Posting Note: The Phoenix Children’s Pediatric Residency Program is based in the only free-standing children’s hospital in the state of Arizona. We are the only Pediatric Level 1 trauma facility in all of Arizona. We received more than 269,900 unique patient visits in 2022, perform cutting-edge research, and employ more than 900 Pediatric Providers. Phoenix Children’s is located in the beautiful and diverse community of Phoenix, Arizona, and is a state-of-the-art pediatric system hospital known for its patient- and family-centered approach.

Our residency program has 36 residents per year which allows us to employ creative scheduling (“X+Y”) and individualized educational tracks with strong mentorship to support career development. We partner with Valleywise Health, a public safety-net hospital, and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, a community-based hospital, to offer a diverse experience for our trainees. Phoenix Children’s also sponsors 24 ACGME residency and fellowship programs and has a large primary care network and we are proud that many of our graduates choose to stay here for specialty training and employment. Phoenix Children’s has university affiliations with University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Creighton University School of Medicine, and Mayo Clinic-Arizona to support the education of local medical students.

The role of Program Director involves a commitment of 70% administrative responsibilities and 30% clinical duties. Administrative responsibilities include, but are not limited to, teaching and supervision, curriculum planning and implementation, ensuring trainee competence for promotion, maintaining regulatory compliance, and promoting a workplace that is inclusive and safe for residents to learn and thrive. The Program Director will also serve as a liaison to align the residency program interests with those of Graduate Medical Education and the institution. The program director position is supported by seven Associate Program Directors who have protected time and specialized interests within residency education.

Qualifications
• BC by the American Board of Pediatrics.
• Must be licensed or eligible for licensure in the State of Arizona.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as an Associate Program Director or Director or extensive leadership experience in medical education.
• Demonstrated success working individually and as part of a team.

The Director, Residency Program (Program Director) is the focal point of resident training and is charged with responsibilities in teaching, administration, and clinical areas.

