GME/Family Medicine Psychologist | Warren, MI

Family Medicine

• Curriculum/Training
  • Coordinate and assist with implementation of the Behavioral Medicine curriculum within the residency training program.
    • Developing goals, objectives, and teaching of behavioral medicine topics as they relate to Family Medicine longitudinally and during behavioral medicine rotation. 
    • Obtains feedback from leadership and refines training accordingly
  • Teaching communication skills and behavioral health topics via simulation
  • Provide supervision and evaluation of residents in behavioral medicine domains of patient care.
  • Organize and oversee the Behavioral/Community Health rotation
    • Work with clinical sites to ensure quality experience
    • Create new relationships with various sites/organizations
    • Assist residents in setting up their rotation
  • Coordinate all administrative components of training activities and events for behavioral medicine.
    • Schedules course sessions and learning activities, maintains training event calendars and databases, and participation in didactics and direct observation.
  • Assist faculty in teaching Professionalism curriculum both in Family Medicine and GME
  • Assists with determining clinical educational needs by participating in appropriate leadership/committee meetings and by direct communication with PD/APD/DIO.
• Research/Scholarly Activity
  • Assist in providing guidance and oversight/assistance of resident scholarly inquiry
    • Coordinate and assist with clinic research projects led by professional organizations as needed(e.g., AAFP)
    • Assist in maintaining and encouraging an environment of scholarly inquiry
  • Evaluation:
    • Perform evaluations of residents ability to communicate and work with patients through direct observation/video taped encounters
    • Serve on CCC and PEC for Family Medicine residency
    • Assist PD and APD in working with residents who require performance improvement plans
  • Recruitment
    • Member of FM Recruitment Committee
    • Participate in the residency interview process by co-leading group interview sessions
    • Provide consultation for effectively gathering quantitative and qualitative data from FM faculty and residents involved in interviews for use in the rank process
    • Participate in faculty debriefing
  • Patient care/Community Outreach
    • Assist in group medical appts at office for behavioral health support
    • Serve on patient advisory panel and work with clinic patients to ensure quality of care and needs of patients are being met
    • Provide Clinical psychology service for family medicine clinic patients (4-6 hs/wk)
    • Work to increase participation in and organization of community events
  • Committee Involvement
    • Wellness
      • Co-Chair of FM Wellness Committee
        • Assist in organization and implementation of wellness aspects/events
      • Lead FM PGY1 class wellness meetings
      • Lead Wellness moment/reflection during faculty and resident meetings

Medical Education:

• Wellness
  • Chair or Co-Chair the Wellness Committee for Medical Education and work with committee to create events and ways to support resident and physician wellness
    • Coordinate, develop, plan, and deliver resident events (topics include: knowing self and others; leadership, wellness)
    • Assist with hospital wellness initiatives
  • Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
    • Chair or Co-Chair the DEI Committee for Medical Education and work with the committee to teach and promote these aspects of medicine.
      • Develop and co-deliver cultural competency curriculum/implicit bias training to residents
      • Work with programs to improve the clinical learning environment by advocating and providing training in the ABIDE framework.
    • Professionalism
      • Assist in implementation/teaching professionalism in medicine curriculum for GME

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Demonstrates effective written and oral communication skills consistent with mission and values.
• Demonstrates interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with residents, medical students, medical staff, senior management and other clinical staff in a constructive, professional and productive manner.
• Demonstrates strong knowledge base and excellent training in the Behavioral Science curriculum within the Residency Training Program.
• Ability to design, implement, deliver, manage, evaluate and revise curriculum.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of current and emerging clinical, educational and financial trends and practices in Behavioral Science in order to provide the education of residents, medical students and other allied health care providers.
• Excellent critical thinking skills, assessment and diagnostic skills.
• Demonstrates effective team building skills including empowerment, open communication and flexibility.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize multiple demands.
• Demonstrates professional standards of ethical behavior.

Minimum Qualifications Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• Required: Licensed Psychologist
• Full licensure by the Michigan Board of Psychology required.

Education:

• Doctorate (academic).
• PhD or PsyD in Psychology required.

Henry Ford Warren Hospital is a 376-bed facility that provides essential emergency and trauma care, operating as a Level III Adult Trauma Center to deliver advanced treatment for critical injuries and illnesses. Our hospital specializes in key areas including cardiology, oncology, stroke care, orthopedics, and offering expert personalized care to our patients.