Assoc. Professor - Nursing jobs in Illinois

Position Summary

The candidate will assist the department teaching medical students, residents and fellows in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Other duties include assisting the department: provide clinical patient care in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in the hospital and clinics via tele-medicine.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Teach infectious disease topics to medical students in lectures, seminars, clinics, and wards.
• Develop and deliver resident education in the subspecialty of Infectious Disease by providing rotations for residents on an infectious disease service, giving infectious disease core lectures, and attending morning report and other conferences.
• Serve on appropriate educational committees at the College of Medicine.
• Serve on appropriate hospital committees to improve the quality of patient care, for example, hospital formulary, infection control, or antimicrobial stewardship committees.
• Perform inpatient and outpatient care and telemedicine consultation as a consulting and attending infectious disease physician specialist.
• Work 1-2 half-days per week in the ambulatory care of HIV-infected and/or infectious disease patients.
• Opportunity to participate as a general internal medicine hospitalist attending physician on the resident teaching service.
• Deliver 1-2 lectures per year during medicine grand rounds on topics of relevance to general internists.
• Support and develop the research and scholarly activities of the Department of Medicine and the Section of Infectious Disease.
• Function as a faculty person within the statutes of the University of Illinois.
• Function as staff member within the bylaws of the university-affiliated hospital(s).
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Chair of the Department of Medicine
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.