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The Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at UMass Chan and Memorial Health and in Worcester, MA is recruiting into the role of Associate Residency Program Director for our growing and fully integrated Residency Program of 44 Residents. UMass Memorial Health is the region’s Level I Trauma Center and Safety Net Hospital serving a Community of more than 1.5 million Residents. The Associate Program Director reports to the Program Director and assists in the operation of the residency program. The Associate Program Director must dedicate to this role at least the defined % FTE required by the specialty-specific program requirements (using a 40- hour work week unless otherwise stated). Salary support for the Associate Program Director as defined in the ACGME specialty-specific program requirements will be provided. Eligible candidates should have no less than 2 years of clinical experience in Academic Medicine and be board certified in Anesthesiology.

Qualifications

Qualifications of the Associate Program Director must include the following:

• Requisite expertise and documented educational and administrative experience acceptable to the

Residency Review Committee

• Current certification in the specialty by the corresponding American Board of Medical

Specialties, or specialty qualifications that are acceptable to the Review Committee

• Current medical licensure

Responsibilities

• The Program Director must define the responsibilities of the Associate Program Director to meet the needs of the program while maintaining overall authority, accountability and oversight for the operation of the program.
• Areas of involvement by the Associate Program Director may include:
  • Education
    • To assist the Program Director in overseeing and ensuring the quality of didactic and clinical education in all sites that participate in the program.
    • To assist the Program Director in ensuring that the program does not place excessive reliance on residents for service as opposed to education.
    • To assist the Program Director in ensuring the residents have the required experience with procedures, diagnostic and therapeutic methods.
  • Supervision
    • To assist the Program Director in monitoring resident supervision at all participating sites.
  • Evaluation
    • To assist the Program Director in developing, implementing and assessing the reliability and validity of evaluation methods.
  • Quality Improvement
    • To assist the Program Director in ensuring that departmental clinical quality improvement programs are integrated into the residency program.
  • Duty Hours/Learning Environment
    • To assist the Program Director in monitoring resident duty hours, according to Sponsoring Institutional policies, with a frequency sufficient to ensure compliance with ACGME requirements.
    • To assist the Program Director in ensuring that resident schedules do not result in excessive service demands and/or fatigue.
    • To assist the Program Director in monitoring the need for and ensure the provision of back-up support systems when patient care responsibilities are unusually difficult or prolonged.
    • To assist the Program Director in monitoring resident stress, including mental or emotional conditions inhibiting performance or learning, and drug or alcohol related dysfunction.
  • Faculty Development
    • To continue medical education research and scholarly development that would lead to progressive professorial advancement and national recognition in an area of clinical education expertise.

• Responsibilities not specifically outlined in the above ACGME Requirements:
  • Attend all residency town hall meetings (if not on vacation or offsite)
  • Be a member of and attend (when not on vacation or offsite) meetin