Join MAHEC’s Family Medicine team at our multidisciplinary clinic in beautiful Cullowhee, NC, where you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact through patient care, teaching, and mentorship, and increasing accessibility to rural healthcare. This Faculty Physician role combines a robust outpatient practice and contributes to shaping the next generation of family physicians through resident and student education. Ideal candidates are passionate about evidence-based medicine, collaborative team-based care, and academic medicine, with a desire to contribute to scholarship, community health, and the advancement of Family Medicine across Western North Carolina.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Faculty Practice Physician Faculty- will provide excellent, evidence-based, efficient patient care services, as well as resident and student teaching, mentoring, effective supervision. This role is within the department of Family Medicine to help meet the clinical needs of the department.
Directly care for ambulatory patients in any of the FM Practice sites (Biltmore, Enka-Candler, New bridge, Cane Creek)
Teach and mentor learners in evidenced-based care
Participate in and foster scholarship in the ambulatory setting
Provide services in the inpatient setting at Mission Hospital
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
Clinical
Provide direct clinical care to Family Medicine patients for six-seven ½ days weekly, to include all patients in the ambulatory setting.
Provide direct clinical care and oversight of resident teams in the inpatient setting at Mission hospital – 5-10 weeks per year.
Comply in a timely manner with all institutional policies for professional work, including credentialing, documentation, and billing.
Work effectively with other members of the extended inter-professional team.
Additional clinical duties as necessary for emergent situations or as arranged otherwise with the employee.
Teaching
Serve as a faculty advisor and mentor for residents.
Promote and participate in education programs of the department (continuing education, resident, student), to include didactics in areas of interest in Internal Medicine
Supervise and teach learners in both the ambulatory and inpatient environment.
Research
Demonstrate commitment to community-based health sciences and research.
Pursue scholarly activity.
This role description is a general description of the essential job functions. It is not intended to describe all the duties the Family Practice Physician Faculty may perform.
KEY COMPETENCIES:
Communication Skills
Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.
Decision Making
Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.
HealthCare Knowledge
Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate. This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.
Interpersonal Skills
Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of…