Faculty Member- Family Medicine Residency

Job: Core Faculty Member

Reports to: Program Director, Family Medicine Residency

FTE: 1.0

Basic Purpose of Position:

1. To work collaborative with program director, core faculty, residents, and health system to maintain a high level of Family Medicine training and primary care in the clinical settings.
2. To provide teaching and precepting to the family medicine residents and clerkship students in the Capital Health Family Medicine Residency.
3. To provide comprehensive patient care at the Capital Health Primary Care at Brunswick Avenue.

Principle Responsibilities:

1. Administrative Duties
   1. Assist in the development and implementation of a comprehensive Family Medicine curriculum to, at a minimum, meet ACGME requirements for family medicine residency education
      1. This will include, but not limited to, noon conferences, morning report, didactic sessions, simulations, and recorded lectures
      2. The curriculum must be structured and compliment the residents’ total educational experience

• The curriculum must include the diagnosis, management, and coordination common mental illnesses in the primary care setting

1. Assist in the recruitment and selection of applicants to the residency program.
2. Regularly participate in residency committees, including, but not limited to, PEC and CCC
3. Assists with short and long-term planning for the Family Medicine Residency and Primary Care at Brunswick Avenue
4. Serves on assigned committees within the residency, medical group, and hospital
5. Maintains board certification through regular CME activities and board exams

2. Evaluation
   1. Regularly participate in formal and informal feedback and evaluation with the residents
   2. Participate in the family medicine boot camp, OSCEs, and simulations
   3. Actively attend and contribute in residency evaluation, CCC, and PEC meeting
3. Education
   1. Lecture monthly in regularly scheduled didactics
   2. Assist in resident-run didactics, like journal club, M&M, and other lectures
   3. Work collaboratively to create an innovative educational resident experience
   4. Advise as faculty mentor to residents as they work on their required scholarly projects.
   5. Serve as faculty advisor to 1-2 residents when at full complement of residents
   6. Participate and teach in Faculty Development Sessions as designated within given areas of expertise and knowledge.
   7. Regularly precept residents in outpatient/inpatient setting, on rotation, via phone, and as needed
   8. Education residents in any area of expertise. For example, women’s health, maternity care, geriatrics, sports medicine, or hospital medicine.
4. Patient Care
   1. Provide direct patient care without residents in the Capital Health Primary Care at Brunswick Avenue in accordance with current standards of care
5. Other
   1. Attend assigned faculty and departmental conferences and meetings
   2. Demonstrate active scholarly work annually
   3. Perform other related job duties as assigned by the Program Director of the Capital Health Family Medicine Residency

Education and Experience: Physician with New Jersey licensure, ABFM or ABOFM board certified. Previous faculty experience desirable. Must have genuine desire to teach, to work collaboratively, and to provide leadership.

Capital Health is the Central New Jersey/Lower Bucks County region’s leader in providing progressive, quality patient care with significant investments in physicians, nurses and staff, as well as advanced technology. Comprised of two hospitals (Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton and Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell), a Hamilton outpatient facility, and various primary and specialty care practices across the region, Capital Health is a dynamic healthcare resource accredited by The DNV.

A five-time Magnet-designated health system for nursing excellence, Capital Health serves as a Level II regional trauma center, regional perinatal center (including a Level III NICU), and emergency mental health screening center. Capital Health also offers the region’s first and most experienced Pediatric Emergency Department and most recently, New Jersey’s first Autism-Friendly Pediatric Emergency Department. Capital Health also provides innovative programs such as our Capital Institute for Neurosciences; nationally accredited Center for Comprehensive Breast Care; Center for Digestive Health; Marjorie G. Ernest Joint Replacement Center of Excellence; award-winning Center for Oncology; and the Heart & Vascular Institute, which includes the region’s first accredited Chest Pain Center.  For more information, visit capitalhealth.org.