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Instructor of Clinical Fellow, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Cincinnati, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Nov 2023

About the role

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Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to nearly 48,000 students, about 11,000 faculty and staff and 332,000 alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, eight straight years of record enrollment, worldwide leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 athletic conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget tops $1.65 billion and its endowment totals $1.8 billion.

Job Overview

As one of the oldest medical schools in the country, the UC College of Medicine has a reputation for training best-in-class health care professionals and developing cutting-edge procedures and research that improves the health and clinical care of patients. The Department of Family & Community Medicine has played a leading role in fellow, resident, and medical student education since 1974 and continues to focus on improving the health of members of our Cincinnati community and beyond, with a special focus on medically underserved patients. With faculty expertise in areas such as primary care research, palliative care, geriatrics, global health and integrative medicine, the department is advancing the college's commitment to cultivating learning environments, fostering research and scholarship, and providing innovative patient care.

The Department of Family & Community Medicine is seeking a Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Med-Peds physician to join us as the inaugural fellow beginning in July 2024. The Sawyer Pardo Fellowship for LGBTQ+ Health aims to train physicians to be leaders in health care for LGBTQ+ and gender expansive individuals through clinical excellence, scholarship, and advocacy for and with LGTBQ+ communities. The Sawyer Pardo LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program aims to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive clinical and educational environment that values all identities, including sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, age, and disability.

Please view the "application requirements" section for additional documentation required for completion of your application.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Essential Functions

Responsibilities in the areas of clinical, academic, and leadership will include:

Develop a LGBTQ+ focused patient panel at the UC West Chester Family Medicine Residency Program, a faculty and resident ambulatory family medicine office.
Provide direct, independent clinical care with ongoing mentorship as needed from the Program Directors.
Provide broad spectrum primary care aligned with their residency training.
The fellow will provide gender affirming hormone therapy to transgender and gender expansive adults.
Participate in quality improvement initiatives within clinical practice.
Complete outpatient telephone home calls in the faculty pool once per month.
Option to provide inpatient, adult care at West Chester Hospital
Additional clinical experiences with fellowship faculty will occur (Equitas Health, UC Health Hartwell, UC Health specialty clinics (eg: infectious disease, plastic surgery, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, endocrinology, gender spectrum voice, etc.) .
Participate in advocacy opportunities aligned with interest.
Engage in community-based participatory research on LGBTQ+ health outcomes.
Participate in education initiatives in health equity and inclusion in medical undergraduate and graduate education, including opportunities to teach resident physicians, medical students, and interdisciplinary learners.