What are the responsibilities and job description for the New Facility*** Interventional Radiology Residency Program Director position at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center?
Job Description
The Department of Radiology at The Ohio State University is seeking a Program Director for Interventional Radiology (IR) who is an experienced clinician and an inspiring and innovative educational leader. Academic rank and track commensurate with academic record and experience.
Position Overview
The Program Director oversees all residents and resident-directed educational activities in the IR Division at OSU. They work directly with Departmental leadership and the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education (GME) within the College of Medicine to execute strategic growth of our educational mission, including the development of innovative learning opportunities and models for our residents. They will also work closely with the IR Division Chief to ensure an optimal collaboration and experience for all faculty and staff within a fast-paced clinical learning environment.
Importantly, OSUWMC includes the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, a state-of-the-art NCI-designated cancer-care facility, representing the third largest cancer hospital in the United States. OSUWMC cancer care is supported by a very active IR-based Interventional Oncology (IO) program functioning within a highly collegial and progressive multi-disciplinary work group environment and offering a full range of IO procedures (e.g., radioembolization, chemoembolization, percutaneous ablations) along with involvement in multiple ongoing trials. Training in oncologic procedures represents an exciting component of educational opportunities for residents coming to OSU for IR training.
The Divisions IR physicians and residents practice within multiple IR procedure rooms across the OSU University Hospital, James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State East Hospital and James outpatient care ASC, and are supported by dedicated APPs, RNs, and RTs. IR faculty work side-by-side with trainees in both Interventional and Diagnostic residency programs, contributing substantially to the training of future radiologists locally and across the country.
Department / Division Overview
The Department of Radiology is rapidly growing, with expanded services at off-site imaging centers, and renovations to our existing clinical spaces and new spaces through the medical center strategic expansion project ($3 Billion) :
Main campus : New construction of a state-of-the-art 830-bed Hospital Tower, a biomedical research tower, and a Health Sciences building that will house the College of Medicine
Around the city : Construction of 2 newly designed ambulatory care centers in New Albany and Dublin is now completed and open, in addition to 16 established ambulatory care centers up and running today.
By joining our faculty, you will have excellent opportunities for advancement, while working with an exceptional cadre of multidisciplinary providers. Faculty are supported by many outstanding clinical, research, and educational resources in the department and organization, including substantial, dedicated expertise in imaging technology innovation, artificial intelligence, and health services research.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the educational mission of the training program ensuring appropriate trainee milestone advancement, oversight of the faculty teaching performance / role modeling, assigning teaching faculty based on performance.
- Ensure that the most recent, cutting-edge opportunities for education in IR are brought to OSU and to our program.
- Foster an effective, safe learning environment, promoting an interdisciplinary healthcare team that supports education and provides high quality, effective clinical services to patients, and does so in a balanced fashion.
- Assess residency / fellowship quality outcome metrics - both education and patient care - while also supporting wise resource utilization and appropriate adherence to protocol and practice guidelines by trainees.
- Ensure the education and training of supervising physicians, residents, and fellows is commensurate with their activity in OSUWMC and that trainees are provided proper supervision commensurate to skill / knowledge of the trainee.
- Ensure OSUWMC meets the accreditation and regulatory standards of the ACGME, Joint Commission, HIPAA, OSHA, and any other governmental accrediting or regulatory bodies as may be appropriate for IR Divisional / training activities.
- Promote program and OSU education through educational scholarly output.
Requirements
How to Apply
To be considered, please submit your application electronically to tyler.smith@osumc.edu Application materials must include cover letter and curriculum vitae. All inquiries and nominations should be directed in confidence to : Tyler K. Smith, Physician and Faculty Recruitment.
