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Research Coordinator for Implementation of National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research
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Current Opportunities:
- Research Coordinator for Implementation of National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research - NAPCRG
- Primary Care Physician - Louisiana State University
- Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Physician
- Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Associate/Full Professor (HSCP or ClinX) – University of California, Davis Health
Research Coordinator for Implementation of National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research
Operating Title: Research Coordinator
NAPCRG
Position Details
- FTE: 1.0 (salary and benefits/grant funded for five years)
- Salary Range: $62,000 - $70,000 (negotiable)
- Benefits Eligible: Access to health, vision, dental, 401(k), and other benefits. This position is eligible for benefits as an employee of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). STFM has a management agreement in place with NAPCRG.
Reports to
- North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Executive Director (Tom Vansaghi, PhD)
- Lead Champion for Implementation of National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research (Irfan Asif, MD)
Job Summary
On October 30, 2023, the Family Medicine Research Summit was held at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel. The Summit culminated a multi-year process to create a research-focused strategic plan for Family Medicine in the United States. This joint effort by NAPCRG and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) involved over 140 visionaries, innovators, and leaders in Family Medicine. A National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research was finalized during the August 2023 Family Medicine Leadership Council (FMLC) Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This plan includes three strategic priorities: Pathways/Mentorship, Funding and Advocacy, and Infrastructure, with each having one goal and five objectives.
In May 2024, the ABFM Foundation awarded NAPCRG a five-year grant to hire a full-time Research Coordinator. The Research Coordinator will oversee the implementation of the fifteen objectives in the strategic plan, organize champions into working groups, ensure regular meetings, and establish work plans, outcomes, and metrics. Coordination with leaders of NAPCRG, ADFM, STFM, ABFM, AFMRD, and other Family Medicine organizations will be essential. The Research Coordinator will also synchronize activities with the Lead Champion for Implementation and establish an Oversight Committee comprising representatives from five key organizations.
Job Duties
- Oversee the implementation of the National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research.
- Create and manage project timelines and track results.
- Identify key activities and performance indicators for each objective in year one.
- Organize champions of the fifteen objectives into working groups.
- Ensure regular meetings to establish work plans, outcomes, and metrics.
- Facilitate communication between leaders and members of respective associations.
- Work closely with the Lead Champion for Implementation, Dr. Irfan Asif.
- Establish and convene an Oversight Committee with representatives from key organizations.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with objective champions.
- Provide regular updates to the NAPCRG and ADFM Board of Directors.
- Prepare quarterly and annual reports to the ABFM Foundation regarding the grant.
- Support the planning and implementation of a second Family Medicine Research Summit in 2026-2027.
- Write and summarize research projects and reports.
Education
- Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in a health-related field, social work, or nonprofit leadership, with an interest in research.
- Preferred Qualifications: Postdoctoral or terminal degree in primary care, family medicine, or a related discipline.
Screening Competencies
Demonstrated experience and interest in Family Medicine, research, or related topics are preferred.
Application Instructions
Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume for consideration.
About NAPCRG
NAPCRG is an interdisciplinary volunteer association committed to nurturing primary care researchers working in partnership with individuals, families, and communities. NAPCRG is the recognized leader of primary care research that improves health and health care for patients, families, and communities.
For more information, visit NAPCRG.org
Supplemental Information on the National Family Medicine Strategic Plan for Research
Visit: https://www.napcrg.org/media/udsn31c4/family-medicine-strategic-plan-2024.pdf
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Primary Care Physician
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University Seeks a Primary Care Physician | 100% Outpatient
Opportunity | Mission-Driven Team | Live and Work in Desirable Shreveport,
Louisiana
Transform healthcare delivery in a vibrant Southern city. Louisiana State University Health Shreveport School of Medicine, in partnership with Ochsner-LSU Health, seeks a primary care physician for a 100% outpatient position. With an exclusive focus on outpatient services and minimal call duties, the incoming physician will enjoy a balance of professional challenge and personal well-being. Our mission-driven team thrives in a vibrant community, offering tailored opportunities in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Med Peds.
