Associate Director (Physician Leader), Clinical Education

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The Associate director (Physician leader), Clinical Education is a senior clinical leader within Humana's Primary Care Organization (PCO). This role combines market-based clinical teaching, active clinical practice, and provider education program leadership to elevate clinical excellence across the PCO.
You will be a visible ambassador for value‑based, senior-focused primary care oriented to provider education. You will report to the AVP, Clinical Education.

Primary Responsibilities

1. Market-Based Teaching (50%)

Deliver high-impact clinical education across PCO markets. Key responsibilities include:

• Train providers on population health, value-based care, senior care, primary care workflows, and PCO care model standards.
• Lead provider onboarding, continuing education, and targeted performance-improvement training.
• Deliver education in-person and virtually.
• Collaborate with market leadership to identify performance gaps and deploy targeted teaching interventions.
• Support markets with quality, utilization, and workflow improvement through data review and clinician coaching.
• Serve as a visible clinical educator across geographies.
• Teach at least one Grand Rounds session annually.

2. Clinical Practice (10%)

Maintain active clinical practice in the local market (up to 10%) to:

• Stay connected to care delivery.
• Maintain clinical credibility and licensure.
• Inform training approaches with real-world practice insights.

3. Medical Education Programs & Clinical Education Leadership (40%)

• Lead the PCO Grand Rounds program as the clinical owner.
• Ensure educational content meets evidence-based standards and organizational priorities.
• Develop and teach clinical topics through the Clinician Development Committee and additional forums.
• Lead development of evidence-based guidelines, pathways, and clinical practice standards.
• Support resident, student, and academic partnership programs; represent PCO in academic medical settings.

People Leadership

• Lead clinical and non-clinical educators.
• Provide development and performance support for APP educators.
• Promote a national teaching culture built on clinical excellence, consistency, and shared best practices.

Operational & Committee Participation

• Participate in committees involving market operations, compliance, quality, and implementation teams.
• Identify provider education needs in partnership with enterprise and market partners.
• Represent Clinical Education in internal meetings, events, and recruiting activities.

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Board‑certified MD/DO in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Geriatric Medicine.
• Active medical license in state of practice, with the ability to obtain additional state licenses.
• Minimum 10 years of clinical practice, with strong experience in value‑based primary care.
• Experience training physicians and APPs; ability to mentor clinical learners.
• Experience in performance improvement, change management, and quality improvement.
• Experience in medical staff leadership.
• Knowledge of Medicare Advantage, coding, documentation, quality, and utilization.
• EMR navigation.
• Ability to travel approximately 30% to markets.

Preferred Qualifications

• APP mentorship experience.
• Experience in academic medicine, residency programs, or medical education environments.
• Experience supporting or teaching evidence‑based practice or CME‑level education.
• Athena EMR experience.

Key Competencies

• Clinical Leadership – Serves as a respected and credible educator.
• Communication – Across audiences.
• Problem Solving – Applies structured reasoning to improve clinical and operational outcomes.
• Accountability – Consistently meets expectations in a matrixed environment.
• Technology Fluency – Leverages technology to support scalable clinical education.
• Aligns clinical education programs with organizational goals.

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.$223,800 - $313,100 per yearThis job is