Clinical Educator, Family Medicine Obstetrics (FMOB)

Mission Driven, Community Focused About | Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (cdrewu.edu)

Charles R. Drew University is located in the Watts-Willowbrook area of south Los Angeles and was founded in 1966 in the wake of the Watts uprising. CDU was founded to address inadequate medical care in the region and to provide equitable medical education opportunities for under-represented students.

CDU is strongly invested in the local and regional community. The university leads multiple partnerships and programs to provide equitable healthcare resources in a variety of south Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Summary:

We are seeking a full-time Family Medicine clinician-educator with training and expertise in women’s health and obstetrics in an urban underserved clinical setting. Family Medicine Clinician Educators are physicians who engage in clinical care, scholarship and teaching to advance the mission of Charles R. Drew University. The primary work is as a clinical faculty member who teaches and advances scholarship with medical students, residents and other health profession trainees in their respective clinical setting.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide full spectrum reproductive and perinatal as well as mother-infant dyad care to patients we serve
• Precept/supervise residents rotating in the reproductive and perinatal/OB clinic
• Work with the lead FMOB faculty in overseeing and updating the Women’s health and Perinatal rotation and curriculum
• Proficiency in performing and supervise common outpatient gynecologic procedures (pap smears, contraception procedures, endometrial biopsy, colposcopy)
• Participate in Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) training for new first-year resident
• Provides evidenced-based education for residents and medical students, to include but not limited to, clinical teaching, interactive didactics and case presentations.
• Provides supervision and oversight of residents and medical students during family medicine clerkship and/or residency rotations, as a Family Medicine clinical faculty member.
• Contributes to and implements aspects of the rotation curriculum.
• Provides timely feedback to trainees and completes evaluations on time.
• Attends and delivers didactic sessions for residents and medical students.
• Participates in scholarly activity and research, including national presentations, lectures, and publications.
• Participates in departmental and/or hospital committees as recommended by the Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program and/or Family Medicine Department Chair.
• Exemplifies Charles R. Drew University standards of excellence. For example: demonstrates friendliness and courtesy and effective communication in a professional environment
• Other duties and unique responsibilities as assigned by the Family Medicine Residency Program Director and Family Medicine Department Chair.

Preferred skills/certification in obstetrics and perinatal care: (not required)

• Fellowship training/advanced certification in obstetrics and/or women’s health
• Proficiency in performing and supervising vaginal deliveries (operative skills including vacuum and performing cesarean deliveries is a plus)
• proficiency in first trimester/limited 3rd trimester ultrasound
• Proficiency in performing and supervising newborn circumcisions and frenotomies
• Experience with breastfeeding counseling/lactation consultation
• Active ALSO instructor certification

 Teaching Responsibilities:

• Provides mentoring, teaching and precepting services to the faculty, residents and students in the Department of Family Medicine educational programs.
• Creates curriculum, assists in evaluation, and serves as rotation liaison for assigned residency program rotations
• Participates in formative and summative evaluation of residents, faculty, staff and program evaluations. For residents, this includes evaluation of the six ACGME clinical competencies and procedural skills.
• Conducts resident through role modeling excellent clinical care and professionalism, guided learning application of procedural skills and effective communication. 
• Perform timely evaluations to residents, medical students, and other health professional trainees.
• Meet with residents to review performance, provide effective feedback on clinical performance, and to discuss their evaluations.
• Oversee orientation of new trainees to the Family Medicine/Primary Care Clinical Site and other health care resources.