Faculty Physician, Waco Family Medicine - Residency (WFM-R) (3947)

WACO FAMILY MEDICINE•Waco, TX

67d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time Faculty Physician position for the Waco Family Medicine - Residency program. The role involves training family medicine residents, medical students, and other allied learners in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The faculty member will provide direct patient care, teach, supervise, and evaluate trainees, and participate in administrative duties. A genuine desire to continuously learn and provide high-quality, culturally sensitive patient care is essential, along with demonstrating the highest levels of professionalism and integrity.

Requirements

M.D. or D.O. degree from accredited school
Completion of a residency in Family Medicine
Current certification through the American Board of Family Medicine or American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians
Current, unrestricted Texas Licensure with TSBME and DPS or Texas-eligible
Current, unrestricted DEA license
Current BLS, ACLS, PALS and NRP certification
Constant contact with fellow faculty, residents, employees, and patients in person, on the telephone, via HIPAA-compliant messaging and in writing.
Daily contact with residents, fellow faculty, and private attendings.
A high level of professionalism is required as the faculty member must be able to communicate effectively, maintain excellent rapport, and instill confidence in patients, residents, and staff.
Visual and auditory accuracy
Variable shift length, including nighttime call duties
Indoor setting
Continuous use of computer
Long periods of sitting
Frequent use of telephone and/or smart devices
Continuous repetitive grasping and manipulation with both hands
Continuous conversational communication
Occasional reaching, walking, squatting, bending, kneeling, twisting and climbing
Occasionally carrying, lifting, pushing and pulling of up to 25 lbs.
Frequent use of personal car
Understand/carry out simple/detailed, oral/written instructions
Memorize and retain instructions
Read and interpret detailed specifications

Nice To Haves

Supervision of family medicine residents and other trainees in OB including the labor and delivery setting is optional but preferred.
ALSO, STABLE, ATLS all optional

Responsibilities

Attend assigned faculty, departmental, and committee conferences/meetings.
Participate in ongoing quality improvement projects.
Participate in faculty development activities.
Oversight and championing of assigned curricular components.
Maintain admission privileges at both Baylor Scott and White Hillcrest and Ascension Providence.
Take a history and perform a physical examination.
Administer injections.
Use sterile technique and universal precautions.
Move throughout the clinical sites and hospitals to address routine and emergent patient care needs.
Perform routine and complicated vaginal deliveries, repair perineal lacerations, and assist at operations (if OB activities included).
Communicate with patients and staff, verbally and otherwise in a culturally sensitive manner that exhibits good professional judgment, respect and good listening skills and is appropriate for the professional setting.
Demonstrate timely, consistent, and reliable follow-up on patient care issues, such as laboratory results, patient phone calls, or other requests.
Input and retrieve computer data through a keyboard, read a computer screen, secure and maintain a reliable personal cell phone.
Demonstrate literacy in reading and navigating the electronic medical record and the various electronic patient monitoring systems present in the hospital setting.
Perform documentation procedures such as progress notes, chart dictations, and other paperwork in a timely fashion.
Manage multiple patient care duties at the same time.
Make judgments and decisions regarding complicated, undifferentiated disease presentations in a timely fashion in emergency, ambulatory, and hospital settings.
Demonstrate organizational skills required to care for 9-12 or more outpatient patient care visits per half day.
Work varied duty hours including some nights, weekends, and holidays.
Travel to and between multiple clinical sites that may not be readily accessible by public transportation.
Take call for periods of up to 1 week at a time from home, with trips to the hospital as required by patient condition during that time.
Present well-organized case presentations and lectures to other physicians or supervisors both in-person and by telephone.
Teaching, supervision, and evaluation of family medicine residents and other trainees in outpatient clinic settings, including performance of outpatient procedures and review of related medical records created by trainees.
Teaching, supervision and evaluation of family medicine residents and other trainees in hospital settings, including adult, pediatric, and adult ICU care.
Supervision of family medicine residents and other trainees in OB including the labor and delivery setting is optional but preferred.
Supervisory responsibilities also include leading rounds, bedside teaching, writing attending notes, supervision of procedures and overseeing interactions with consultants.
Participation in providing structured teaching experiences for family medicine residents and other trainees through methods such as lectures, discussion groups and case conferences.
Participation in faculty meetings and conferences and in faculty decision-making processes.
Participation in interviewing and evaluation of family medicine residency applicants.
Provide longitudinal advising and mentoring for family medicine residents.
Direct patient care activities through continuity outpatient care at WFM – Central and/or other WFM clinical sites as needed.
Supervision of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in the outpatient setting.