Opportunity Highlights
- Enjoy big city amenities with the charm of a close-knit community where traffic is light and everything is within reach
- Join a mission-driven team dedicated to significantly improving health outcomes in Shreveport
- Engage in a 100% outpatient role with minimal call duties and a robust referral system, ensuring focus and balance
- Be part of LSU Health Shreveport's rapid growth, increasing physician presence, and enhancing patient care across multiple clinics
- Opportunities available in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Med Peds tailored to your expertise
- With call responsibilities limited to a few phone calls per year, dedicate more time to patient care and less to after-hours support
Community Information
Known as Sportsman's Paradise, Shreveport, LA, is a thriving sports town with inviting gardens, wildlife refuges, lakes, and more. The Byway is a popular 136-mile scenic route that passes through four parishes and more than ten towns, showcasing the area's preserved history, recreational parks, one-of-a-kind experiences, back-road eats, and more.
- Shreveport, LA, is a Best Place to Live and Retire in the nation (US News)
- Named a City with the Lowest Cost of Living in America and a Best City to Retire in America (Niche)
- Lively music scene with regular festivals and events, including the Shreveport Blues Festival
- Delicious southern cuisine and iconic dishes like gumbo, jambalaya, and po'boys
- Historical landmarks and museums include the Louisiana State Exhibit Museum and the Shreveport Water Works Museum
- Plenty of outdoor recreation opportunities: fishing and boating on the Red River, hiking at the Red River National Wildlife Refuge, and camping at nearby state parks.
- Affordable cost of living, with a lower median home price than the national average
- A strong sense of community and Southern hospitality
- Easy access to nearby cities like Dallas and New Orleans for weekend trips or day excursions
- Several casinos, including the Eldorado Resort Casino and the Horseshoe Bossier City
- A diverse and vibrant arts scene with regular performances at venues like the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and the Strand Theatre
Interested candidates may apply by e-mailing your CV and Letter of Interest to Telana Mushlin at t_mushlin@amnhealthcare.com.
Posting expires July 23, 2024
Family Medicine Physician
Mayo Clinic Department of Family Medicine
The Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, invites board certified or board eligible Family Physicians to apply for a full-time position. The Department of Family Medicine is dedicated to providing reliable, high value, patient-centered, evidence-based medicine in an innovative clinical environment that is supported by education and research. Family Medicine physicians and allied health staff practice in a team environment and serve a large and diverse community at four practice sites.
Key Position Responsibilities:
The position is a continuity care practice, including population health management. Based on the interest of the applicant, there is opportunity to practice the full spectrum family medicine practice, including obstetrics/pediatrics/ preventive services for all age groups, as well as acute care and hospital service responsibilities. Patient care responsibilities would be complemented by participation in education (medical school and/or residency) and research.
Community Information:
Rochester, MN Mayo Clinic is located in the heart of downtown Rochester, Minnesota, a vibrant, friendly city that provides a highly livable environment for more than 34,000 Mayo staff and students. The city is consistently ranked among the best places to live in the United States because of its affordable cost of living, healthy lifestyle, excellent school systems and exceptionally high quality of life.
Join the authority in medicine and partner with the nation’s best hospital (U.S. News & World Report 2022-2023), ranked #1 in more specialties than any other care provider. And as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s Top 100 Best Companies to Work For, Mayo Clinic Health System delivers on a culture of teamwork, professionalism, mutual respect, and – most importantly – a life-changing career.
How to Apply:
For more information, contact Jeannie Green, Physician Recruiter, at green.jeannie@mayo.edu or call 507-238-8595, or visit jobs.mayoclinic.org/familymedicine to explore current opportunities.
posting expires August 8, 2024
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Associate/Full Professor (HSCP or ClinX)
University of California, Davis Health
The Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at the University of California Davis (UCD) School of Medicine envisions a healthier and more equitable world. In service to this vision, the mission of the Department is to advance the field of family medicine through innovative education, person-centered care, research and other forms of scholarship, community engagement, and advocacy, to improve population health and equity.
To help advance this mission, the DFCM at the UCD School of Medicine is recruiting for a highly skilled, engaging, and visionary full time faculty member and leader in the Professor of Clinical X or Health Sciences Clinical Professor series at the Associate or Full Professor rank, to serve as the Department’s inaugural Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs. This position reports to the Department Chair and provides Department level leadership across all our educational programs and represents the DFCM in the UC Davis (UCD) School of Medicine and in the leadership teams of community-based organizations we partner with in care and training.
