Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Key Responsibilities

• • Teaching – Faculty have opportunities to work with learners through attending on the inpatient teaching service with learners including medical students, interns and residents
• • Teaching – Faculty have opportunities to work with learners through attending on the medicine consult service which includes medical students and residents from both internal medicine and other services
• • Teaching – Faculty have opportunities to work with learners through attending on the bedside procedure service which includes internal medicine residents
• • Teaching – Faculty have opportunities to work with learners through attending on the GME nocturnist service which includes internal medicine housestaff
• • Faculty are expected to learn about and apply contemporary adult learning methods to promote evidence-based practice and demonstrate effective teaching skills and continually develop as a teacher for learners at all levels
• • Faculty may participate in other learning activities such as Foundations of Clinical Medicine, morning report, noon conference, and other formal educational programs for undergraduate and post-graduate learners
• • Research – Faculty have opportunities to participate in clinical and administrative research, according to skills, interest, and funding
• • Research opportunities may include performance improvement initiatives or formal extramurally funded investigations
• • Participation may be as principal investigator or co-investigator
• • Faculty are expected to develop an area of expertise and achieve recognition of this expertise to advance in rank
• • Service – Faculty are expected to work with institutional staff and administration to attain the strategic objectives of VCU Health System, including patient safety, patient satisfaction, maintenance and enhancement of public perception, and fiscal health
• • Faculty have numerous opportunities to engage in committee work and lead health system efforts to enhance quality
• • Clinical – Faculty primarily admit, manage, and discharge patients on the hospitalist-led inpatient services, co-manage patients on other services, attend on the General Medicine consult service, triage medicine patients requiring admission in the Emergency Department, and coordinate patient transfers from the Intensive Care units, non-medical services and non-VCU hospitals
• • Faculty assure service coverage 24-hours a day, every day of the year in collaboration with the advanced practice providers on the hospitalist service
• • Faculty should comply in a timely manner with all institutional policies for professional work including credentialing, documentation, billing and work effectively with other members of the extended interprofessional team