Family Medicine Residency Faculty

Trinity Health Livonia Family Medicine Residency is seeking a BC/BE Family Medicine Physician to join the Residency Faculty. Teaching experience is preferred but not required.

About the Role

The faculty member will provide resident supervision/teaching (0.7 FTE) and clinical services (0.3 FTE) in our outpatient Academic Family Medicine Center in Livonia. Flexibility is available for outpatient and/or inpatient interests, including newborn rounding opportunities for interested candidates.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a strong interest in the education of residents and devote sufficient time to the program to fulfill required supervisory and teaching responsibilities.
• Serve as a role model of professionalism, personal well-being, patient safety, and effective teamwork.
• Administer and maintain an educational environment conducive to educating residents.
• Foster a professional, equitable, respectful, and civil clinical learning environment free from discrimination, harassment, mistreatment, abuse, or coercion.
• Demonstrate commitment to the delivery of safe, quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care.
• Provide appropriate clinical supervision of trainees, allowing graded authority and responsibility for safe patient care.
• Delegate portions of care to residents based on patient needs and trainee skills to promote development.
• Regularly participate in organized clinical discussions, rounds, journal clubs, and conferences.
• Participate in annual faculty development to enhance 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.
• Report to the Program Director for educational and program-related issues.

Requirements

• Appropriate qualifications in the field and hold institutional appointments in the teaching institution.
• Current certification in family medicine or relevant subspecialty by the appropriate AMBS or AOA Board.

Core Faculty Designation

• Must be designated by the program director.
• Must have a significant role in the education and supervision of residents/fellows.
• Must devote a significant portion of effort to education and/or administration.
• Must teach, evaluate, and provide formative feedback to trainees.
• Must complete the annual ACGME Faculty Survey.
• Demonstrate scholarly activity in at least one domain annually (e.g., research, quality improvement, case reports, publications, patient safety initiatives, curriculum development, or professional committee service).
• Actively participate on the program's Clinical Competence Committee (CCC) and Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Paid malpractice insurance.
• 403b retirement plan.

Trinity Health Livonia Family Medicine Residency has 18 residents and is applying for Osteopathic Recognition. Join an engaged team with a strong passion for teaching and a supportive culture.