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Job description
Founding Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
Ground-Floor Academic Leadership Opportunity | Central Valley, CA
Exceptional Earnings: $550,000 $600,000++
The Best of Both Worlds: Shape the Future of GME & Achieve Top-Tier Earnings
Are you a visionary intensivist ready to build a lasting legacy? We are seeking a dynamic physician leader to serve as our Founding Critical Care Fellowship Program Director. This unique position offers an extraordinary blend of academic impact, clinical autonomy, and premier financial rewards.
As Founding Program Director, you won't just step into a pre-existing system you will architect the entire training environment from the ground up, designing the curriculum, selecting core faculty, establishing the educational culture, and mentoring the next generation of critical care leaders, all while maintaining an active bedside clinical practice.
Compensation & Practice Highlights
Unmatched Earning Potential: Highly competitive intensivist clinical compensation coupled with a dedicated Program Director leadership stipend. Total annual compensation easily exceeds $550,000, with top-tier clinical schedules reaching $600,000++.
Balanced Workload: Manageable clinical commitment of ~10 ICU shifts per month, giving you ample protected administrative time to drive program development.
Lifestyle-Friendly Schedule: Daytime focus with night shifts capped at ~30% of your clinical schedule.
Robust GME Ecosystem: Work side-by-side with GME leadership and executive teams in a hospital that already hosts thriving Internal Medicine and Transitional Year Residencies. Fellowship accreditation is targeted for 2028.
About The Practice Group
Join a premier, 100% physician-owned group with a stellar 11.5-year history of excellence serving the region. Spanning 5 sites with nearly 40 full-time and part-time physicians and a dedicated team of 8 10 EM APPs, our multidisciplinary team spans Critical Care, Pulmonology, Neurocritical Care, Hospitalist Medicine, and Emergency Medicine. Our commitment to provider satisfaction is reflected in our outstanding >95% physician retention rate!
Key Leadership Responsibilities
Design, implement, and refine the Critical Care Fellowship curriculum and educational competencies.
Recruit, lead, and mentor high-caliber core GME faculty.
Lead the ACGME accreditation application and site review processes.
Establish robust feedback, evaluation, and didactic educational frameworks.
Architect fellow recruitment, interview, and selection strategies ahead of launch.
Instill an environment of academic inquiry, scholarship, professionalism, and clinical rigor.
ICU & Clinical Environment
State-of-the-Art Facilities: 24-bed Main ICU + dedicated 8-bed Neurocritical Care ICU.
Manageable Census: 12 15 patients per intensivist for optimal patient care and teaching quality.
Team Coverage: 2 intensivists on day shifts (7:00 AM 7:00 PM); 1 dedicated night intensivist (7:00 PM 7:00 AM).
Growth & Innovation: Dedicated neurosurgical and neurointerventional support on site, with active hospital initiatives underway to develop a comprehensive cardiogenic shock program.
Procedural Competencies
Candidates Should Bring a Broad Contemporary Skill Set, Including
Endotracheal intubation & airway management
Central line & ultrasound-guided vascular access
Radial & femoral arterial catheter placement
Therapeutic bronchoscopy
Thoracentesis, paracentesis & chest tube placement
Comprehensive ICU point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS)
Ideal Qualifications
Proven GME Leadership: Prior experience as a Program Director or Associate Program Director within an accredited GME fellowship/residency program, OR substantial experience as core faculty with leadership in GME.
Emerging Leaders Welcome: Exceptional candidates with extensive participation in curriculum development, faculty leadership, and academic scholarship will also be considered.
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Worksite address
bakersfield, CA, 93399, US
Who can apply
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