Section Chief of Community Surgery (Associate Professor or Professor)
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Description
1. Clinical Leadership & Quality of Care
- Oversee and coordinate clinical services delivered by community‐based surgical faculty and affiliated practice sites.
- Ensure the Section meets or exceeds standards for quality, safety, outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost effectiveness.
- Align clinical practice with institutional priorities (e.g. value‐based care, population health).
- Participate in surgical cases and/or have a clinical practice appropriate to the rank.
2. Faculty Affairs & Mentorship
- Recruit, retain, mentor, and develop faculty in the community surgery division.
- Promote faculty scholarly activity, including publications, presentations, grant work, and continuous professional development.
- Provide performance evaluations, goal setting, and development plans.
- Foster equitable and inclusive workplace culture, with particular attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
3. Education & Training
- Oversee and/or participate in teaching residents, medical students, and possibly fellows in community surgical settings.
- Ensure experiential opportunities in community surgery are integrated into the training curriculum.
- Develop educational programming for practicing surgeons and other stakeholders in community settings.
4. Research & Scholarship
- Encourage and support community‐focused research: outcomes, health services, disparities, access, delivery of surgical care in under‐served populations, implementation science, etc.
- Seek extramural funding and collaborative partnerships.
- Promote translation of research into improved community practice.
5. Strategic Planning & Program Development
- Develop and implement strategic plans for growth of community surgery, consistent with departmental and institutional goals.
- Identify new service line opportunities, partnerships with community hospitals or clinics, outreach programs, mobile surgery clinics, etc.
- Support innovation in tele‐surgery, remote monitoring, pre/post‐operative care networks, and initiatives improving access.
6. Operational, Administrative, and Financial Stewardship
- Operational oversight for the Section: staffing, resource allocation in community sites.
- Coordinate with hospital administration, finance, operations to ensure sustainability.
- Monitor metrics: volume, quality, cost, patient access, utilization, efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, credentialing, licensing, and credentialing requirements for all community‐based sites.
7. Community Engagement & Outreach
- Build partnerships with community hospitals, clinics, public health entities, non‐profits.
- Represent the Section in community settings; promote public health, surgical prevention programs.
- Engage in programs to improve surgical access, reduce disparities, improve patient education.
8. Institutional Role & Collaboration
- Participate in departmental leadership (chairs’ meetings, committees).
- Collaborate with other sections, departments (e.g. public health, primary care) to align community surgery with broader institutional mission.
- Represent the Section and Department at regional/national meetings; establish/maintain reputation.