Cincinnati Children's Office of Academic Affairs and Career Development

Key Responsibilities

• • Provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care commensurate with the level of advancement and clinical specialty.
• • Develop a local and regional recognition by peers and patients as an authority in the field.
• • Develop a local or regional referral base for subspecialist.
• • Develop clinical skills or programs that are locally or regionally distinctive.
• • Document patient care on appropriate records.
• • May implement innovative approaches to patient care.
• • Provide disease specific expert consultation relative area of specialty.
• • Examine patients and coordinate services for their care.
• • Perform procedures, collect data, analyze data and make decisions regarding patient care, including initial screening, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, care, reassessment and discontinuation of care.
• • Formulate, maintain, support, monitor and modify a patient-specific plan for care, treatment and rehabilitation based on the patient's assessment.
• • Plan and coordinate care, treatment and rehabilitation for discharged patients.
• • Monitor appropriateness of therapeutic management and care to assure that it occurs in a timely fashion.
• • Promote patient care outcomes on ongoing basis.
• • Teaches and supervises the patient care of assigned medical students, residents and fellows, monitoring the medical care of medical to assure care provided is safe and effective.
• • Recognition as an excellent teacher, role model and mentor; assume a role in a major teaching or clinical training program; invited to participate in local and regional educational opportunities; participate in the development or direction of educational program, curricular offerings and teaching materials; participates in curriculum committee or other education related committees.
• • May serve as consult to other faculty and community physicians.
• • May prepare, organize and provide lectures for residents.
• • Prepare and regularly teach at bedside in the Division.
• • Participate in all divisional/departmental educational activities.
• • Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars.
• • Participates in service and/or administration as evidenced by one of the following: contribute to the development of programs for patient care of educational purposes; or take a role in the direction of an academic division; or provide consultation on a specific program development; or participate in performance improvement programs; or participate on divisional, departmental, or Medical Staff committees.
• • Provides faculty coverage as needed within the department.
• • Actively participates in all Division activities.
• • Maintain currency in all departmental policies, procedures and standards.
• • Promote interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships and encourage team concepts.
• • Promote the 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.
• • Participates 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.
• • Design and conduct clinical research on various areas of clinical specialty.
• • Publish and/or co-author findings and conclusions resulting from research in a timely fashion.
• • Presents 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.
• • Assist in obtaining funding from outside sources for research and teaching programs.