Cincinnati Children's

Key Responsibilities

• • Provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care commensurate with the level of advancement and clinical specialty.
• • Make significant contributions to clinical service as evidenced by expertise in clinical care.
• • Develop and maintain local and regional recognition by peers and patients as an authority in the field.
• • Develop a wide local and regional referral base for subspecialist.
• • Develop clinical skills or programs that are local or regionally distinctive.
• • Apply clinical skills that are clinically sound, effective and achieve exceptional patient outcomes.
• • Provide consultative services to other physicians and clinical providers within the medical center to establish a coordinated care plan for each patient.
• • Integrate innovative approaches to patient care.
• • Serve in a role in establishing the clinical direction of the specific clinical field.
• • Provide disease specific expert consultation relative area of specialty.
• • Make decisions regarding patient care, including initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment, and discontinuation of care.
• • Monitor appropriateness of therapeutic management and care.
• • Promote patient care outcomes on ongoing basis.
• • Play an important role in a major teaching or clinical training program(s).
• • Supervise the patient care of assigned residents and fellows.
• • Teach and supervise the patient care of assigned medical students, residents and fellows, monitoring the medical care of medical to assure care provided is safe and effective.
• • Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars.
• • Participate in program development for service and/or administration as evidenced by one of the following: make significant contributes to the development of a unique programs for patient care of educational purposes; or take a significant role in the direction of an academic division; or provide consultation on a specific program development; or significant participation in performance improvement programs or on divisional, departmental, or Medical Staff committees.
• • Participate in local or regional clinical affairs through membership in clinical societies or specialty governing boards.
• • Provide faculty coverage as needed within the department.
• • Take a role in the development of departmental policies, procedures and standards.
• • Promote interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and encourage team concepts.
• • Assist in the development and implementation of long and short term goals and objectives and ensures that they are appropriate to the Division.
• • Complete evaluations for students, residents and peers.
• • Participate in scholarly activities as evidenced by publication of clinical investigation, clinical observations, reviews, chapters or books; participation in clinical trials, and/or clinical investigations; reviews manuscripts.
• • Apply advanced training in research methods to design and conduct clinical research on various areas of clinical specialty.
• • Develop research programs in area of clinical specialty.
• • Demonstrate effectiveness in securing grant funding of research initiatives and programs.
• • Assist in the development and growth of new externally funded research initiatives.
• • Publish and/or co-author findings and conclusions resulting from research in a timely fashion.
• • Present findings internally.
• • Assist in the design and implementation of programs which evaluates the efficacy of treatment.
• • Recommend approaches for improvement activities, recommend and perform new processes, collect and measure data, develop processes based on performance and communicate results.