About this role
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, a leading academic health center, invites applications for a full-time Assistant/Associate Professor (Hospitalist) position in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Responsibilities as a member of the Hospitalist Team will include providing:
7-on/7-off block schedule: seven consecutive clinical days followed by seven days of non-clinical time.
Clinical care
- Provide high-quality, evidence-based care to acutely hospitalized adults at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, serving as attending of record on teaching and non-teaching services.
- Supervise residents, medical students, and advanced practice providers where assigned.
- Share night and weekend coverage equitably with fellow clinical faculty, with some night support provided by our nocturnist team.
- Participate in geographic rounding to support our subspecialty services, with opportunities in both supervisory (teaching) and independent (non-teaching) general medicine roles based on your interests and the Division’s needs.
- Collaborate with nursing, case management, pharmacy, and subspecialty teams to support safe, timely, patient-centered care and efficient throughput.
Education
- Teach medical students and residents at the bedside, in didactic conferences, seminars, lectures, and case presentations.
- Participate in Departmental meetings and teaching conferences.
- Serve as a role model for professionalism, communication, leadership, and clinical reasoning, and mentor learners, junior colleagues, and clinical staff.
Quality, systems, and leadership
- Participate in quality improvement, patient safety, and interdisciplinary performance improvement programs, including follow-up on patient and family concerns.
- Identify patient and family needs and help develop new programs or services to meet them.
- Work with UTHealth and hospital leadership to define Division direction and achieve goals in length of stay, throughput, and care transitions.
- Serve on or chair committees and workgroups as appropriate.
Scholarship and professional growth
- Pursue scholarly activity (QI, medical education, clinical research, or other) and support the Division’s education and research mission.
- Maintain professional growth through seminars, workshops, current literature, and professional affiliations.
Qualifications
- Texas Medical License or eligibility for licensure in Texas.
- Board-certified or eligible.