Education, Certifications, and Licenses Required

• Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Alaska.
• DEA Registration.
• Ongoing board certification in primary care or chosen specialty.
• Ongoing current certification for clinical practice (e.g., BLS, PALS, ACLS as required by practice location).

Experience Required

• At least 5 years’ post-residency direct patient care clinical experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience as a medical director or in a progressive medical leadership role.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of current best practice clinical techniques as they apply to patient assessment, diagnosis, and/or treatment of primary care and specialty patients.
• Up-to-date knowledge of primary care and specialty medications.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience and application of current theories, literature, recent developments, and best practices in the field of primary care and specialty care to maintain excellent standards of care throughout the primary care and specialty health division.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical staff functions including areas such as bylaws, clinical services policies and/procedures, and ethical standards.
• Ability to remain flexible and open-minded to change and new ways providing effective and efficient health care services.
• Ability to communicate in an open, transparent, inspiring, helpful, supportive, cooperative, and collaborative manner.
• Ability to effectively challenge the status quo in a manner that encourages and motivates others to make change and improve the delivery of care.
• Ability to effectively balance multiple and sometimes competing perspectives and objectives.
• Maintain the utmost patience and organizational confidentiality.
• Ability to demonstrate empathic understanding and respect towards staff, patients, and community to create a positive working relationship.
• Ability to demonstrate scientific, professional, and personal integrity to apply the highest ethical principles and guidelines to interactions with patients and staff.
• Open and emotionally even handed to demonstrate full communicative accessibility for staff in the process of sharing ideas and demonstrating professional bearing when under pressure and during conflict.
• Solve problems timely and execute initiatives.
• Comfortable with occasional business travel to SEARHC communities or other leadership forums.