Director Physician Development

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Job Description

Your Job:

In this highly visible, fast-paced, and challenging position, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary team members to provide the very best care for our patients. The Director of Physician Development is responsible for promoting core and specialty services to the physician community, increasing new patient visits to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and developing and maintaining strong relationship between MDMC and the referring physician community. Interpret current physician referral patterns, trends, and financial margins to ensure growth and retention of target markets and service lines. The position will work to ensure the timely and seamless onboarding of all new physician practices. Administrative responsibility of product line marketing to MHS and non-MHS physicians. Serve as liaison to the PR/Marketing department and physicians.

Your Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A., B.S.) required.
• Five or more years of experience in a health care environment working with physicians and their staffs. Must have a good working knowledge of outpatient procedures and tests.
• Must demonstrate high degree of independence in responding to the needs of physicians and office staffs.
• Must demonstrate well-developed communication skills, both oral and written to enable strong interpersonal interaction with physicians and office staffs.

Your Job Responsibilities

• Administrative responsibility of product line marketing to MHS and non-MHS physicians: Manage personnel that will encourage physicians/office staffs to refer patients to MHS services by communicating changes, new equipment and technology and other services offered. Continually plan strategies and quota visits for employees to physicians/offices per month. Create reports to monitor physician utilization trends and communicate that information to directors and Vice Presidents of those service lines.
• Orient and assist newly recruited MHS physicians: Introduce newly recruited physicians to existing MHS physicians to establish a referral base. Tour newly recruited physician on both MDMC and other MHS campuses. Liaison with MHS PR department and physician to market practice.
• Serve as liaison between MHS physicians/office staffs and MHS departments to help assist with operational concerns and opportunities for improvement and growth: Obtain feedback from physician offices on operational issues; identify needs and opportunities for improvement to hospital departments and administration. Assure timely follow-up with communication from the department back to the physician/office.
• To establish and cultivate positive relationships between MDMC physicians/office staffs and MHS departments and administration: Build positive hospital-physician relations through office visits, telephone contacts and prompt attention to physician needs and concerns. Communicate contacts with physicians and staff through meetings with appropriate director or Vice President. Represent and market outpatient services through physician office staff luncheons, physician newsletters and focus groups. Develop and maintain positive relationships with physicians on behalf of the hospitals for the purpose of increasing utilization of outpatient services and building physician loyalty.

Methodist Dallas Medical Center is one of North Texas’ best places to work. And it keeps getting better. The flagship hospital of Methodist Health System, Methodist Dallas is a 595-bed acute care teaching and referral hospital. It is home to the only adult Level I Trauma Center in southern Dallas, the first and only Certified Comprehensive Stroke Center in southern Dallas, and the newly renovated Linda and Mitch Hart Breast Center. Celebrating more than 90 years of service, we strive to have a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcomes the skills and talents of all groups. Our reputation as an award-winning employer shows in the distinctions we’ve earned:

• Magnet®-designated hospital
• 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker’s Hospital Review , 2023
• Top 10 Military Friendly® Employer, Gold Designation, 2023
• Top 10 Military Spouse Friendly® Employer, 2023
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation programs