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Mile Square Health Center is hiring a full time Clinical Physician/Site Medical Director to join our patient care team in our Main clinic.

Job Responsibilities:

Under the administrative direction of the CMO, the Site Medical Director along with clinic responsibilities include independently performing physical examinations for a broad range of clients to diagnose and treat diseases, injuries, and other disorders. They are responsible for selecting and utilizing appropriate diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures for clients.

The Main Site clinic is Mile Square’s largest clinical site with 47 exam rooms. The practice is a diverse mix of family medicine, pediatrics, behavioral health, addiction, dental, midwifery, OB/GYN, and other medical subspecialities. The Site Medical Director is responsible for provider staff regarding schedules, productivity, quality, and other provider responsibilities. The Main site is also a continuity clinic for the UIC Department of Family and Community Medicine residency program. The Site Medical Director is responsible for creating and maintaining the preceptor schedule for the residents and is the main point of contact between Mile Square and the residency program.

Position includes:

• Oversight of provider attendance, compliance responsibilities and provider professionalism at the site.
• Assure individual provider quality of care in collaboration with the College of Medicine and College of Nursing, and the Allied Health division.
• Provide leadership and site championship in the monitoring and evaluation of site clinical quality, research, community engagement, care coordination activities and any external accreditation.
• Develop and meet productivity expectations. Must be adept at financials and metric interpretation for clinic and work with Operations to develop plans for improving site financial performance and patient satisfaction. Must perform reviews on all providers site.
• Execute Quality Improvement initiatives; manage Quality metrics for the site and create plans to improve measures as requested.
• Support a team based model of care and function as a leader in the training and implementation of such model, including provider onboarding.
• Manage provider time off to ensure consistent clinical coverage at designated site.
• Manage all organizational deadlines for learning modules, competency and clinical requirements, e.g. license, flu shots, CME, Infection Control.
• Attend all required meetings as assigned.
• Maintain all documentation, including lab results, and patient messaging to ensure leader examples for assigned team.
• Adhere to all approved MSHC/UIC policies and protocols regarding patient care standards.
• Examine patient and obtain medical history from patient, parents, guardians to prepare patient profile. Review developmental and medical history of patient.
• Participate in diagnostic staffing to correlate findings, determine diagnosis and develop appropriate treatment recommendations.
• Discuss findings and recommendations with client, parents, agencies, etc. as needed.
• Responsible for medication management (includes but is not limited to writing prescriptions, monitoring efficacy, monitoring adverse reactions).
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine degree from an ACGME accredited medical college.
• Board eligible or board certified in addiction medicine.
• Unrestricted Illinois license to practice medicine or Illinois license eligible.
• Current Valid American Heart Association BLS/CPR certification.

Salary & Benefits:

UI Health offers competitive benefit packages, including: vacation days, paid holidays, Floating Holidays, State University Retirement System, tuition waiver, tuition discount for dependents, and excellent medical, dental, and vision packages.

To Apply:

For fullest consideration, please submit a complete application and supplemental resume by November 17, 2024.