Career Center

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Serves a pivotal role in supporting the Residency Program Director in the provision of strategic leadership for the Family Medicine Residency Program, Family Medicine Center,  and its Faculty/Staff in order to insure the highest level of Family Medicine training and to maintain quality driven, evidence based care for patients and families on the Family Medicine Inpatient Service and within The Family Medicine Center. Must embrace lifelong learning and have a genuine desire to teach and mentor developing physicians.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Clinical

• Provides direct care for patients in the Family Medicine Center according to current standards of care
• Participates actively as a supervising physician on the Family Medicine inpatient and consult service
• Precepts residents and medical students in the Family Medicine Center as they care for continuity patients
• Supports the provision of care provided by residents, medical students, and advanced nurse practitioners within the Family Medicine Center in a collaborative working relationship

Educational

• Provides formal and informal teaching within the medical education programs at St. Mary Medical Center and Nazareth Hospital
• Participates in development of didactic, simulation, scholarly, and bedside educational curricula
• Supports all educational activities and remediation plans that pertain to the in-training examination, board examinations, and residency Clinical Competency Committee evaluations
• Oversees and facilitates the core didactic curriculum for residents
• Provides formal didactic teaching of residents and students

 Resident Competency Assessments

• Participates in regularly scheduled competency assessments of residents and students with program director and core faculty
• Provides guided mentorship to residents and assist in creation of individualized learning plans
• Chairs the Clinical Competency Committee in the deliberations regarding resident promotion and remediation
• Participates in creation of formalized coaching, enhanced mentorship, and remediation plans for residents as needed

Administrative

• Supports the Family Medicine coordinator and Program Director to ensure all residents are compliant with administrative tasks such as logging of procedures and duty hours
• Assists Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, Program Director, and Academic Affairs with implementing successful strategies for maintaining regional and national prominence in Family Medicine
• Assists Academic Affairs and the Graduate Medical Education Office with institutional efforts to promote excellence in medical education
• Supports Program Director in ensuring continued compliance with accreditation standards including the preparation of annual reports
• Assists in creation and maintenance of written curriculum, goals and objectives for the residency program
• Supports and facilitates interprofessional education across all Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education programming within Trinity Mid-Atlantic
• Attends to all administrative tasks with attention to detail and in a timely fashion
• Participates in the residency Program Evaluation Committee

Recruitment

• Participates in national, regional, local, and branch campus recruitment events
• Assists in the evaluation, recruitment, and orientation of resident and faculty applicants to the Family Medicine Residency

Faculty Support/Development

• Provides formal and informal mentorship to junior faculty
• Assists in creation and delivery of a faculty development curriculum
• Supports faculty with scholarly endeavors
• Provides ongoing support and education to affiliated and core faculty

Research

• Supports an environment of inquiry and scholarship through mentorship of resident research and grand rounds initiatives, promotion of residency poster presentations at local, regional, and national meetings, and active quality improvement research component within the hospitals and/or Family Medicine Center

SCOPE, PURPOSE, AND FREQUENCY OF CONTACTS:

• Meets regularly with departmental, operational, and residency leaders to insure open communication.
• Meets regularly with residents in an advisory capacity
• Consults frequently with residency leadership in other departments to enhance and optimize education of residents across GME
• Serves as residency representative on hospital committees and with administrative leadership at the request of Program Director

DIRECTION/SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

• Program Director, Family Medicine Residency
• Designated Institutional Official

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• MD/DO
• Current ABFM Board Certification
• Faculty Appointment at associated medical school
• Demonstrated excellence in patient care.
• Demonstrated excellence in medical, educational and leadership abilities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to foster and maintain collaborative relationships
• Ability to successfully manage relationships, including conflict resolution.
• Ability to perform in a leadership capacity.
• Ability to address issues creatively to affect change.
• Ability to demonstrate a high degree of credibility, respectability and integrity.
• Ability to exercise superior judgement, tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to be impartial when making decisions which may have a personal impact.
• Ability to manage the educational process.
• Ability to function as a team player.
• Ability to develop and maintain a rigorous competency-based residency program
• Skilled in oral and written communications.

 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Maintain current knowledge and expertise through continuing education and self-study.

 PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• None

 WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Generally pleasant office environment.
• No unusual hazards.