Faculty in the Clinical X series is expected to engage in professional competence and activity, teaching, research and creative work, and University/public service. Faculty in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series are expected to engage in teaching, professional competence and activity, scholarly or creative activities, and University/public service.
Expectations:
Reporting structure: The Founding Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs reports to the Department Chair. Direct faculty reports to the Vice Chair are:
- Medical Director, Ellison ACC Family Medicine Clinic
- Inpatient Care Leads (2): Medicine/Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Infant Care
- The DFCM Faculty Leads (one per site) from our four community partner clinical/training sites: the One Community Health, CommuniCare, and Sacramento County Primary Care Center FQCHs, and the Mather VA Hospital
Responsibilities
The Founding Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and Community Health will be recognized as an institutional leader by UCD Health, UCD School of Medicine, and our partner community organizations in relation to equitable primary care access, delivery, and outcomes.
Leadership and administrative responsibilities (50% effort)
- Oversee clinical programs, quality, and safety improvement efforts, and support medical directors and other leaders, across all DFCM clinical settings.
- Plan, manage, implement, and evaluate clinical programs that promote access to and delivery of value-based care in a cost-efficient, equitable manner.
- Continue and expand efforts to redesign practice to achieve optimal patient outcomes and improve the clinical team’s fulfillment in practicing family medicine.
- As a member of the department’s executive leadership team, contribute to the development and implementation of departmental strategic planning, budgeting, management, and operations, including developing projections, maximizing clinical productivity, and managing revenue and expenditures.
- Meet regularly with clinical operations leaders from UCD Health and from our community partner organizations, to help align DFCM’s strategic business vision and business development with the goals of the health system and, to the extent possible, those of our community partners.
- Serve on health system and committees and represent the DFCM by advocating for patients and clinicians and working collaboratively to develop solutions to problems.
- Collaborate with the Chair, Department and practice administrators, and UCD Health Public Affairs and Marketing to develop and maintain patient outreach initiatives to market and enhance the array of services offered by the DFCM.
- Participate in or lead efforts to recruit, retain, and develop excellent clinical faculty and staff to care for patients and precept our residents at our various clinical and training sites.
- Oversee clinical credentialing, onboarding, and proctoring of clinical faculty across the DFCM with support from designated Departmental and partner site administrative staff
An especially critical role of the Vice Chair is to develop and maintain close working relationships with the DFCM faculty site leaders and the clinical and administrative leaders and managers at each of our clinical and clinical training sites to develop strategically aligned goals to increase productivity; enhance care quality and patient and provider experience metrics; anticipate and respond to new and evolving (e.g., value-based) payment models; improve the health of underserved and vulnerable patients, families, and communities; and increase our engagement with and accountability to the communities we serve, while ensuring that trainees at each site participate in and learn from these efforts.
Another critical role of the Vice Chair is to partner with the various site leaders and their teams to identify, advocate for, and oversee shared, uniform adoption of clinical and clinical training “best practices” across the sites.
Through our collective work at these diverse clinical and training sites, led or facilitated by the Vice Chair, the Department aims to enhance the quality of life for underserved and vulnerable patients, families, and communities, while educating future generations of highly skilled, compassionate, service-oriented, and personally fulfilled family physicians well-equipped to employ the state-of-the-art approaches they learned in
Clinical responsibilities (40% effort)
- Build and provide top quality primary care to an outpatient panel of size proportionate to clinical effort.
Teaching and scholarship responsibilities (10% effort)
- Provide clinical (“bedside”) and didactic teaching to residents, medical students, and potentially other trainees (e.g., nursing students), with a particular focus on practice and panel management, population health, billing and coding, health care financing, health insurance, disparities in healthcare access and delivery, and other related topics.
- Promote, support, and personally participate in research and/or other forms of scholarship (e.g., evaluation, curriculum), again with a particular focus on “delivery and practice of healthcare” topics.
