Founding Residency Program Director, Anesthesia

Job ID: EB-9537531840
Job Title: Founding Residency Program Director, Anesthesia
Location: Memphis, TN

Department of Anesthesiology Opportunities
Founding Anesthesia Residency Program Director and Clinical Specialty Faculty
Methodist Le Bonheur University Hospital

Are You Ready to Help Lead the Future of Anesthesia Care at Memphis’s Award-Winning Healthcare System?
Join Top Physician Leadership at one of the newest Anesthesia residencies in Tennessee!

Memphis, Tennessee-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and its anesthesia provider, Somnia Anesthesia, have partnered to continue building and training full spectrum anesthesiologists in the highly competitive Memphis and Mid-South Tennessee region, with the goal of expanding access to quality care in rural areas. Ranked a Best Workplace in Healthcare and the second-largest private employer in Memphis, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) is an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system that has provided comprehensive, cost-effective patient-and-family-centered care since 1918.

MLH has a longstanding commitment to Graduate Medical Education as an academic community hospital; and are creating solutions to support the expansion of anesthesiology training programs. MLH and the Department of Anesthesiology are inviting Anesthesiologists who share our commitment to join the subspecialized, patient-focused practice within the multifaceted department in vibrant Memphis, TN. Candidates currently serving as core faculty in an ACGME-accredited anesthesia residency or related subspecialty fellowship are highly encouraged to apply. This is a terrific opportunity for an ambitious current APD or PD to construct a brand-new program.

The positions we are recruiting for include:

1. a Program Director (PD) for an ACGME Anesthesiology Residency Program; and
2. subspecialty Faculty including Obstetrics and/or Critical Care and/or Transplant Anesthesiology as Section Chiefs and/or Fellowship Directors.

The Anesthesiology Residency & Fellowship Programs are start-up efforts. The PD and Faculty will have a blank slate to innovate and put in the systems and processes of their own choosing.

Why this opportunity?

• Excellent community and exceptional workplace to deliver outstanding results.
• MLH is financially stable and well-resourced to pursue its academic vision.
• Faculty who decide to make Methodist the next stop in their professional journey will have an abundance of opportunity to develop their clinical acumen and to advance and apply their leadership skills.
• Stand-alone private practice covering all the adult anesthesia services.
• Anesthesia Care Team model with physician supervision of CRNA.
• PD will be committed to teaching residents and training future workforce from Tri-State area.
• Program fully Sponsored/Funded for (7-7-7) Resident Class Size.
• Multidisciplinary Professionalism & Support from established IM Program.
• Enjoy a low cost-of-living in one of the Happiest Cities to Work in the USA!
• Systemwide support – employee training, flexibility, and faster decision-making for the greater good in an ACGME clinical learning environment (CLE).
• This individual will be focused on addressing the critical shortages of anesthesiologists and CRNAs, as well as health equity needs through supporting the development and the expansion of Anesthesiology services.

While working in Memphis, you can thrive in a vast, culture-rich community in what is known as the City of Soul. Surrounded by a rolling hill landscape, Memphis blends a friendly community, a vibrant music scene, a flourishing downtown, year-round outdoor recreation (waterfalls, hiking), and a low cost-of-living. With many theatres, museums, parks, shopping, and major sporting events, there is always something to do and a reason to call Memphis home.

Anesthesia Data – Methodist Le Bonheur:

• The Department of Anesthesiology is responsible for servicing MLH’s five adult, short-term, acute care hospitals that account for over 1,600 beds and perform nearly 25,000 diagnostic, therapeutic or palliative procedures.
• The department has been collaborating with the Transplant Team to re-imagine the Transplant ICU, including staffing with double boarded anesthesiologists (Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine).
• Anesthesia Care Team of ~30 physician anesthesiologists; 100 FTE
• >40,000 cases | Case logs of >250 for Anesthesiologists + 350 cases for CRNA >40 anesthetizing locations | 5 facilities
• General, Cardiac ICU, Vascular, Neuro, Ortho, ENT, GI, GYN, Plastics, Obstetrical + NORA1
• Subspecialty areas: Cardiac, Neuro, Organ Transplantation (nationally-recognized leader in solid organ transplants for over 40 years, averaging 300-400 annual cases), OB (~6K deliveries), and Pediatrics at one of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals (Le Bonheur Children’s is covered by their own anesthesia group), etc.
• Our 5-year plan includes development of an Anesthesiology Residency, creation of both ACGME and non-ACGME fellowships, comprehensive Pain Service (Acute and Chronic), developing a Methodist-Specific CRNA Program, and interdigitation of the Department of Anesthesiology with a fulsome PeriOperative Medicine Service.

Position Summary:

The Anesthesiology Residency Program Director [“PD”] is responsible for the strategic vision, long-term planning, and direction of the program that meets and exceeds ACGME requirements in collaboration with the Designated Institutional Official. The PD is expected to champion MLH’s culture and lead in the HRO journey with safety as an operational priority. Also, the PD fulfills all ACGME requirements, such commitments to mentorship of faculty and learners.

Preferred and/or Required Experience:

Beyond being Board Certified in Anesthesiology and/or either an applicable ACGME-recognized subspecialty (i.e., Critical Care Medicine, Obstetrical Anesthesiology), or a non-ACGME recognized subspecialty (i.e., Transplant Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesiology, Trauma Anesthesiology), it is expected that applicants will have one or more of the following experiences and/or accomplishments:

• Teaching residents and/or fellows
• Scholarly accomplishments[1]
• Program Director*, Fellowship Director*, Assistant/Associate Program Director*
• Case logs demonstrating 250+ cases in area of expertise
• License and DEA Certificates in Tennessee and Mississippi

*Preferably with Program start-up experience

[1] peer reviewed posters, PBLDs, lectures, panels, articles, case reports, ACCME lectures, etc.

Application Instructions:

Applicants are asked to apply online by clicking the “Apply Now” button below. All inquiries and expressions of interest should be submitted to Elaine Auerbach at eauerbach@kbic.com and/or academicmedicine@kbic.com

MLH is an EEO/Affirmative Action employer.