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Psychiatry Residency Program Director

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Application Deadline: April 25, 2025

Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, the third largest free standing psychiatric hospital in the country is searching for a psychiatry residency program director. In partnership with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Pine Rest welcomes 12 psychiatry residents each year to our campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

This is a 20 hour per week position, with additional clinical and supervision duties to fill remaining FTE hour requirements. Please see the full job description below. 

https://www.pinerest.org/ 

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Psychiatry Residency Program Director Job Description

Qualifications:

-MD or DO degree.

-ABPN Board Certification in Psychiatry.

-Unrestricted license to practice medicine in the state of Michigan.

-Experience as a teaching faculty position in a residency program, preferably in a leadership role.

-Five years of progressive faculty experience after residency training.

-Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively in complex interdisciplinary and interprofessional settings.

-Passion for and commitment to graduate medical education for purposes of optimizing patient outcomes and training psychiatrists for future independent practice.

The Program Director is assigned the following duties:

Education

-Provide or ensure the provision of specialty specific level-appropriate education of residents in the psychiatry residency program, ensuring that such education adequately prepares, in conjunction with their own studying, residents for the specialty board exams as well as for active clinical practice as manifest by passing rates at or near one hundred percent for graduates of our program.

-Develop and execute a successful psychiatry residency lecture curriculum.

-Lead the design of faculty development programs according to ACGME guidelines.

-Develop and oversee the allocation of residents in their rotation assignments in order to satisfy ACGME requirements for successful completion of psychiatry residency.

-Implement structural and educational changes to the program to address identified weaknesses or implement improvements to the psychiatry residency curriculum.

-Provide emergency/vacation resident supervision for the resident inpatient units and the residency outpatient clinic.

-Aid residents in generating ideas and facilitating connection with mentors for development of a required scholarly project.

-Attend all Wednesday noon lectures in person when not on PTO.

-Attend and participate in academic conferences and scholarly activities.

-Review resident logs to ensure adequate numbers of procedures are obtained for educational competence.

-Organize, facilitate, and implement resident retreats, ensuring an academic component as appropriate.

-Continued evaluation and development of internal and external clinical rotations to meet resident educational needs.

Evaluation

-Evaluate the psychiatry residency educational program (as a whole and by postgraduate level) at least annually to determine strengths, weaknesses, and adherence to educational objectives.

-Give feedback to residents at twice yearly meetings. At these meetings, the resident’s evaluations are reviewed, common themes discussed, and a plan to remediate any issues/weaknesses is formulated.

-Evaluate specific rotations to determine strengths, weaknesses, and adherence to educational objectives.

-Develop and maintain a system of competency-based evaluation of psychiatry residents by their attendings and supervisors.

-Develop and maintain a system of competency-based evaluation of attendings and lectures/lecturers by psychiatry residents.

-Develop and maintain a system of 360-degree competency-based evaluation for psychiatry residents, which includes evaluation of the psychiatry resident by their attending, supervising resident, nursing staff, and patients/parents.

-Develop and maintain a teaching evaluation system whereby residents can evaluate their attending physicians at the completion of each rotation.

-Monitor completion of evaluations by residents.

-Monitor completion of evaluations by faculty.

Recruitment

-Identify and recruit chief resident candidates and other resident leaders for committees.

-Provide recruitment, interviewing and selection assistance of the residents for the residency program.

-Participate in the development of recruitment strategies for psychiatry interns.

-Participate in the evaluation of prior season’s recruitment process.

-Assist with the orientation of new residents into the program each year.

-Provide leadership and guidance in recruiting a diverse class of residents, reflective of the region.

-Work towards recruiting a diverse faculty body with various professional interests. 

-Faculty recruitment and retention.

Mentoring

-Ensure the quality of care provided by residents in the program is of the highest caliber and that any lapses in quality are appropriately investigated, resolved, and used to improve processes and education.

-Meet with residents as deemed necessary for problem solving and career counseling.

-Provide appropriate guidance to faculty members in their roles within the residency.

Administration

-Lead and delegate residency work as deemed appropriate to associate program directors and other core faculty.

-Interact and support the psychiatry chief residents in their assigned duties.

-Attend chief resident meetings to discuss residency related issues and assist with problem solving.

-Assist in the selection of residents for annual teaching and service awards.

-Meet with the associate program directors weekly to discuss programmatic issues and other duty assignments.

-Write letters of recommendation for residents applying for jobs and fellowship positions.

-Attend all residency special events and meetings including (but not limited to): orientation, rank meeting, faculty development meetings, graduation, etc.

-Attend annual AADPRT meeting.

Regulatory Compliance

-ACGME Defined Program Director Responsibilities:

-Role model of professionalism.

-Design and conduct the program in a fashion consistent with the needs of the community, the mission of the sponsoring Institution, and the mission of the program.

-Administer and maintain a learning environment conducive to educating the residents in each of the ACGME competency domains.

-Develop and oversee a process to evaluate candidates prior to approval as program faculty members for participation in the residency program education and at least annually thereafter.

-Have the authority to approve and remove faculty members for participation in the residency program education at all sites.

-Submit accurate and complete information required and requested by the DIO, GMEC, and ACGME.

-Provide applicants who are offered an interview with the information related to the applicant’s eligibility for ABPN examination.

-Provide a learning and working environment in which residents can raise concerns and provide feedback in a confidential manner as appropriate, without fear of intimidation or retaliation.

-Ensure the program’s compliance with the sponsoring Institution’s policies and procedures related to grievances and due process.

-Ensure the program’s compliance with the sponsoring institution’s policies and procedures for due process when action is taken to suspend or dismiss, not to promote or not to renew the appointment of a resident.

-Ensure the program’s compliance with the sponsoring Institution’s policies and procedures on employment and non-discrimination.

-Document verification of program completion for all graduating residents within 30 days.

-Provide verification of an individual resident’s completion upon the resident’s request within 30 days.

-Obtain review and approval of the sponsoring institution’s DIO before submitting information or requests to the ACGME, as required in the institutional requirements and outlined in the ACGME Program Director’s Guide to the Common Program Requirements.

-Monitor resident compliance with duty hour rules and if violations identified, address and resolve the issue.

-Ensure residents are meeting programmatic requirements that fulfill the ACGME accreditation and ABPN board certification eligibility.

Other

-Perform other duties and requirements as deemed helpful to the Designated Institutional Official/Chief Medical Officer (DIO/CMO).

-Assist in developing novel approaches to educating residents and ensuring a more robust academic environment at Pine Rest.

-Keep abreast of changes in the general well-being of the residents, faculty, and staff of the program.

-Keep the DIO and administration aware of issues affecting the residents, faculty, and staff of the program.

-Assign duties of the Associate Program Directors as deemed necessary.

-Annual review with the DIO.

Contact Information:

Susan Sanford
Physician Recruiter
susan.sanford@pinerest.org
300 68th Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49548
517-331-8670