Emergency Medicine & Medical Toxicology Faculty Physician

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Tennessee; On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine invites applications for full-time faculty positions focused in Medical Toxicology. We welcome candidates at all academic ranks who are passionate about patient-centered care and advances in toxicology through education, clinical service, and research.

We seek faculty dedicated to excellence, integrity, humility, diversity, and patient-centered care, with a commitment to teaching, clinical operations, and scholarly activity

Qualifications

• Board-eligible or board-certified in Emergency Medicine.
• Fellowship training in Medical Toxicology (or equivalent).
• Interest or experience in academic medicine, including education, research, or clinical operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in emergency departments including Level I trauma center.
• Serve on Toxicology Consult Service managing inpatient consults.
• Participate in outpatient Toxicology Clinics and regional referrals.
• Provide backup consultation to the Tennessee Poison Center.
• Engage in teaching and mentorship of residents, fellows, and students.
• Contribute to academic research and division initiatives in toxicology.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Clinical toxicology knowledge

Academic medicine interest

Education

Board eligible or board-certified in Emergency Medicine

Fellowship in Medical Toxicology (or equivalent)

Job description

Position Description

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) invites applications for full-time faculty positions in Emergency Medicine with a focus in Medical Toxicology. We welcome candidates at all academic ranks who are passionate about delivering exceptional patient-centered care and advancing the field of toxicology through clinical service, education, and research.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care in VUMC’s emergency departments, including the adult Level I trauma center, the Nashville VA, and affiliated hospitals.
• Serve on the Toxicology Consult Service, which manages approximately 200 inpatient consults annually across Vanderbilt University Hospital and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital.
• Participate in the outpatient Toxicology Clinics, offering follow-up care and regional referrals.
• Provide backup consultation to the Tennessee Poison Center, which handles over 52,000 calls annually across all 95 counties in Tennessee.
• Engage in teaching and mentorship of residents, fellows, and medical students.
• Contribute to academic research and division-specific initiatives in toxicology, education, or clinical innovation.

We are seeking to identify faculty who will help us realize our vision of becoming a premier patient centered academic medical center, support our mission to discover and teach how to treat each patient with dignity and respect - anyone, anything, anytime - and actively contribute to developing and training the next generation of academic leaders. To accomplish this mission, we are seeking faculty who are ideal team players and embody the values of excellence, integrity, humility, diversity, and patient-centeredness.

A focus on creation of an inclusive, collaborative environment is vital to the success of serving our diverse patient population. The diversity of our physician workforce has been identified and embraced as a core value, with a goal of reflecting the diversity of the patient population we serve. Women and those who identify as underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply. Candidates should be exceptional clinicians and board eligible, or board certified in Emergency Medicine. Ideally, the candidate will have a track record of academic excellence in education, research, and/or clinical operations.

The Department of Emergency Medicine

VUMC’s Department of Emergency Medicine is a national leader in clinical care, education and research. The Department has over 100 faculty, and we have 8 divisions: operations, strategy and innovation, clinical informatics, emergency medical services, global emergency medicine, emergency medicine research, simulation and ultrasound.

Located in Nashville, TN, VUMC is the only adult and pediatric Level I trauma center in Middle Tennessee. VUMC’s combined emergency departments treat over 200,000 patients annually. Department of Emergency Medicine physicians currently provide emergency services at Vanderbilt University Hospital, Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital, Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital, Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital, and the Emergency Department of the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center, with plans to expand to Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital and the Vanderbilt Sango Freestanding ED in 2027.

Emergency Medicine’s Research Division is one of the most productive and impactful emergency care research groups in the world, with numerous grants and contracts from federal agencies and major industry partners. The Research Division has generated practicing changing data in many fields, including acute heart failure management, resuscitation strategies, airway management, geriatric emergency care, COVID-19 therapies, and ED operations. Faculty and researchers in the department produce more than 100 peer-reviewed publications annually, are currently #1 in NIH funding nationally, and are well regarded by their peers nationally and globally.

Education is a top priority for the department. There are currently 39 residents in this highly regarded and sought-after program. Much of the residency program’s stellar reputation rests on the efforts of faculty members and upper-level residents who view excellent teaching as a core component of their responsibilities. The third/fourth-year medical student rotation is the highest rated required clinical rotation in the medical school. The Department also has an ACGME accredited fellowship in EMS, a EUFAC accredited fellowship in Ultrasound, and GME approved fellowships in Global Emergency Medicine and Simulation. Through collaborative relationships with other Departments and Divisions at VUMC, we also train fellows in Quality, Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Informatics, Sports Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Pediatric EM.