1. Teaching and Role Modeling
   • Demonstrates the art and science of medicine through activities such as inpatient teaching rounds, morning report, rounds, teaching conferences, and clinic precepting.
   • Demonstrates clinical teaching methods, humanism, professionalism, and the importance of clinical inquiry.
   • Continually advances his/her perspectives of the residents and the training program and gains a basis for continual program improvement.
   • The program director oversees the development, maintenance, review, delivery, coordination, and assessment of all aspects of the residency training curriculum.
2. Curriculum planning, implementation, assessment and monitoring
   • The program director must:
   • Administer and maintain an educational environment conducive to educating the residents in each of the ACGME competency areas.
   • Oversee and ensure the quality of didactic and clinical education in all sites that participate in the program.
   • Approve a local director at each participating site who is accountable for resident education.
   • Approve the selection of program faculty.
   • Evaluate program faculty and approve the continued participation of program faculty based on evaluation.
   • Monitor resident supervision at all participating sites.
   • Implement a process that links educational outcomes with program improvement.
   • Ensure at least annual review of the educational effectiveness of the program via a formal documented meeting for which written minutes are recorded.
3. Scholarly Achievements
   • The program director must:
   • Demonstrate active participation in national societies, evidence of ongoing scholarship, including medical education research, through contributions to the peer review literature, and presentations at national meetings.
4. Administration – ACGME Responsibilities
   • The program director must:
   • Maintains current knowledge of and compliance with ACGME institutional, common program and program requirements (www.acgme.org).
   • Prepare and submit all information required and requested by the ACGME, including but not limited to the program information forms and annual program resident updates to the Accreditation Data System, and ensure that the information submitted is accurate and complete.
   • Provide verification of residency education for all residents, including those who leave the program prior to completion.
   • Ensure compliance with grievance and due process procedures as set forth in the Institutional Requirements and implemented by the sponsoring institution.
   • Implement policies and procedures consistent with the institutional and program requirements for resident duty hours and the working environment, including moonlighting, and must:
   • (a) Distribute these policies and procedures to the residents and faculty;
   • (b) Monitor resident duty hours, according to sponsoring institutional policies, with a frequency sufficient to ensure compliance with ACGME requirements;
   • (c) Adjust schedules as necessary to mitigate excessive service demands and/or fatigue; and,
   • (d) Monitor the demands of at-home call and adjust schedules as necessary to mitigate excessive service demands and/or fatigue.
   • Monitor the need for and ensure the provision of back up support systems when patient care responsibilities are unusually difficult or prolonged.
   • Comply with the sponsoring institution’s written policies and procedures, including those specified in the Institutional Requirements, for selection, Milestone evaluation and reporting, and promotion of residents, disciplinary action, and supervision of residents.
   • Be familiar with and comply with ACGME and Review Committee policies and procedures as outlined in the ACGME Manual of Policies and Procedures.
   • Obtain review and approval of the sponsoring institution’s GMEC and DIO before submitting to the ACGME information or requests for the following:
   • (a) All applications for ACGME accreditation of new programs;
   • (b) Changes in resident complement;
   • (c) Major changes in program structure or length of training;
   • (d) Progress reports requested by the Review Committee;
   • (e) Responses to all proposed adverse actions; Pediatrics 7
   • (f) Requests for increases or any change to resident duty hours;
   • (g) Voluntary withdrawals of ACGME-accredited programs;
   • (h) Requests for appeal of an adverse action;
   • (i) Appeal presentations to a Board of Appeal or the ACGME; and,
   • (j) Proposals to ACGME for approval of innovative educational approaches.
   • Obtain DIO review and co-signature on all program information forms, as well as any correspondence or document submitted to the ACGME that addresses:
   • (a) Program citations, and/or
   • (b) Request for changes in the program that would have significant impact, including financial, on the program or institution.
   • 11. Update program and resident records through the ACGME accreditation data system annually.
   • 12. Prepare program Letters of Agreement with all clinical sites for which rotations of greater than 30 days are provided, and revises these program agreements at least every five years.
5. Administration – Institutional Responsibilities
   • The program director must:
   • Collaborate directly with educational partners and promote inter-institutional collaboration among faculty and residents.
   • Maintain current knowledge of and compliance with institutional GME policies and procedures.
   • Participate in Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC), subcommittees and task forces and internal review committees as requested, including ensuring program representation at all GMEC meetings.
   • Cooperate promptly and accurately with requests by the GMEC for information, documentation, etc.
   • Ensure that residents comply with periodic surveys by the ACGME (e.g., the ACGME Resident and Faculty Surveys).
   • Prepare documentation of internal review materials and reports as required by GMEC internal review protocol and submit information by the dates requested.
   • Develop action plans for correction of areas of noncompliance as identified by internal reviews, and provide periodic updates to the GMEC.
   • Ensure that written notice of intent not to renew a resident’s contract is provided no later than four months prior to the end of the resident’s current contract, unless there are extenuating circumstances.
   • Ensure the DIO reviews and co-signs all letters to any resident notifying him/her that he/she is on probation, suspension, termination or non-renewal of contract.
6. Administration – Program Responsibilities
   • The program director must:
   • Oversee the Associate Program Directors and Chiefs in managing the program.
   • Develop, implement and track dependable measures to assess residents’ skills in the general competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice
   • Obtain confidential, written evaluations of the faculty and of educational experiences by the residents at least annually.
   • Obtain confidential, written evaluations of educational experiences of the program by the faculty at least annually.
   • Ensure residents’ attendance at educational sessions required by the program
   • Provide oversight and liaisons with appropriate personnel of other institutions participating in the
   • Provide appropriate supervision of residents by faculty so as to allow progressively increasing responsibility by the resident according to his/her level of education ability and experience.
   • Create, implement and review annually program specific policies consistent with institutional GMEC policies for the following: resident selection, resident evaluation, resident promotion, resident dismissal, resident supervision, resident duty hours, moonlighting policy and written documentation for any resident participating in moonlighting.
   • Convene and monitor the Program Evaluation Committee.
   • Convene and monitor the Clinical Competency Committee for global review of evaluations and report of Milestones.
   • 11. Manage scheduling of residents including, but not limited to, creating clinical rotation, conference and on-call schedules
   • 12. Structure on-call schedules to provide readily available supervision to residents on duty, appropriate monitoring for fatigue and appropriate backup support when needed
   • 13. Ensure the program is in compliance with ACGME duty hour requirements and monitor, track and report resident duty hours.
   • 14. Maintain accurate and complete program files in compliance with ACGME requirements.
   • 15. Ensure resident well-being is addressed including access to medical care and programs to support mental well-being, monitoring for burnout, promoting self-care, creating a sense of community, and creating a learning environment that is inclusive and free from mistreatment.
   • 16. Ensure that each resident maintains an up-to-date training license.
   • 17. Attest to the capability of graduating residents to practice as independent practitioners.
7. Recruitment
   • The program director must:
   • Oversee the resident recruitment process and inform faculty and residents of the process annually.
   • Ensure that all interviewed residency applicants are provided, at a minimum, a written information sheet containing the Web site at which the terms and conditions of employment and the most recent resident contract may be found.
   • Implement and oversee a mission-based approach to recruit diverse trainees and offer an environment of inclusion
8. Supervision and mentorship
   • The program director must:
   • Create an advisor process that allows faculty to mentor residents in their individual career paths.
   • Provide each resident with documented semiannual evaluation of performance with feedback. (II.A.4.g)
   • Ensure that each resident develops a personal program (Individualized Learning Plan) of learning to foster continued professional and personal growth.
   • Facilitate residents’ participation in educational and scholarly activities.
   • Ensure that residents assume graduated responsibility for teaching and supervising other students and residents.
   • Provide instruction and experience with quality improvement and patient safety.
9. Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.

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