Family Medicine Physician Job at DHR Health in Edinburg and Rio Grande Valley, TX

DHR HEALTH - GME CORE FACULTY – FAMILY MEDICINE WITH OBSTETRICS

DHR Health's mission is to improve the well-being of those we serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time. DHR Health was the first Level 1 Trauma Center in the Rio Grande Valley, providing 24/7 emergency care at the highest level with specialty physicians and surgeons available every day of the year. The hospital was founded in 1997 to help over 1.5 million residents resolve limited health care access challenges in a community that lacked public and county hospitals. Today, it is a modern, 530-bed full-service health system that serves over 300,000 patients annually, with more than 6,000 employees, and offers a full continuum of care in over 70 different specialties and subspecialties. DHR Health serves the entire region with their hub in Edinburg, and clinics in Starr County, and a new hospital in Brownsville, as well as a robust clinical research division. Their women’s hospital is certified as providing the highest level of maternal care in South Texas and is home to the only transplant program in the region. DHR Health has revolutionized the healthcare landscape of the Rio Grande Valley and continues to raise the standard of care and transform the healthcare delivery model for the benefit of all local residents. 

POSITION SUMMARY

The GME Core Faculty physician, under the direction and supervision of the Family Medicine Residency Program Director, has a key role in the education and supervision of residents, as they contribute to shaping the next generation of family physicians through clinical teaching, curriculum development, and scholarly activity.

Core faculty members are critical to the success of resident education. They support the program leadership in developing, implementing, and assessing the curriculum, mentoring residents, and assessing residents’ progress toward achievement of competence in and the autonomous practice of Family Medicine. Core faculty members provide clinical teaching and supervision of residents, and also participate in non-clinical activities related to resident education and program administration. Examples of these nonclinical activities include, but are not limited to, interviewing and selecting resident applicants, providing didactic instruction, advising residents, creating simulation exercises, completing the annual ACGME Faculty Survey, and participating on the program’s Clinical Competency Committee, Program Evaluation Committee, and other GME committees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Oversight of Education

1. Supervise, teach and role model high-quality patient-centered care in both inpatient and outpatient settings, including family medicine, prenatal, obstetrics and gynecologic care.
2. Serve as faculty mentor to both family medicine residents and medical students in the Family Medicine Practice Site and on hospital wards.
3. Serve as a member of the Clinical Competency Committee as appointed by the Program Director.
   
4. Develop and implement ACGME competence-based residency curriculum, including didactics and clinical education.
5. Participation in the annual program review as a member of the Program Evaluation Committee as appointed by the Program Director.
6. Participation in the development of action plans by the Program Evaluating Committee.
7. Participate in the recruitment and selection of diverse applicants, including efforts related to the program's committee on diversity.
8. Advise, mentor, and coach residents, co-creating, implementing, and monitoring individualized learning plans as assigned by PD
9. Participate in designing and overseeing remediation plans as designated by the Program Director.
10. Support / oversee residents in the development and implementation of quality improvement /patient safety projects.
11. Support / oversee residents in developing and conducting scholarly work, including the dissemination of such work through presentations, posters / abstracts, and peer-reviewed publications.
12. Participate in and lead educational activities during didatics (Ex: lectures, case studies, workshops, or simulation exercises).
13. Participate in ongoing faculty development sessions and workshops.
14. Participate in the program's efforts related to resident and faculty well-being.

Roles, Responsibilities, and Evaluation

The Core Faculty (CF) member serves under appointment by the Program Director (PD) to carry out those duties as specified by the PD. CF are required to participate in a specified amount 60%, or 24 hours/week of time in non-clinical GME program activities. 

These activities include:

1. Teaching and leading didactic activities (with a minimum requirement of 70% attendance);
2. Presentation of a minimum of four educational didactic conference presentations per year (i.e. grand rounds, case conference, etc.)
3. Serving as faculty Advisor to at least two residents per year, which entails being responsible for meeting with the resident, discussing goals, responsibilities, research, fellowship or practice planning, milestone developments, in-training exam/board exam preparations, and individualized educational plans, etc.
4. Participation in GME Family Medicine program wellness activities;
5. Completion of biannual formal evaluation of all residents in preparation for the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC);
6. Participate in program evaluation (Program Evaluation Committee, or PEC);
7. Participation in any and all ACGME Site Visit preparations and the Site Visit;
8. Participate in resident or fellow recruitment and selection including attending at least 66% of yearly resident interview sessions, if a member of the resident selection committee (as designated by the PD).
9. Completion of resident evaluations in a timely fashion in order to give appropriate timely resident feedback.
10. Attend specialty-specific board presentation conferences or other program didactics as designated by the PD.
11. Attend at least 66% of regularly scheduled program meetings.

Core faculty must participate in at least one faculty development activity annually, provided by the DHR GME Office, in each of the following areas: 

1. Education and evaluation;
2. Quality improvement, eliminating health inequities, and patient safety;
3. Fostering their own and their residents’ well-being; and
4. Patient care based on their practice-based learning and improvement efforts.

The CF member must contribute to the residency/fellowship program’s overall scholarly activity, demonstrating accomplishments in at least three of the following domains annually: 

1.   Research in basic science, education, translational science, patient care, or population health; 
2.   Peer-reviewed grants;
3. Quality improvement and/or patient safety initiatives;
4. Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, review articles, chapters in medical textbooks, or case reports;
5. Creation of curricula, evaluation tools, didactic educational activities, or electronic educational materials;
6. Contribution to professional committees, educational organizations, or editorial boards; or
7. Innovations in education.

The CF member also commits to supervising and providing clinical teaching to residents or fellows assigned to them during their clinical assignments. 

The CF is required to provide informal feedback and formal end-of-rotation (e.g. monthly) evaluations of residents or fellows they supervise, completed in New Innovations and done within fourteen (14) days of completion of the rotation.     

The CF’s educational performance will be evaluated annually by the Program Director.

The CF must be a role model of professionalism.  Any and all professionalism complaints pertaining to the CF member will be evaluated by the Program Director.

The CF must ensure the learning objectives of their designated rotation are accomplished without excessive reliance on residents to fulfill non-physician obligations. Examples of such obligations include transport of patients from the wards or units for procedures elsewhere in the hospital; routine blood drawing for laboratory tests; routine monitoring of patients when off the ward; and clerical duties, such as scheduling. While it is understood that residents may be expected to do any of these things on occasion when the need arises, these activities should be performed by residents routinely and must be kept to a minimum to optimize resident education.

The CF must submit an updated CV annually to the Program Director for evaluation.   Aggregate CF annually evaluations are included as performance indicators in the Sponsoring Institution’s Annual Institutional Review (AIR) and an executive summary of the AIR presented annually to the Sponsoring Institution’s Governing Body, the DHR Health Board of Managers.

CF must comply with DHR Health and DHR Health GME written policies and procedures governing GME, including those specified in the Institutional Requirements.

­POSITION EDUCATION:

• MD or DO degree
• Current certification in the specialty for which they are program director by the appropriate medical board, i.e. American Board of Family Medicine or by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Medicine, including ABMS or AOA certification.
• Current Texas medical licensure, DEA license, and appropriate medical staff appointment at DHR Health
• Specialty expertise; documented educational and/or administrative experience in Graduate Medical Education (GME)
• Ongoing clinical activity