Medical Director of Medical Education

The Medical Director of Medical Education acts as leader and Fraser Health organizational liaison for all medical education that is provided to medical students, residents and clinical fellows at Fraser Health, fostering excellence in clinical training, research and innovation in medical education, in collaboration with the Director, Medical Education Strategy and Integration and the Learning Strategies team. This role is a key enabler of Fraser Health’s medical staff strategy, strengthening the physician workforce through aligned medical learning, and recruitment into Fraser Health region and medical staff. The Medical Director is responsible and reports to the Vice President, Medicine. The incumbent will work closely with the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, School of Medicine at SFU, Heads of Departments and Divisions, post-graduate educational Program Directors and committees, the Executive leadership in Medical Affairs and in Learning Strategies to expand and enhance the delivery of educational programs such that trainees ideally choose to join Fraser Health medical staff.

In addition to advancing a positive training experience for trainees in medicine at Fraser Health, the Medical Director will seek opportunities to engage trainees in Fraser Health organizational priorities and will seek to address the impact at Fraser Health of changes to training programs, including competency based medical education, distributed teaching, and shift in trainee allocations.

In addition to supporting trainees, preceptors and program leadership in alignment with Fraser Health’s strategic goals, the Medical Director of Medical Education will serve as Co-chair of the Joint Initiatives Steering Committee, ensuring successful integration of Simon Fraser University School of Medicine clinical learning experiences within Fraser Health, and health authority liaison to the centralized Resident Employment Office being developed at Vancouver Coastal Health, ensuring that Fraser Health’s obligations to employee Resident Doctors are met, including matters relating to health authority policies and regulated employer responsibilities (i.e. health and safety, respectful workplace, and other obligations under related employment agreements).

Time Commitment: 0.4 FTE

Reporting Relationship

The Medical Director of Medical Education is accountable to and reports to the Vice President of Medicine, Fraser Health, and works closely with the Executive Medical Directors in Medical Affairs and Executive Director, Learning Strategies.

Performance shall be reviewed annually with the VP Medicine and will include a peer review and/or 360 type of process.

Major Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Leadership

• Provide visionary leadership, oversight and consultation to all Fraser-based postgraduate medical education programs, particularly in areas of health authority responsibility, ensuring adherence to accreditation standards.
• Develop strategic goals for advancing medical education at Fraser Health, aligned with the organization’s broader clinical training/learning strategy, in collaboration with health authority leadership.
• Collaborates with leaders from the UBC Faculty of Medicine and SFU School of Medicine, and internal Fraser Health medical staff leadership to determine annual postgraduate expansion priorities and supports the VP Medicine in alignment discussions with the Ministry of Health.
• Represents the Fraser Health VP Medicine portfolio at senior advisory and/or decision-making bodies such as the Joint Initiatives Steering Committee, Resident Allocation Subcommittee, Core-Med committee, Shared Learning Environment Advisory Committee (SLEAC), committees focused on Resident Doctors collective agreement, and other committees at the discretion of the VP Medicine including playing a supportive role at Joint Advisory Committees.
• Chair Fraser Health Medical Education Committee.
• Identifies opportunities for interprofessional learning, shared learning spaces, and integration of Indigenous knowledge systems, in collaboration with Indigenous Health and Learning Strategies, as part of our collective commitment to reconciliation.
• Serve as Fraser Health liaison for medical school accreditation.

2. Program Planning and Management

• Evaluates the quality of medical education training programs as it relates to the integration of teaching and clinical services, through learner evaluations and internal data sets, and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Identifies discrepancies between health authority policies and Resident Doctor employer responsibilities, including health, safety, respectful workplace, and obligations under applicable employment agreements.
• In collaboration with Fraser Health Department and Division Heads, advocate with UBC Faculty of Medicine to increase senior resident allocations in Fraser Health and development of Fraser Health specific training programs in areas that reflect Fraser Health’s needs.
• Maintaining close links with postgraduate bodies at both the UBC Faculty of Medicine and SFU School of Medicine.
• Serve as conduit and organizational liaison for any initiative to implement a management information system for resident clinical rotation scheduling.

3. Provide local oversight for Resident Doctors during their training at Fraser Health

• Development and/or influence on health authority policies that impact resident doctors.
• Conducting investigations into culpable conduct, including follow-up in the event of policy breach, and implementing the Resident Doctors Collective Agreement’s progressive discipline.
• Ensure Resident Doctors are informed of occupational risks and receive appropriate training and supervision.
• Ensure timely investigations and reports for incidents as required by the Workers Compensation Act and OHS Regulations.
• Development and implementation of standard pathways for general onboarding and service/unit-specific orientation.
• Ensures the health authority immediately investigates, addresses and remedies hazardous conditions and work refusals as required by legislation.
• Ensures that allegations of improper workplace conduct, including bullying and harassment, are investigated and addressed appropriately.

Qualifications:

• A physician licensed to practice in BC and member of the Medical Staff of Fraser Health Authority.
• Holds both a UBC Faculty of Medicine and SFU School of Medicine faculty appointment.
• Previous experience in a medical education leadership role; advanced degree in medical education, healthcare administration or a related field is favoured.
• Strong track record of scholarly and/or academic activity.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the creation of organizational strategy and leading programs and teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in accreditation processes and/or other pertinent facets of medical education.
• Strong leadership and management skills, with a track record of fostering collaboration and teamwork, particularly with partner organizations.
• Physically able to perform the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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