Family Medicine Residency Faculty

Teaching Faculty Requirements

• Demonstrate a strong interest in the education of residents and devote sufficient time to the program to fulfill required supervisory and teaching responsibilities.
• Be a role model of professionalism, personal well-being, patient safety, and effective teamwork.
• Demonstrate commitment to the delivery of safe, quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care.
• Provide appropriate clinical supervision of trainees that allows graded authority and responsibility for safe patient care.
• Delegate portions of care to residents based on the needs of the patient and the skills of each trainee to promote the development of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and empathy required for the trainee to enter the unsupervised practice of medicine.
• Foster a professional, equitable, respectful, and civil clinical learning environment that is free from discrimination, sexual and other forms of harassment, mistreatment, abuse, or coercion of students, residents, faculty, and staff.
• Regularly participate in organized clinical discussions, rounds, journal clubs, and conferences.
• Participate in personal annual faculty development designed to enhance their skills as an educator and mentor.
• Directly observe, evaluate, and frequently provide feedback on resident performance.
• Document evaluation of trainees at the completion of each rotation assignment (or at least every 3 months for longitudinal experiences).
• Provide clinical care (without trainees), as requested by the Program Director and Site Medical Director, to best fit the needs of the residency program.
• Report to the Program Director for educational and program-related issues.

Teaching Faculty Qualifications

• Physician faculty members must have current certification in family medicine or relevant subspecialty by the appropriate AMBS or AOA Board.

Core Faculty Designation

• Core faculty members must be designated by the program director.
• Core faculty members must have a significant role in the education and supervision of residents/fellows and must devote a significant portion of their entire effort to education and/or administration.
• Core faculty members must complete the annual ACGME Faculty Survey.
• Core faculty members should demonstrate scholarly activity in >1 domain annually:
• Research, quality improvement, or case report presentations or publications.
• Contributions to textbooks, online reference materials, journal review/editing, or journal editorial board.
• Patient safety initiatives.
• Creation of program curricula, evaluation tools, didactic educational activities, or electronic educational materials.
• Service on professional committees or educational organizations.
• Program innovations in education, educational workshops or webinars.
• Grand rounds presentation.
• Core faculty members should actively participate on the program's Clinical Competence Committee (CCC) and Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) as assigned by the Program Director.