Director, Medical Quality (Remote)

The role

You will create and manage medical quality projects and clinical studies to improve care delivery. You will collaborate with medical leaders and frontline staff to implement quality and patient safety initiatives.

What you will do

• Create and manage medical quality projects from proposal to pilot implementation
• Ensure ongoing improvement and innovation of care delivery processes and systems
• Develop and implement pilots and clinical studies with medical leadership
• Work with field leaders on skill building and engagement in medical quality and patient safety programs
• Provide assistance to medical leadership teams for patient safety events and case reviews
• Identify frontline education and training opportunities
• Obtain frontline feedback about content, training, and medical quality needs
• Provide feedback on frontline training and resource needs to Medical Education and Medical Operations teams
• Create and disseminate new and updated VEG Medical Quality content
• Identify and create patient safety features in the VEG electronic health record

Required qualifications

• DVM, VMD, or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in emergency medicine
• 3+ years experience training, mentoring, and developing veterinary students, interns, and/or residents
• Multiple historical publications or equivalent experience that reflect skilled medical authorship
• Experience lecturing at universities and/or conferences
• State licensure that is in good standing OR eligibility for such licensure in at least 3 states with a VEG hospital
• A commitment to mentorship and elevating the next generation of vets
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Skilled at stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Clear and direct written and verbal communication
• Strong critical-thinking and creative problem-solving abilities
• Strong financial and data literacy skills

Nice to have

• DACVECC (or board-eligible) or equivalent
• 3+ years in academic emergency/specialty environment
• Medical leadership experience
• Project management experience

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Free therapy or counseling
• Paid parental leave, up to 12 weeks at 100% of regular salary
• Inclusive fertility and family-building care
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous employee referral program
• Casual office attire
• Ability to bring your fur baby to work
• VEG swag
• Food in the fridge
• Free lunches twice a week

About the company

VEG was born in 2014 with a mission to help people and their pets by challenging norms and fixing the ER experience. They have hospitals nationwide open 24/7/365.