Academic/Faculty/Research Physician - Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health

Einstein Montgomery Family Medicine Residency Program is seeking Core Faculty members for a community-based 6-6-6 Family Medicine residency in Norristown, PA located in Montgomery County right outside of Philadelphia. Candidates must be passionate and enthusiastic for practicing in an underserved area and teaching family medicine while being advisors and mentors to residents and medical students. The successful candidate will support the program leadership in developing, implementing, and assessing curricula and taking an active role in building the residency practice.

The Core Faculty member will have a significant role in the education and supervision of the residents, including teaching, evaluating, and providing formative feedback. In addition, the Core Faculty member will develop and care for a patient panel within the residency practice. Faculty are eligible for academic appointment at Thomas Jefferson University s School of Medicine.

Responsibilities:

• Initial 0.7 FTE clinical, 0.3 education
• Deliver high-quality care to the patients of our Ambulatory training site.
• Provide clinical supervision and mentoring of residents and medical students in the outpatient setting with outpatient call coverage responsibilities
• Teach didactics, contribute to curriculum development, simulation training, practice management and other innovative topics in Family Medicine education
• Provide regular resident and student evaluation/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 committees and/or educational organizations, quality initiatives, publications, grants, etc.
• 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
• Clinically active in Family Medicine
• OB/Inpatient Medicine teaching experience welcome
• 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