What are the responsibilities and job description for the Emergency Medicine Jr Faculty position at Kaiser Permanente?
Emergency Ultrasound (EUS) Fellow position is a one-year experience that offers recent emergency medicine residency graduates an opportunity to work clinically in the emergency department as a junior faculty member, supervising residents and medical students and teaching didactic and bedside ultrasound to emergency medicine residents, medical students, attending emergency physicians and physicians of other specialties. The fellow functions as an integral part of the emergency ultrasound team and helps manage the emergency ultrasound education for the department and maintenance of the equipment. The EUS Fellow assists the program in its administrative, operational, & recruitment responsibilities.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Leadership and academic teaching of core emergency ultrasound applications to residents and medical students
- QA of ultrasounds done by both faculty, residents and medical students
- Ultrasound machine maintenance
- Evaluation of ultrasound competence for emergency medicine residents
- Research and QI project development and assistance
- Planning of regional ultrasound events for the emergency medicine residency
- Lecture and teach at the local ultrasound courses within the department, hospital, regionally and nationally.
- Facilitate ultrasound journal club.
- Organize and lead mouthly Ultrasound Rounds lecture series for emergency medicine residency.
- Participate in fellowship recruitment activities.
- Lead online ultrasound Case of the Week educational series
Qualifications:
- N/A
- Medical degree (MD or DO)
- Doctor of Medicine License (California)
- Drug Enforcement Administration Registration
- Basic Life Support
- National Provider Identifier
- Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency program in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or Pediatrics
- Must be able to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment
- Advanced Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- MPH
- PhD
