Instructor or higher- (Associate Director for Clinical Operations )

• Level One Trauma Center
• Academic Teaching for TTUHSC El Paso-DEM

Requisition ID #: 45885BR

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso) Department of Emergency Medicine is seeking physicians in the area of emergency medicine to become part of its team of professionals. The TTUHSC El Paso Department of Emergency Medicine staffs the emergency room of University Medical Center of El Paso, a Level I Trauma Center with approximately 60,000 visits annually.

Major/Essential Functions:

• Provides patient care in the Emergency Department.
• Supports the Clinical Operations Director with the daily operational oversight of the Emergency Department.
• Collaborates with departmental leadership, hospital administration, nursing leadership, medical staff, Emergency Medical Services, and other clinical departments.
• Assists with physician and advanced practice provider scheduling, staffing, and coverage planning based on patient volumes, clinical demand, and operational needs.
• Monitors staffing effectiveness and develops contingency plans to address coverage gaps, high volume periods, staffing shortages, emergency events, and operational disruptions.
• Assists the Department Chair and Clinical Operations Director with the development, implementation, and review of departmental policies, procedures, protocols, and standards of care.
• Reviews Emergency Department quality, safety, efficiency, productivity, throughput, and patient experience metrics.
• Participates in quality-improvement, patient-safety, chart-audit, peer-review, and clinical performance initiatives.
• Works with hospital leadership to improve patient flow, length of stay, boarding, consultation response, transfers, admissions, and discharge processes.
• Supervises, evaluates, mentors, and teaches residents, fellows, and medical students in the clinical setting.
• Participates in resident and faculty recruitment.
• Participates in morbidity and mortality conferences, journal clubs, departmental meetings, and educational activities.
• Serves as medical control physician for El Paso EMS while on duty in the Emergency Department.
• Participates in professional emergency medicine societies such as ACEP, SAEM, AAEM.
• Engages in advancement of scientific knowledge through research and/or scholarship
• Serves the academic community through participation in institutional governance, such as committee work and other administrative duties
• Contributes to the community through academically related public service complementary to the institutional mission.
• Ensures compliance with HIPAA and billing regulations.
• Adheres to institutional and departmental policies and procedures.
• Assists the Department Chair with the implementation of departmental policies and monitoring staffing effectiveness.
• Demonstrates professionalism in accordance with the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine's Declaration of Faculty Professional Responsibility.
• Upholds and promotes the values-based culture of TTUHSC El Paso.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Emergency Department clinical operations, physician leadership, scheduling, quality improvement, or patient safety
• Experience working with hospital administration, nursing leadership, Emergency Medical Services, and multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrated experience in using Emergency Department performance metrics, including quality, efficiency, throughput, and patient-experience metrics
• Demonstrated accomplishments in clinical practice, teaching, research, or scholarly activities related to Emergency Medicine.
• Current ACLS, PALS, and ATLS certifications
• Experience educating residents and medical students
• Board Certification in Emergency Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine for appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher
• Established or emerging regional or national reputation for the rank of associate professor or higher
• Demonstrated proficiency in medical Spanish

Required Qualifications:

• M.D. or D.O. degree
• Successful completion of ACGME-accredited residency program in emergency medicine
• Texas medical license, or eligible for medical licensure in the State of Texas

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