Faculty - Family and Community Medicine

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Employer-funded retirement plan

Medical plans: PPO and HDHP with HSA

Professional development funds

Starting bonus

Professional liability insurance

Job summary

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed) is expanding its Department of Family and Community Medicine in Kalamazoo. The faculty role focuses on teaching residents, delivering obstetric and general family medicine care, and serving the community through diverse specialty clinics.

Obstetrics is preferred but not required. The position supports faculty interests, includes CME funding and a defined pension plan with retirement options, and offers a 1.0 FTE appointment

Responsibilities

• Providing family medicine care across the lifespan in inpatient and outpatient settings with residents and students.
• Recruitment, supervision, education, and assessment of resident physicians.
• Providing high-quality instruction for graduate and undergraduate medical education.
• Participation in quality improvement, utilization review, and outcomes management.
• Other duties as assigned by the Department.

Job description

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. We are excited and proud of our departments 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. To share this posting, please use this link.

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 family medicine care across the lifespan, including inpatient and outpatient care with our residents and students.
• Obstetrics is preferred but not requierd.
• 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.