Emergency Medicine Physician Job at WVU Medicine in Wheeling, WV

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West Virginia University Medicine is seeking a Regional Medical Director for our Emergency Medicine Division Northern operation.

The Regional Medical Director (RMD) will plan and direct all aspects of WVU EM policies and programs within the region. The RMD will be responsible for strategic clinical relationships with hospital administration, site medical directors, and providers within the region and ensure all clinical sites within the regional comply with WVU Emergency Medicine/SMG Policies. The candidate should have extensive leadership experience and demonstrate the ability to plan and execute goals as set forth by WVU Emergency Medicine/SMG. The candidate will perform a variety of complex tasks as well as lead and direct the work of other physicians, PA/NPs, and other administrative and clinical staff as outlined below. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is required. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, high-quality Emergency Medicine group and offers an excellent compensation and benefits package.

In summary, the RMD will provide on-site support in management of the clinical aspects of the Emergency Medicine Division operations as outlined in more detail on the following page. These will include:

Qualifications:

The Regional Medical Director will oversee several locations in Northern, WV including large community emergency departments and critical access facilities. Emergency department locations volume range from 5,400 to 44,000 patient visits per year and are currently located in Barnesville OH, Cadiz, OH, and Wheeling, Glen Dale, and New Martinsville, WV. 

WVU Medicine/ System Medical Group is a dynamic organization with the goal to provide high-quality care to the citizens of West Virginia and surrounding regions, backed by a tertiary-care academic medical center. We are a rapidly expanding group with an emphasis on physicians looking to grow our leadership team.

Purpose:

The Regional Medical Director:

1. Provides leadership, education, research, planning, organization, staffing, coordination, and evaluation of (insert region) emergency department activities.

2. Acts as liaison with departmental, educational, scholarship, research, hospital administration, and medical staff.

3. Excels in the following areas:

Preferred Qualifications:

The following skills and experience are appropriate for the director of an Emergency

Department:

1. Career emergency medicine physician with clinical and leadership skills.

2. Board-certified in emergency medicine.

3. Demonstrated interest, knowledge and ability in the leadership, financial, managerial, and marketing aspects of emergency medicine.

4. Meets and maintains State Licensure and credentialing requirements.

5. Demonstrates the ability to speak effectively on administrative and clinical matters related to emergency medicine. Appropriately focuses on the audience, whether administrators, medical staff members, EMS providers, or the lay public.

  Reporting: 

The Regional EM Medical Director will report directly to the Vice-Chair of Community Emergency Medicine or their designee.

Responsibilities:

A. Regional Management

  B. Education-

1. Participates in continuing education of physicians, APPs, residents, fellows, medical students, nurses, and other ED personnel.

2. Encourages the involvement of all physician staff to participate in prehospital training and education.

3. Encourages an outreach program to the community, media, and industry on topics of interest in the area of emergency medicine and promotes the regional hospitals medical capabilities.

C. Liaison

Takes steps to ensure good communication with the following individuals and groups:

4. Other Local Hospital departments

5. Industry (local and regional employers)

6. Civic groups

7. City/county government in cooperation with hospital administration

8. Paramedic and EMS system

    D. Effort Expectations