Director of Family Medicine Residency Program
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Huntsville Hospital Health System
Decatur, AL, US
Summary
The Program Director provides strategic, operational, and clinical leadership for the ACGME-accredited Family Medicine Residency Program. Responsibilities include ensuring accreditation compliance, overseeing curriculum development, managing faculty, and directing resident education and recruitment.
Job Description
Overview
Job Summary:
The Program Director provides strategic, operational, educational, and clinical leadership for the ACGME-accredited Family Medicine Residency Program. The Program Director is responsible for accreditation compliance, curriculum oversight, faculty development, resident education, quality improvement, scholarly activity, financial stewardship, and institutional collaboration.
Demonstrates through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities / Essential Functions
- Provide overall leadership for the Family Medicine Residency Program.
- Maintain continuous compliance with ACGME Institutional, Common, and Family Medicine Program Requirements.
- Develop and implement strategic plans that support the program's mission and institutional goals.
- Ensure high-quality clinical education while promoting patient safety and resident well-being.
- Lead resident recruitment, selection, promotion, remediation, and graduation.
- Direct competency-based curriculum development and assessment.
- Oversee faculty recruitment, mentoring, evaluation, and professional development.
- Chair or oversee the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) and Program Evaluation Committee (PEC).
- Complete Accreditation Data System (ADS) updates, Annual Program Evaluation, and accreditation preparations.
- Collaborate with the DIO, GMEC, hospital leadership, affiliated sites, and community partners.
- Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, professionalism, and psychological safety.
- Oversee scholarly activity, research, and quality improvement initiatives.
Manage educational resources, budgets, and program personnel.
Qualifications
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Experience required: minimum 5 years of post-residency, 3 years of educational or administrative leadership in graduate medical education; BLS and ACLS certified; MOAB certified
Education: MD or DO from an accredited university; Board certified in Family Medicine; licensed by AL Board of Medical Examiners
Huntsville Hospital is an 881-bed hospital that serves as the regional referral center for North Alabama and southern Tennessee. Huntsville Hospital is governed by the Health Care Authority of the City of Huntsville and is the second-largest hospital in Alabama. In recent years, the hospital has expanded its services throughout the region with the development of Huntsville Hospital Health System, which includes hospitals in Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Decatur, Boaz, Guntersville, Moulton, Red Bay, Sheffield, Scottsboro, and Fayetteville, Tenn. The Health System includes more than 2,300 patient beds and 21,000 employees.
Founded
1895
Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Huntsville, AL
Huntsville Hospital is an 881-bed hospital that serves as the regional referral center for North Alabama and southern Tennessee. Huntsville Hospital is governed by the Health Care Authority of the City of Huntsville and is the second-largest hospital in Alabama. In recent years, the hospital has expanded its services throughout the region with the development of Huntsville Hospital Health System, which includes hospitals in Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Decatur, Boaz, Guntersville, Moulton, Red Bay, Sheffield, Scottsboro, and Fayetteville, Tenn. The Health System includes more than 2,300 patient beds and 21,000 employees.
Founded
1895
Company size
10,001+ employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Huntsville, AL
