12W Medical Director

Responsibilities*

• Fundamental responsibilities
  • Fulfills duties assigned by 12W MPLAN leadership.
  • Participate in regularly scheduled (2-3/week) touch base with unit leadership partner to identify and solve problems. Frequency to be determined by 12W MPLAN partners.
  • Responsible for day-to-day safety, quality, operations, and finance of patient care unit (PCU).
  • Conduct purposeful rounds with unit partner to achieve unit goals.
  • Ensures day-to-day operations consistent with institutional and departmental employee codes of conduct, employee recognition and employee engagement.
  • Collaborate with unit MPLAN partner to create and support an environment where cutting edge, innovative, and appropriate care is provided to a continually growing number of patients.
  • Share PCU activities, best practices, and improvements across enterprise at MPLAN meetings.
  • Represent the PCU on health system committees as requested by the CW associate triad.
• Program and Clinical Management
  • Develop and implement unit goals and objectives which include the establishment of standards of practice in patient care consistent with national professional and regulatory guidelines.
  • Ensure the PCU achieves performance goals set jointly with the CW associate triad and MPLAN unit partner(s).            
  • Participate in ongoing and annual review of safety, quality, operations, and finance for PCU in collaboration with MPLAN partner and other PCU leadership as defined in unit-based operating system that is aligned with hospital operating system.
  • Monitor safety, quality, operations, and financial outcomes as aligned with institutional priorities.
  • Resolves clinical, operational, and interdisciplinary problems on unit jointly with unit partner and other unit leadership.
• Financial Management (area of growth and training)
  • Coordinate with unit partner and other disciplines to plan, evaluate, and manage budget of patient care unit.
  • Participates on planning teams to determine and implement improvements on unit. 
• Performance Improvement 
  • Lead performance improvement (PI) activities on PCU in collaboration with unit partner and other unit leadership. 
  • Facilitate and support service excellence, patient satisfaction, continuity and coordination of care, and quality improvement initiatives, including: 
  • Data analysis and regular review to assure compliance with health system operational principles.
  • Implementation of clinical guidelines and standards of care 
  • Foster development of team-based care which supports collaboration across all services and coordination of care on the unit.
• Leadership Development and Training 
  • Participate in MPLAN leadership development and training program.
  • Promote the academic and clinical missions by ensuring that infrastructure is in place to support and communicate education and training initiatives for all providers and unit staff. 

Required Qualifications*

• Degree: A Doctor of Medicine/Osteopathy/Dentistry (DMD or DDS) is required. 
• License: Possession of a current license to practice medicine or dentistry in the State of Michigan is necessary. 
• Faculty: Active appointment as a full-time Member of the Medical School Faculty. 
• Experience/Education: Appropriate clinical experience and education and Board Certification (or equivalency) is required. 
• Quality: Active interest in impacting unit quality. 
• Leadership Experience: Administrative leadership experience is desirable.

Additional Information

• 20% effort - 12W Medical Director's full appointment is protected for MPLAN responsibilities.
• Anticipated length of service is 3 years.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.