Faculty Physician / Clinician Educator (Chatham Hospital)

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit:

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.

Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.

Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary:

The Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in association with UNC Health Care System, is seeking candidate for a Faculty Physician/ Clinician Educator opening based at Chatham Hospital in Siler City, NC. Chatham Hospital is a critical access hospital with an emergency department, hospitalist and maternity care teaching service entirely staffed by UNC Department of Family Medicine faculty physicians. This is a unique opportunity to join an academically diverse and energetic faculty engaged in the provision of care to a rural population while training the next generation of physicians and other health care providers to provide care to underserved populations.

The mission of the UNC Department of Family Medicine is to promote the health of the people of North Carolina and the nation through leadership and innovation in clinical practice, medical education, research and community service. We are concerned with both current needs and future generations, and have a special commitment to the underserved, mothers and children, the elderly and other populations at risk in a time of rapid changes in the organization of health care. Learn more about the Department of Family Medicine at:

https://www.med.unc.edu/fammed/

The Faculty Physician/ Clinician Educator positions will be an integral part of the maternity and surgical services at Chatham Hospital. Specific responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Clinical: The clinical responsibilities will include covering labor & delivery, including surgical coverage; women’s health clinic, and women’s health surgery. Depending on the applicant’s qualifications and training, other clinical responsibilities may include working as a hospitalist, continuity clinic, and/or specialty clinics.

Teaching & Education: This will be a rich teaching environment which will include residents, medical students, and fellows.

Research: All faculty are encouraged to develop a scholarly interest. Clinical faculty are expected to produce a scholarly product, which may include national presentations and should include manuscript submission, at a rate of one every one or two years.

Supervision: This position likely will involve supervision of a midwife, nurse practitioner, and/or physician assistant.

Institutional Citizenship: All faculty are expected to work as part of the larger team to improve access, reduce cost, improve quality, and promote efficiency and better health outcomes. You may be requested to engage in community outreach and attend professional events to assist with program development and building professional relationships with referring providers. In addition, attention to timely and complete documentation, patient satisfaction, and referring physician satisfaction are expected of each faculty member in our department.

Faculty rank and salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience, plus excellent UNC faculty physician benefits and clinical incentive pay.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

MD or DO required. Candidates must be board-eligible or board-certified in Family Medicine. Completion of an ACGME approved 3-year family medicine residency program that included strong training in perinatal healthcare. Fellowship training in operative obstetrics is mandatory.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:

Fellowship training and/or an advanced degree (e.g. MPH) is highly desirable, but not mandatory.

Special Instructions:

Please provide at least 2, no more than 5 references, to be contacted.