Desired characteristics:
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build trust and longstanding relationships
- Approachability, honesty, and transparency
- The ability to articulate a vision, recruit support for achieving it, and convey genuine passion for the organization’s mission and objectives
- A collegial, consultative, and diplomatic management style that respects and facilitates interdisciplinary/inter-professional cooperation
- Analytical skills and conceptual thinking that embraces challenges, identifies opportunities, and catalyzes action
- Ability to thrive in a complex matrix organization with the typically high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity inherent to such organizations
- Adaptability to change and the ability to conceive of alternative approaches to achieving results
- Strong sense of self and emotional intelligence, political acumen, and personal humility
- Unquestioned personal integrity
Qualifications (required at time of application):
Candidate must possess or be eligible for the following:
- Current M.D. or D.O. medical license
- Active board certification in Family Medicine
- Medical licensure or eligible for licensure in the state of California
- Track record of progressive success in the leadership and administration of large clinical programs in complex adaptive systems – preferably in the academic healthcare environment and encompassing both inpatient and outpatient care delivery as well as partnerships with community-based primary care organizations
- Demonstrated experience and success in family medicine clinical programs, education, and research or scholarly work
- Demonstrated experience and success working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and learner environment
- Eligible for appointment as Associate professor or Professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine
School and Community Information:
The DFCM is located on the UCD Health campus in Sacramento, California, and headquartered at the UCD School of Medicine, which US News and World Report ranked #3 nationally for student diversity, #7 for family medicine, and #9 for primary care in 2023. Under the leadership of Department Chair Anthony Jerant, MD, the DFCM is in an and exciting phase of its 50-year history at a time of rapid transformation in healthcare. Known for outstanding education, clinical care, and ground-breaking research, the Department has over the past five years greatly expanded its presence in the local community, forging several mutually beneficial and successful clinical training relationships with partner organizations. These partnerships are designed both to ensure excellent training of our students and residents in caring for underserved and vulnerable patients most in need of care, and to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities locally, regionally, and beyond.
We are in Sacramento, the capitol of trend-setting California - a highly diverse and growing community (metropolitan area population 2.4 million), and a great place to live and work. The city and its surrounding communities are booming with many cultural activities, world-renown farm to table dining, and a plethora of outdoor activities to enjoy.
The Department includes 23 faculty physicians, 5 staff physicians, and 42 resident physicians. We are a diverse group of clinicians, educators, and scholars who strive to deliver outstanding care to all our patients, improve the way primary care is provided, and educate the next generation of clinicians including family physicians, all pursued through an equity lens.
The Departmental commitment to equity in care access, delivery, and health is exemplified by our inpatient and outpatient clinical and training sites, all of which have a strong focus on providing high quality, evidence-based, person-centered care to medically under-served and vulnerable patients, families, and communities.
Our inpatient care sites include the UCD Medical Center hospital, part of a complex academic health system that among other missions serves as the regional safety net for those most in need, and at nearby Mather Veterans Administration Hospital (MVAH)
Our outpatient in person and telemedicine care is delivered at four sites located on or close to the UCD Health campus:
- At the Ellison ACC Family Medicine Clinic practice, located on the UCD Health campus, currently there are 6.8 full time equivalent (FTE) faculty and staff physicians providing care and precepting, and 29 residents with continuity panels, collectively seeing approximately 2000 patients per month. This is an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved continuity FM training site.
- At the One Community Health (OCH) FQHC located in nearby Midtown, Sacramento, there are 1.7 FTE staff and faculty DFCM physicians providing care and resident precepting, and 13 residents with continuity panels. This is ACGME approved continuity FM training site.
- At CommuniCare FQHC offices located in nearby West Sacramento, Davis, and Woodland, there are 0.7 FTE staff and faculty DFCM physicians providing care and precepting, and 16 residents providing longitudinal continuity care.
- At the Sacramento County Primary Care Center (PCC) FQHC located in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, adjacent to the UCD Health campus, there are a combined 1.5 FTE staff and faculty DFCM physicians providing care and precepting, and 13 residents providing longitudinal continuity care.
How to Apply:
For the full position description and to apply, visit https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05789.
- Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
- Cover Letter
- Statement of Research
- Statement of Teaching
- Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion documented in the application file will be used to evaluate applicants. Visit https://academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/faculty-equity-and-inclusion for guidelines about writing a statement and why one is requested.
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