This position ensures that Tenet Health Hospitals provide a structured, safe and conducive learning environment for our academic affairs which includes Undergraduate Medical Education (UME), Continuing Medical Education (CME), and Clinical Research. Playing a key role in shaping the clinical education experience for our graduate medical education, physicians, and medical students by ensuring high quality educational opportunities. The role oversees the development, execution, and growth of clinical research operations, including industry-sponsored studies, investigator-initiated research, and collaborative academic partnerships. Serves as a key advisor to executive leadership and is accountable for research quality, financial performance, operational efficiency, and long-term strategic growth. Key Responsibilities: Undergraduate Medical Education Plan and coordinate a structured clerkship program with participating hospitals, including defining goals and expected learning outcomes, ensuring the program meets the evolving needs of medical education. Provide direction, leadership, and oversight of the clerkship program, ensuring its integration within our health systems and institutions. Manage the budgeting and resource allocation for clerkship-related activities, including faculty compensation, clerkship materials, and educational resources. Develop, implement, and continuously improve the curriculum for medical student clerkships across various specialties (e.g., internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry). Ensure that educational objectives align with institutional and accreditation standards. Drives recruitment strategies to our GME programs through UME rotations and experiences. Ensure the clinical learning environment complies with LCME (Liaison Committee on Medical Education) standards. Oversee the collection and analysis of data related to student performance, feedback, and overall program effectiveness. Prepare reports for stakeholders, including accreditation bodies and academic leaders. Continuing Medical education Develop and implement the overall strategy for CME programming aligned with organizational goals. Ensure CME activities meet the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or relevant accrediting bodies. Oversee funding sources, including grants, sponsorships, and participant fees, in alignment with ACCME Standards for Commercial Support. Collaborate with executive leadership, clinical departments, and academic partners to identify educational needs and priorities. Maintain accreditation status and ensure compliance with all applicable regulations (e.g., ACCME, state boards). Stay up to date on changes in CME regulations and standards. Act as a liaison between hospital medical staff, hospital leadership, accrediting bodies, and external educational partners. Promote CME opportunities internally and externally through effective communication strategies Clinical Research: Develop and execute the national strategic vision for clinical research across all hospitals, outpatient centers, and affiliated physician groups. Lead enterprise-wide research operations with a focus on growth, scalability, quality, and innovation. Partner with executive leadership, service line leaders, physicians, and external stakeholders to align research initiatives with organizational priorities. Establish and maintain a culture of accountability, collaboration, patient safety, and operational excellence. Identify opportunities for expansion into new therapeutic areas, markets, and research partnerships. Represent the organization at national research, healthcare, and industry forums. Provide direct oversight of multi-site clinical research operations, including research administration, study start-up, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, budgeting, contracting, and patient recruitment. Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), study metrics, enrollment targets, timelines, and financial outcomes. Oversee resource allocation, staffing models, and infrastructure planning to support organizational growth. Education: Required: Master's Degree Experience: Required: At least 5 years of leadership experience in medical education, ideally in a clerkship setting. Experience managing clinical research. Preferred: Executive leadership experience in academic medical administration, specifically managing or directing a medical student clerkship program, clinical education program, graduate medical education or continue medical education. Skills & Competencies: Leadership & Management: Ability to lead, manage, and motivate faculty, hospital leadership, preceptors, and staff. Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively interact with students, faculty, clinical preceptors, and external partners. Curriculum Development: Proven experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating medical education curricula and teaching methodologies. Organizational Skills: Excellent organizational abilities with attention to detail in managing schedules, records, and evaluations. Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Ability to resolve issues effectively and make data-informed decisions that benefit students and faculty. Technological Proficiency: Proficiency in educational technologies, learning management systems, and office software (Microsoft Office Suite, databases, etc.). Financial Acumen: Understands cost-benefit analysis, development and managing budgets and aligning financial decision making with strategic goals. Working Conditions: Work from home with expectations of 25% travel Occasional evening or weekend work may be required Travel to clinical partner sites or conferences Selected candidate will be required to pass a Motor Vehicle Records check. Compensation Base pay: $140-$180 annually. Compensation depends on location, qualifications, and experience. Position may be eligible for an Annual Incentive Plan bonus of 10%-50% depending on role level. Management level positions may be eligible for sign-on and relocation bonuses. Benefits The following benefits are available, subject to employment status: Medical, dental, vision, disability, AD&D, and life insurance Manager Time Off - 20 days per year Discretionary 401k match 10 paid holidays per year Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance. Paid sick leave and other leave benefits are provided in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Who We Are We are a community built on care. Our caregivers and supporting staff extend compassion to those in need, helping to improve the health and well-being of those we serve, and provide comfort and healing. Your community is our community. Our Story We started out as a small operation in California. In May 1969, we acquired four hospitals, some additional care facilities and real estate for the future development of hospitals. Over the years, we've grown tremendously in size, scope and capability, building a home in new markets over time, and curating those homes to provide a compassionate environment for those entrusting us with their care. We have a rich history at Tenet. There are so many stories of compassionate care; so many "firsts" in terms of medical innovation; so many examples of enhancing healthcare delivery and shaping a business that is truly centered around patients and community need. Tenet and our predecessors have enabled us to touch many different elements of healthcare and make a difference in the lives of others. Our Impact Today Today, we are leading health system and services platform that continues to evolve in lockstep with community need. Tenet's operations include three businesses - our hospitals and physicians, USPI and Conifer Health Solutions. Our impact spreads far and deep with 65 hospitals and approximately 510 outpatient centers and additional sites of care. We are differentiated by our top notch medical specialists and service lines that are tailored within each community we serve. The work Conifer is doing will help provide the foundation for better health for clients across the country, through the delivery of healthcare-focused revenue cycle management and value-based care solutions. Together as an enterprise, we work to save lives and can accept nothing less than excellence from ourselves in service of our patients and their families, every day. Careers at Tenet At Tenet Healthcare, the heart of what we do centers on caring with compassion, which ultimately creates a bond between our caregivers and patients. Everyone contributes to these moments, whether providing care directly or supporting those who do. As an organization, we provide employees with resources, tools and support to serve our patients and customers in the best way possible. We also take care of one another, helping team members further develop their career pathways and maximize their potential.