LifeBridge Health

Key Responsibilities

• • Provide direct clinical care to adolescents and adults at the outpatient program.
• • Supervise a multi-disciplinary team including APPs, LCPCs, LCSWs, RNs.
• • Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, with attention to the current best practice guidelines.
• • Assist the department chair with as needed Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluations and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation requirements.
• • Collaborate with clinical documentation department to ensure appropriate and timely documentation as per program policies.
• • Collaborate with the service line leadership to aid in monitoring, evaluating, and managing the operational budget for the program.
• • Lead patient, employee, and clinicians’ engagement programs and assist with recruitment and retention efforts.
• • Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives, with continued focus on ensuring compliance with documentation and revenue cycle operations, and assist with regulatory, accreditation, and payor preparedness.
• • Engage in committees that support clinical practice issues as requested by the Chair and hospital leadership.
• • Spearhead outreach and highlight services of the department to the public and physician community and collaborate with marketing teams to assist with increasing patient access.
• • Identify the need for Department policy development and/or revision and recommends new and amended policies to service line leadership consistent with their goals objectives.
• • Direct all components of the psychiatry clerkship including day-to-day management and ongoing planning.
• • Orient students to the clerkship at start of each rotation.
• • Develop and implement the clerkship curriculum to meet the clerkship objectives, integrating vertically and horizontally with other courses.
• • Design, teach, or arrange educators for educational sessions on the clerkship to support learning objectives.
• • Prepare and maintain the clerkship syllabus and related materials in accordance with school guidelines.
• • Ensure mid-clerkship feedback is occurring for every student on the clerkship.
• • Assess students by collecting, compiling, and assigning final grades, meeting accreditation deadlines and handling grade appeals per school policy.
• • Routinely review evaluative data about the clerkship and plan improvements where needed.
• • Prepare and participate in clerkship course reviews and serve as occasional peer reviewer for other courses.
• • Ensure and monitor comparability across sites regarding objectives, assessment methods, clinical encounters, performance, and satisfaction.
• • Know school policies and ensure processes are in accordance with accreditation standards.
• • Participate in school’s curriculum or other education committees.
• • Collaborate with faculty development office to ensure faculty are prepared to teach medical students and are familiar with learning objectives and assessment methods.
• • Communicate routinely with department chair and deans’ office, escalating when needed.
• • Handle student queries and maintain responsiveness to students.
• • Provide advising including letter writing and career advising in the field.
• • Stay abreast of innovations in medical education, contribute to scholarly projects, and participate in national clerkship directors’ societies.
• • Faculty receive a full-time academic appointment with The GWU School of Medicine at the rank commensurate with their achievements.
• • Utilize career development resources available through the school of medicine and LifeBridge Health leadership institute.