The Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) is seeking an enthusiastic faculty member who loves teaching residents, delivering babies, and serving our community through our expanded family medicine specialty services at our new clinic.
The DFCM welcomed a new clinic and a new chair in 2022 to support its dynamic faculty with a focus on faculty development and service to the community. We are excited and proud of our department's street medicine program, OMM clinic, medically managed weight loss clinic, transgender clinic, skin and procedures clinic, sports medicine and palliative care fellowships, and a substance use disorders clinic starting in the fall of 2024, adding to our continuity clinic.
Our dually accredited ACGME/AOA 9-9-9 Kalamazoo-based residency is housed in our new 20 room clinic and departmental offices ideally located to serve our diverse community. The DFCM is expanding and supports individual faculty interests and their skillsets.
If you are passionate about teaching and interested in modest housing costs, access to lakes, trails, parks, forests, rivers, music, art fairs, museums and 4 beautiful seasons, then this could be your new path!
Benefits include CME funding, generous vacation time, and a defined pension plan in addition to a 457b plan for 1.0 FTE faculty.
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BENEFITS: Wellness reimbursement. Continuing education and tuition reimbursement. Employer-funded retirement plan. Two medical plan options: PPO and High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with employer HSA contribution. Up to $6,300 annually for professional development. Starting bonus (as applicable). Professional liability insurance coverage.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Providing full scope family medicine including inpatient, outpatient, and obstetrics care with our residents and students. Providing clinical services through resident supervision and patient care. Participating in the WMed systems of quality improvement, utilization review, and outcomes management. Recruitment, supervision, education, and assessment of resident physicians. Providing high-quality instruction for the graduate and undergraduate medical education. Other duties as assigned by the Department.
QUALIFICATIONS: MD or DO degree. Completion of an accredited residency program. Board certification or eligibility by the American Board of Family Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. Eligibility for Michigan license. Current BLS certification, required. Dedicated commitment to providing a quality educational experience for residents and medical students. A sense of adventure and willingness to work as a team player as we continue to excel as a new Family Medicine Residency.
About Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) We are committed to excellence and health equity through transformative medical education, high-quality, patient- and family-centered care, innovative research, and community partnerships within a welcoming, supportive, and engaging culture. Our vision is health equity for all in Southwest Michigan through innovation in the practice and study of medicine.
The medical school is a collaboration of Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo's two teaching health systems, Beacon and Bronson Healthcare. The medical school is a private nonprofit corporation supported by private gifts, clinical revenues, research activities, tuition, and endowment income. WMed is the recipient of a $100 million foundational gift and the Empowering Futures Gift, a philanthropic commitment of $300 million to support the mission of the medical school.
WMed contributes to the economic vitality of Southwest Michigan through the services we provide, as well as the creation of 1,600 new jobs, with an estimated annual economic impact of $353 million in Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties. WMed is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Higher Learning Commission. The medical school offers a comprehensive, innovative four-year Doctor of Medicine degree program as well as a Master of Science degree program in Biomedical Sciences.
We train physicians in 10 residencies and four fellowships accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. To support our educational mission, we have Joint Accreditation for interprofessional continuing education, which incorporates accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
WMed Health is the clinical practice of the medical school with more than 300 providers offering comprehensive primary care and specialty services in several locations throughout the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek areas. Faculty in the Department of Pathology serve as the Office of the Medical Examiner for counties throughout Michigan and northern Indiana.
The W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus located in downtown Kalamazoo serves as the primary educational facility with student study and social spaces, team-based learning halls, faculty and administrative offices, a state-of-the-art Simulation Center accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, basic science research labs, as well as toxicology and forensic pathology labs.
WMed builds upon Kalamazoo's century-long foundation of drug discovery and medical device development with a strategic investment in clinical, laboratory, community, and educational research. The Center for Immunobiology, Center for Clinical Research, Research Histology Lab, Innovation Center, and Human Research Protection Program contribute to the medical school's advancement of knowledge through innovation and discovery.
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