What are the responsibilities and job description for the Department Faculty - Family & Community Medicine position at University of Kansas Medical Center?
Department
SOM Wichita Family and Community Medicine (FCM)
Family & Community Medicine
Position Title
Department Faculty - Family & Community Medicine
Job Family Group
Academic
Job Description Summary
Department Faculty is responsible for medical student education, patient care, service, and research/scholarly activities.
Job Description
Education – 35%
Faculty member must be able to obtain hospital privileges.
Required Qualifications
Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO, or equivalent degree)
This position requires a formal degree in the cited discipline area(s) to ensure that candidates have the foundational knowledge and skill set required to perform the duties of the position. The level of degree is based on accreditation requirements, institutional standards of academic and professional excellence, alignment with peer institution benchmarks, and contributes to the credibility and effectiveness of the role within the university community.
Licenses/Certifications
Work Experience:
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Employee Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
SOM Wichita Family and Community Medicine (FCM)
Family & Community Medicine
Position Title
Department Faculty - Family & Community Medicine
Job Family Group
Academic
Job Description Summary
Department Faculty is responsible for medical student education, patient care, service, and research/scholarly activities.
Job Description
Education – 35%
- Serves as Family Medicine Clerkship Assistant Director
- Assists with Family Medicine rural rotations, sub-internships and electives
- Assists with development of new family medicine electives
- Teaches first and second year medical students through clinical, didactics, and small group methodologies
- Activities that support department teaching functions including but not limited to standardized patient monitoring, academic detailing, teaching clinical skills, problem-based learning sessions, lectures, etc.
- Assists with residency lectures, small group sessions and skills-based teaching
- 2-5 half-days per week patient care and/or residency teaching supervision, including maternal health care
- Periodically supervise medical students at JayDoc Community Clinic
- Medical call with residency faculty including maternal health care, deliveries, and inpatient care
- Provide ambulatory, inpatient care, and/or obstetric care
- Develops own focus of scholarly activity including national and regional publications and presentations
- Assists with grants as appropriate
- School, campus and department committees as assigned or elected
- Assist with campus and schoolwide teaching and support (e.g. student advising, Issues in Medicine, Enrichment Weeks, Introphase, medical student admissions interviews, etc.)
- Assist with administration of department activities (e.g. Family Medicine Interest Group and JayDoc Community Clinic, etc.)
- Participate in faculty development activities including attendance and presentation at seminars
Faculty member must be able to obtain hospital privileges.
Required Qualifications
Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO, or equivalent degree)
This position requires a formal degree in the cited discipline area(s) to ensure that candidates have the foundational knowledge and skill set required to perform the duties of the position. The level of degree is based on accreditation requirements, institutional standards of academic and professional excellence, alignment with peer institution benchmarks, and contributes to the credibility and effectiveness of the role within the university community.
Licenses/Certifications
- Completion of residency Board Certification in Family Medicine or eligible for Board Certification
- Unrestricted Kansas license to practice medicine
- Federal narcotics number
Work Experience:
- Experience teaching and supervising residents and medical students
- Demonstrated academic achievement
- Demonstrated scholarly activity
- Previous medical practice experience
- CV
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Coverage begins on day one for health, dental, and vision insurance and includes health expense accounts with generous employer contributions if the employee participates in a qualifying health plan. Employer-paid life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and various additional voluntary insurance plans are available. Paid time off, including vacation and sick, begins accruing upon hire, plus ten paid holidays. One paid discretionary day is available after six months of employment, and paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave is available after 12 months of employment. A retirement program with a generous employer contribution and additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b) are available. https://www.kumc.edu/human-resources/benefits.html
Employee Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time