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Jefferson 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.

Qualifications:

• Previous teaching experience in an ACGME-accredited program preferred
• Clinically active in Family Medicine
• Inpatient Medicine teaching experience or interest in developing inpatient curriculum preferred
• Alternatively Geriatrics boarded or interest in teaching Geriatrics curriculum
• 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

Responsibilities:

• 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

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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