Description
About Dell Medical School
As part of The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation’s leading research universities, the Dell Medical School pursues innovation in the redesign of healthcare delivery, excellence in healthcare research, and programs in interdisciplinary and inter-professional education. It is the fifth medical school in the UT System and the first medical school established in nearly five decades by a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading public and private research universities. An extraordinary commitment of resources, both public and private, has already been made to enable the development and success of the Dell Medical School including now the planning for two additional hospital towers which will create the University of Texas at Austin Medical Center. The School is partnering closely with the community and regional healthcare providers and payers to provide new models for health promotion, healthcare delivery, and clinical care for the community’s entire population. The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to excellence within the learning health system.
About the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care
The Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care is comprised of faculty in broad specialties (anesthesiology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, emergency medicine, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery and urology) with a focus on delivering outstanding care to the community.
The Department’s mission is: Transforming the health and lives of the diverse communities we serve through innovation in surgical care, research and education.
To accomplish this our priorities are:
- To develop new models of person-centered, multidisciplinary care that reward value.
- To educate and train future health care leaders.
- To develop research programs to evaluate new care delivery paradigms.
Our departmental Cultural Norms is a value system that highlights attributes we aspire to and use as a framework to guide us each day. One of those is we seek work/life balance and acknowledge that we are more than our work.
About the position
The faculty member will be an integral part of the rapidly expanding urology practice at UT Health Austin, a part of UT Medicine, the clinical practice of Dell Medical School. The current urologic service is composed of two specialists in minimally invasive surgery / endourology, two urologist oncologists and one Male Sexual Health urologist.
The individual should have interest in developing an ambitious specialty-focused urology practice in which un-insured, under-insured patients, and fully insured patients all receive care in the same clinic. We see referrals from other urologists locally and regionally. Additionally, the applicant should have an interest in multidisciplinary complex pelvic reconstruction, as our primary inpatient facility is home to plastic surgeons, colorectal surgeons and gynecologists who collaborate with urologists in care of patients with challenging reconstruction needs. Outpatient surgery is performed in the UT Heath Austin Ambulatory Surgery Center, a new state-of-the art facility.
With regards to research, opportunities abound for collaborative research with faculty at The University of Texas at Austin. With regards to teaching, medical students are frequently assigned to our service, and we host a urologic resident from the military program in San Antonio year-round.
Essential Functions
- Serve as a clinical content expert on genitourinary reconstruction at UT Health Austin as a part of UT Medicine at the University of Texas.
- Evolve and expand the genitourinary reconstruction program within Dell Medical School’s Health Transformation Building and other sites of service.
- Develop partnerships with referring physicians, hospitals, and ancillary providers in Austin and Central Texas.
- Assist in the training and management of the clinical team.
- Participate in strategic planning and other efforts directly tied to the development and growth of the genitourinary reconstruction practice.
- Assist in the creation of a data and evaluation infrastructure for regularly assessing the clinical quality and cost outcomes for patients with genitourinary reconstruction needs.
Train and mentor medical students and residents on new models of care and clinical practice. - Participate in the development and implementation of Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education curricula related to evaluation and management of genitourinary reconstruction.
- Develop and foster an atmosphere of scientific and academic inquiry in conjunction with trainees and researchers within the multidisciplinary team.
- Collaborate with other schools at The University of Texas at Austin on multidisciplinary, value-based care models
- Actively participate in the academic department by all required departmental policies.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Medical degree from an accredited medical school.
- Unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Texas (or the ability to obtain prior to appointment);
- Current Board certification by the American Board of Urology, or eligible for certification by having passed the Qualifying Examination
- Fellowship training in genitourinary reconstruction.
- Eligible for appointment as an Assistant, Associate or full Professor rank in the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.
Interested and qualified candidates should apply here.
