the residents and the administration.
- Provide career guidance to residents i.e. applications, fellowship training, networking.
- Serves as a barometer of morale in the residency program.
- Leadership involvement in new program improvements initiatives/workflows.
- Introduce KP quality/performance improvement initiatives to residents & follow up on healthcare performance metrics.
- Involvement in various campus-wide committees directly affecting the Training Program.
- Involvement in community health/wellness outreach, free clinic(s).
- Organize and promote quarterly panel management projects, if applicable.
- Participate, precept & mentor Resident/Medical Student during inpatient & outpatient settings.
- Continuity Clinic
- Organize & facilitate Onboarding/Orientation of Residents, Rotating Residents, & Medical Students to Inpatient & Outpatient settings i.e. critical care, nursery units, ambulatory clinics.
- Organize and lead morning report conferences.
- Schedule and facilitate Journal Club.
- Organize and lead medical student outpatient didactics.
- Organize outpatient educational didactics.
- Schedule resident research/scholarly activity presentations.
- Coordination of Training Sites (coordinate resident rotations at off-site community services, clinics, non-KP LAMC sites, & non-KP hospitals).
- Performance Evaluations: Resident and Medical Students.
- Board Review Series (Participate in Lecture Series).
- ADMINISTRATIVE: Educational/curriculum deployment.
- Organize medical student schedules.
- Create, Organize & Maintenance of Resident Block Rotation Schedule.
- Approval of Resident Vacation Requests.
- Create, Organize, maintenance of Resident Call Schedules.
- Create, Organize, maintenance of Resident Sick Call & Jeopardy Coverage.
- Creation of Noon Conference Schedule.
- Coordinate procedural simulations.
- Coordinate with other training programs to create unified schedule.
- Schedule Management: Holidays, Retreat Coverage, Graduation Dinner Coverage.
- Oversight of Continuity Clinic conflicts due to vacation, cancellations, make-ups, etc.
- Resident Work Hours Monitoring (In conjunction with PD and GME Office).
- Medical Record/Delinquent Dictation Notifications.
- RECRUITMENT: Organize, lead & participate: Arrange Lunch, Tour Schedule, Recruitment Socials.
- Participate in Recruitment Interviews.
- Organize & Participate New Intern Orientation, EPIC/Health Connect Training.
- Lead program & hospital tour for applicants.
- Coordinate Housestaff Feedback Meeting.
- Attend Intern Selection Committee Meetings.
- Support program overview presentation by Program Director.
- PATIENT CARE: Weekly Continuity Clinic Duties.
- Inpatient Attending Duties.
- Manage Personal Inbox and monitor In-Basket Management by Residents.
- Coordinate Resident Inbox coverage schedules.
- Mentor at MSFC Free Clinic.
Basic Qualifications: Experience Education - MD/DO Degree
- Completion of ACGME accredited specialty care training program.
License, Certification, Registration - Doctor of Medicine License (California)
- Drug Enforcement Administration Registration
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Additional Requirements:- NRP Certification (if applicable)
- PALS Certification (if applicable)
Preferred Qualifications:
