Physician - Core Faculty Family Medicine

Details

• Specialty: Family Medicine

• Subspecialty: Medical Education

• Schedule: 40 hours per week: designated hours for precepting, private clinic, faculty meetings and non-clinical residency administrative time.

• Call Schedule: one of every 6 weeks

• Practice Detail: Ascension St. Joseph Chicago Family Medicine Residency Program is recruiting a Full Time Core Faculty position in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.

• EMR System: EPIC

• Facility: Ascension Seton Family Medicine Residency Program

• Location: Chicago, IL

This job location is currently located in a Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Shortage Designation Type

Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community

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Ascesion Medical Group is looking for a full-time Family Medicine Physician for our Core Faculty as part of Ascension Saint Joseph Family Medicine Residency in Chicago, IL.

This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to partner with Ascension Illinoisto provide medical services to patients.

Position Highlights:

• We are a close knit team that is dedicated to teaching and adapting to the changing landscape of medicine and medical education based on resident and patient needs.

• We are looking for a dynamic family doctor that is passionate about caring for and teaching the full breadth and depth of family medicine including all ages, all genders, inpatient medicine, outpatient medicine, procedures, and prenatal care precepting.

• This position would be ideal for a physician with an interest in Obstetrics as we are expanding our obstetric opportunities for our residents and core faculty.

Please visit our residency website: https://medicaleducation.ascension.org/illinois-family-medicine-saint-joseph-chicago

Responsibilities:

• Participate in curriculum development, faculty development, evaluations, milestones, teaching, etc.
• Administer and maintain an educational environment conducive to educating residents in each of the ACGME competency areas.
• Evaluate and treat patients with appropriate medical diagnostic and treatment skills.
• Recommends, participates in, and works to ensure the success of efforts to improve cost effectiveness and quality of care provided to patients.
• Accepts patient referrals from other physicians.
• Acts as admitting, attending and/or consulting physician for patients who require hospitalization for primary medical diagnoses, depending on needs of patients, medical staff and hospital.
• Participates in academic programs (Including medical education and scholarly activity)
• Provides appropriate documentation that meets insurance company requirements; appeal all denials in a timely manner.
• Participates in inpatient and outpatient consultation for specialty, which includes on call schedules.
• Devote the majority of their professional effort to teaching, administration, scholarly activity and patient care within the program.

Weekly Schedule Details:

• Schedule is based on 40 hours per week: 12 hours private clinic per week.
  8-12 hours resident precepting per week. 4 hours of faculty meetings per week.
  8 hours of non-clinical residency administrative time for teaching, curriculum development, resident evaluation, precepting chart review and follow up and residency administration. There are
  4 hours of non-clinical administrative time for patient follow up, documentation, responding to patient inquiries, from your private clinics.
• One out of every 6 weeks when the designated inpatient faculty member is rounding in the hospital, the schedule is Monday - Friday - 5 morning sessions rounding on patients and supervising/teaching residents and 3 private clinic sessions, 1 admin session and 1 faculty meeting for that week.
• Weekend hospital rounding is 1 out of 6 weekends the faculty member will round in the hospital Saturday and Sunday with the residents.
  

Additional Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and treat patients with appropriate medical diagnostic and treatment skills.
• Coordinate discharge planning with case management.
• Recommend, participate in, and work to ensure the success of efforts to improve cost effectiveness and quality of care provided to patients.
• Accept patient referrals from other physicians.
• Act as admitting, attending and/or consulting physician for patients who require hospitalization for primary medical diagnoses, depending on needs of patients, medical staff and hospital.
• Participate in academic programs (eg medical education and research) as requested.
• Provide appropriate documentation that meets insurance company requirements; appeal all denials in a timely manner.
• Participate in inpatient and outpatient consultation for specialty, which may include on call schedules.

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• Physician MD/DO credentialed from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required. Credentials are verified by local staff credentialing office.
• Advanced Life Support credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) preferred.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) required.

No additional preferences.

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