Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurological Surgery

Position Description:

This appointment is a 12-month, full-time clinical academic fellowship in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City, NY, USA.

The purpose of this fellowship is to provide the experience and tools to develop and implement quality improvement programs in neurosurgery and neurological critical care based on patient outcomes and hospital data. Graduates will be prepared to lead departmental quality improvement programs and perform outcomes and clinical research.

Responsibilities:

• The fellow will attend and participate in all departmental quality meetings and in selected institutional quality meetings involving neurosurgery, including multidisciplinary morbidity and mortality conferences and bi-campus root cause analysis conferences.
• The fellow will help coordinate and supervise the departmental M&M conferences
• The fellow will help to supervise and coordinate the enrollment of patients into appropriate prospective databases such as the American Spine Registry and tumor registries.
• The fellow will provide clinical supervision to residents and chief residents in the Department of Neurological Surgery for patient consultations and will be responsible for supervising Chief Residents in managing the neurosurgical consultative service. This will include daily rounding on the service and discussion of the patients with the chief residents and, when necessary, coordinating care with attending physicians from other services.
• The fellow will complete a major, year-long capstone quality initiative project either within the Department of Neurological Surgery or in collaboration with other clinical departments. This project will focus on a topic of patient safety or quality of care and may involve the development of new care pathways, quality assessment methods, safety protocols. The fellow will present the results of the project at departmental grand rounds and will submit the work to a national neurosurgery meeting (AANS, CNS, Joint Spine Section) or spine meeting (SRS)

Qualifications

Applicants must be board-eligible or board-certified in Neurological Surgery and have a license to practice medicine in New York State before the start of the Quality and Patient Outcomes fellowship in July 2022.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $86,888.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

COVID-19 considerations:
COVID-19 considerations:
Please refer to the following link to review the Columbia University COVID 19 Safety Guidelines/Requirements and COVID 19 Vaccine Mandate https://covid19.columbia.edu/

Work Location: One location