The Director of Clinical Measurement works closely with ABIM staff and committees to develop, to maintain and to support the clinical performance measures in ABIM PIMs and related products and programs. ABIM PIMs currently encompass over 600 quality measures and supporting materials, including the chart survey, patient survey, physician report, measure catalogues, and educational information and links. The Director of Clinical Measurement will be responsible for clinical guidance and policy to ensure that ABIM’s measures effectively and appropriately advance the goals of our Certification and MOC programs, as well as external outreach to ensure ABIM’s measures are strategically entered into the public domain and harmonized effectively with those of other measurement organizations. The Director of Clinical Measurement will develop criteria, protocols, procedures, and tools to implement ABIM measures strategy with input from the ABIM Board and staff. The Director of Clinical Measurement will work closely with ABIM’s clinical content and psychometric staff, and physician expert panels to ensure ABIM’s measures strategy is implemented in a uniform manner. The Director of Clinical Measurement reports to the Director, Medical Informatics. http://www.abim.org/

1. AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
TITLE: DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT LEVEL: E9
DEPARTMENT: PIM DEVELOPMENT (25) REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR, MEDICAL INFORMATICS
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director of Clinical Measurement works closely with ABIM staff and committees to develop, to maintain and
to support the clinical performance measures in ABIM PIMs and related products and programs. ABIM PIMs
currently encompass over 600 quality measures and supporting materials, including the chart survey, patient
survey, physician report, measure catalogues, and educational information and links. The Director of Clinical
Measurement will be responsible for clinical guidance and policy to ensure that ABIM’s measures effectively and
appropriately advance the goals of our Certification and MOC programs, as well as external outreach to ensure
ABIM’s measures are strategically entered into the public domain and harmonized effectively with those of other
measurement organizations. The Director of Clinical Measurement will develop criteria, protocols, procedures,
and tools to implement ABIM measures strategy with input from the ABIM Board and staff. The Director of Clinical
Measurement will work closely with ABIM’s clinical content and psychometric staff, and physician expert panels to
ensure ABIM’s measures strategy is implemented in a uniform manner. The Director of Clinical Measurement
reports to the Director, Medical Informatics.
ABIM MISSION:
The American Board of Internal Medicine is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the quality
of health care through certifying physicians who demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for
excellent patient care.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified
individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual
preference, or non-disqualifying physical or mental handicap or disability in each aspect of the human resources
function.
AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT:
Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to perform the essential job functions
either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall determine reasonable accommodation on
a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.
ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES:
• Demonstrates support of and commitment to the mission and values of the organization.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with co-workers and other organizational stakeholders
• Contributes to creating a learning environment that values, empowers, enriches and supports employees
• Contributes to the culture by supporting and contributing to process and quality improvement
• Demonstrates a commitment to and complies with the organization’s policies and procedures
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Ensure that ABIM’s clinical performance measures and measure groups are clinically relevant for ABIM
diplomates, clinically effective, psychometrically sound and meet ABIM standards for evidence to meet the
goals of our MOC and Certification programs.
o Work with ABIM Board and staff leadership to refine and advance ABIM’s measures strategy.
o Develop and maintain a framework, criteria, and instructions for identifying measures and measure
groups that reflect ABIM’s standards, goals and mission (e.g. criteria and method for identifying core and
supportive measure sets of performance).
o Participate on ABIM measure development and maintenance committees to ensure the measures
strategy is implemented.
o Provide leadership to Physician Lead group and ABIM staff to ensure the measures strategy is
implemented uniformly.
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2. AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
TITLE: DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT LEVEL: E9
DEPARTMENT: PIM DEVELOPMENT (25) REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR, MEDICAL INFORMATICS
o Work with ABIM staff and physician lead group to develop and implement a roadmap (workplan) for ABIM
measure maintenance and development activities.
o Lead efforts to learn from our experiences and continually improve the processes and criteria used for the
selection and definition of measures and measure groups.
o Support ABIM staff with clinical expertise and experience for measures projects, including ongoing
responsibility for the clinical content of at least 2 PIMs.
o Oversee or lead the systematic review of literature in support of the evidence basis for our measures.
• Represent ABIM and work with other organizations in the clinical measurement environment to advance
ABIM’s measurement programs and strategy.
o Represent ABIM and advance ABIM’s measurement strategy at performance measurement organizations
such as PCPI, Joint Commission, CMS, NQF, and NCQA to ensure clinically relevant and robust measure
groups are included in the national measure enterprise in a manner that will enable ABIM to carry out its
assessment programs.
o Work with others from ABIM to respond appropriately to Calls for Measures and Calls for Nominations
from the clinical performance measurement organizations.
o Draft ABIM comments and recommend voting positions as needed for relevant measures developed by
other organizations.
o Establish ABIM as experts in clinical performance measurement to gain greater visibility and participation
in the national measure enterprise.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
• Work with others as needed to help determine analysis and interpret reports on aggregate performance
based on data derived from PIMs.
• Serve as needed on ABIM committees.
• Participate in staff review of third party programs and products that have applied for recognition under ABIM’s
Approved Quality Improvement program.
• Support ABIM staff in responding to diplomate questions regarding the clinical content of the PIMs.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES / EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Board Certified Physician in Internal Medicine and enrolled in MOC.
• Strong knowledge of evidenced based medicine including clinical guidelines and clinical performance
measures.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of staff
and leadership.
• Experience leading a quality improvement project.
• Experience in leading physician based committees.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and meet and adapt to rapidly changing deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly as a member of team.
• Excellent writing skills desirable.
• Commitment to ABIM’s mission and values.
• Active medical license and in a clinical practice (or recently left) in internal medicine.
Signature ______________________________________________
If you are interested in applying for this position, please contact Chris Brod in the Human Resources department,
forward your information to resumehr@abim.org, or confidentially fax your resume to 215 446 3516.
Print Name _____________________________________________ Date Signed __________________
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