What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Director – Rural Family Medicine Residency Program – F67850 position at VCU Health - MCV Physicians?
Program Director – Rural Family Medicine Residency Program – F67850
The Program Director Position
As a founding core faculty member and the Program Director, you will be responsible for helping to build this program from the ground up! We anticipate having residents in post no later than July 1, 2023. Prior to that time, the Program Director will be responsible for working with the Associate Program Director to design curriculum, prepare and execute the ACGME application, help conduct initial recruiting for clinical faculty and residents; while maintaining time for independent clinical practice and scholarship. As Program Director and Core Faculty, once the residents arrive, we anticipate faculty will spend a majority of time on clinical precepting, direct resident and medical student education in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, and educational administration. The remaining time will be devoted to your own direct clinical practice. This position will be primarily based at VCU’s Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, VA; while the Associate Program Director is located primarily on the MCV Campus of VCU Health in Richmond, VA.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Demonstrates dedication to Family Medicine
- Responsible for monitoring the faculty appointments, assignments, outcomes, and proper conduct of educational
- Responsible for the supervision, direction, evaluation, and administration of the Family Medicine Education Program.
- Responsibilities for the Family Medicine Program includes :
Provide direction and leadership necessary to obtain and / or maintain the Family Medicine Residency Program with Full Residency Review Committee
Education and Teaching
Uphold the VCU Health Mission as a teaching institution and support projects relating to that goal. Be a model teacher for faculty, residents, student learners, interdisciplinary teams, and staff that supports a culture of inquiry and inspires high quality, evidence-based healthcare for all.
Professional Growth and Development
Maintain clinical competency in Family
Set short- and long-term goals for professional growth
General Goals
Lead the development of and continue the improvement of the Rural Family Medicine Residency to be a leading residency program
Specifications
Able to obtain license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Past experience in providing direct patient care and / or residency training in rural settings
Recent scholarly activity such as peer reviewed funding, publication of original research or review articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in textbooks, publication or presentation of clinical series or case reports at scientific society meetings, or participation in national committees or educational organizations
The Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at VCU was founded in 1970. It has a long and proud history of training medical students and resident physicians. Our Department houses all of our family medicine medical student education programs, including a highly rated clerkship and two longitudinal, four-year track programs : The Inner City International Rural Program I2CRP is a 4-year longitudinal program for medical students who are invested in serving medically underserved populations. The mission of the program is to increase the number of students who choose career paths in primary care and who practice in underserved settings. The program enrolls up to 24 students per cohort or approximately 96 students during the M1 – M4 years. The preclinical curriculum includes didactics, journal clubs, grand rounds presentations, and service roles in underserved settings. The clinical curriculum includes second-year preceptorships in urban and rural underserved settings and clerkship rotations in urban, rural, and international underserved settings in Family Medicine, general Pediatrics, Ambulatory Medicine, and general Surgery. Students also complete a scholarly capstone project that is relevant to medically underserved communities. We also have four affiliated family medicine residency programs at various locations around the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Residency
VCU’s Department of Family Medicine and Population Health is incredibly excited to share with you that we are in the process of creating a new rural training track family medicine residency. The residency will focus on serving the underserved in the urban population in Richmond, VA, in the rural area of South Hill, VA, and internationally! Our goal is for this program to be a model program for training those dedicated to serving underserved populations in a variety of settings and advancing family physicians’ abilities to address health disparities and inequities, in addition to providing the highest quality clinical care. The program is designed to base the first-year residents at VCU’s flagship academic medical center in Richmond, VA, then have second- and third-year residents based at VCU’s Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, VA. The program will focus on broad-spectrum training and common procedures important in caring for underserved populations across diverse settings. We plan to have our first class of residents in post no later than July 1, 2023.
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