Director, Medical Quality
Core
Lead medical quality initiatives, clinical studies, and patient safety programs to enhance clinically excellent care delivery for pets and their families.
Role type
Director, Medical Quality (Veterinary Emergency Medicine)
Builds
Clinical guidelines, treatment sheets, safety alerts in the EHR, and continuous improvement processes for hospital care delivery.
Domain
Veterinary Emergency Medicine / Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety
Required skills
DVM/VMD degree, DACVECC certification (or board-eligible), 5+ years emergency medicine experience, 3+ years training/mentoring experience, medical authorship/publications, lecturing experience, state licensure, project management
Preferred skills
Academic emergency/specialty environment experience, medical leadership experience, financial literacy, data literacy
Technologies
Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems
Responsibilities
Create and manage medical quality projects from proposal to pilot implementation; Develop and implement pilots and clinical studies with field leadership; Provide assistance to medical leadership for patient safety events and case reviews; Identify and create patient safety features in the EHR; Represent the organization at conferences and industry events.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on implementation