VUMC - An Overview

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has built a strong reputation as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care throughout the nation over the course of its 147-year history and operates as one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. VUMC is the largest comprehensive research, teaching, and patient care health system in the State of Tennessee. VUMC consists of a growing array of inpatient hospitals and ambulatory facilities. At its core, the Medical Center is driven by discovery and the immediate translation of new knowledge into innovation in patient care and physician and nurse education. It is a unified medical center with a unified strategy. Investments in clinical care, research, quality and patient safety, and customer service all drive toward the shared goal of delivering excellent, state of the art healthcare.

Known for its highly acclaimed teaching hospitals and its groundbreaking efforts in biomedical informatics, VUMC clinicians provide more than 2.4 million ambulatory visits, perform more than 70,000 surgical procedures, and see 120,000 patients in its Emergency Departments each year. The Medical Center is the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with more than 28,000 employees, approximately 3,000 of whom are clinical faculty, including advanced practice nurses. Vanderbilt’s biomedical scientists conduct more than $500 million of federally and corporately sponsored research each year, and the medical school ranks #8 in the U.S. in National Institutes of Health funding.

Based on the Medical Center’s historical performance and VUMC innovative leadership, VUMC is the recipient of top accolades by the National Academies, the Magnet Recognition Program, and U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals. In 2022, U.S. News & World Report regionally ranked VUMC as No. 19 on the Best Hospitals “Honor Roll” and the Best Hospital in Tennessee. VUMC is nationally ranked in 9 adult and 10 pediatric specialties and rated high performing in 4 adult specialties and 16 procedures and conditions by U.S. News . Becker’s Hospital Review named VUMC among the “100 Great Hospitals in America,” for six straight years since 2015.

Clinical Care

The highly acclaimed Vanderbilt University Hospital and The Vanderbilt Clinic are teaching and patient-care facilities with over 1,100 inpatient beds and addressing more than 3 million ambulatory visits each year, are supported by the most up-to-date systems and technology.

Other key components include the following:

• Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
• Bill Wilkerson Center for Hearing and Speech
• The Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt
• Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
• Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital

In 2008, the Medical Center moved 23 clinics into the renovated 100 Oaks Mall in the Berry Hill section of Nashville, filling 440,000 square feet of space nine miles from the main campus, and beginning a major diversification of its geographic footprint that now includes more than 160 clinical care locations located throughout Middle Tennessee. VUMC’s four major hospitals are located on the historic Vanderbilt University campus, greatly increasing opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and scientific discovery.

Currently, VUMC has six operational divisions including five Clinical Enterprise Divisions: Vanderbilt University Hospital, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, Vanderbilt Health Services, the Clinical Professional Practice and one Academic Enterprise Division.

The clinical professional practice for VUMC’s faculty physicians is organized for medical staff leadership and credentialing as the Vanderbilt Medical Group (VMG). VUMC’s clinical professional practice and academic department administration is structured through clinical departments led by clinical department chairs and supported by their associated Business Officers who bear primary responsibility for business management of these departments.

VUMC also leads a statewide clinical network, the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network (VHAN), which is among the largest provider-managed affiliated networks in the US. Established in 2012, VHAN has developed a large network of participating providers, including 13 health systems (70 hospitals in the aggregate) and more than 6,400 providers across Tennessee. The over 300,000 plus lives under management are currently a combination of the employees of the hospital members and other lives contributed by employers. The VHAN network comprises a large portion of the referral network for VUMC in Tennessee and is a tremendous opportunity for statewide brand development and philanthropic activity.

Research at VUMC

VUMC also has an array of distinguished research activities that place it among the nation’s top institutions receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health. Its research infrastructure is built upon a philosophy of collaboration and entrepreneurialism that has facilitated the success of interdisciplinary programs, including a major NIH award to support the Precision Medicine Initiative Data and Research Center, and the recent renewal of a large Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Clinical research exemplifies the bench-to-bedside research programs that draw upon basic discovery science at the University and are facilitated by VUMC’s infrastructure. VUMC houses approximately 80% of the research attributed to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, now ranked #11 in the U.S. in total NIH grant awards.

• Board-eligible or board-certified in Emergency Medicine.
• Fellowship training in Medical Toxicology (or equivalent experience).
• Interest or experience in academic medicine, including clinical operations, education, or research.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.