Physician - Family Medicine Core Faculty - Jefferson Abington

Job Details

Abington Family Medicine is seeking a Core Faculty member for a community-based 8-8-8 Family Residency Program in Abington, PA, just outside of Philadelphia.

Job Description

Candidates must be passionate about serving a diverse patient population while being teachers, advisors and mentors to residents and medical students. The successful candidate will support program leadership in developing, implementing and assessing curricula and taking an active role in building the residency practice.

Jefferson Abington Hospital is a 667-bed regional referral center and teaching hospital with a full range of acute care services and is a leader in the Philadelphia area in trauma, neuroscience, complex surgery, cancer and cardiac care. The hospital has a rich history of commitment to resident and student medical education. Graduates of our Family Medicine Residency Program have a 99% first-time pass rate on the ABFM Boards and practice in a variety of settings throughout the country. Faculty are eligible for non-tenure track academic appointment at Thomas Jefferson University.

Responsibilities:

• Traditional Family Medicine faculty practice (inpatient/outpatient).
• Provide clinical supervision and mentoring of residents and medical students in the outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Advise and mentor residents on QI/PI projects.
• Teach didactics, contribute to curriculum development, simulation training, practice management and other innovative topics in Family Medicine education.
• Provide regular resident and student evaluation and feedback.
• Regularly participate in organized clinical discussions, rounds, journal clubs, conferences, and residency committees.
• Pursue faculty development designated to enhance skills.
• Serve as an advisor and role model of professionalism, fostering one's own and resident/student well-being, educational goal setting, career planning, scholarship, and safe, high quality patient care based on practice- based learning and improvement efforts.
• Pursue scholarly activities including presenting at scientific society meetings, participation in national cities and or educational organizations, quality initiatives, publications, grants, etcetera.
• Incorporate a complementary culture of learning into the current patient- and community-centered health culture, including principles of quality and equity, humanism, research, and population health.

Qualifications:

• Previous teaching experience in an ACGME-accredited program preferred.
• Experience with QI/PI methodology preferred.
• Experience in treating Hepatitis C and HIV in the ambulatory setting preferred.
• Clinically active in Family Medicine.
• American Board-Certified/Board Eligible in Family medicine from ABFM or AOBFM.
• Currently hold or possess the ability to obtain medical licensure to practice medicine in Pennsylvania.
• Currently hold or possess ability to obtain a DEA with full prescriptive authority.
• Commitment to providing team-based, high-quality, evidence-based patient care.
• Commitment to training the physicians of tomorrow, with interest in curriculum development and medical pedagogy.
• Demonstrated administrative, scholarly and research activity.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Primary Location Address

500 Old York Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.