Family Medicine Residency Director of Osteopathic Education

Overview

Central Maine Healthcare is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving 400,000 people living in central, western and Midcoast Maine. CMH's hospital facilities include Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Bridgton Hospital and Rumford Hospital. CMH also supports Central Maine Medical Group, a primary and specialty care practice organization. Other system services include the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, a regional trauma program, Life Flight of Maine's southern Maine base, the Central Maine Comprehensive Cancer Center and other high-quality clinical services.

If you are passionate about making a difference and are looking for your next great career opportunity, we look forward to reviewing your application!

Position Summary: The core faculty member for our Family Medicine Residency program will play a key role in educating and training future family medicine physicians. The Director of Osteopathic Education has additional responsibilities to ensure that all residents that desire and qualify for participation on the Osteopathic Recognition Track have an appropriate educational experience. The successful candidate will have the requisite osteopathic expertise and possess strong clinical and teaching skills, and will work collaboratively with the program director, residents, and other faculty members to provide a comprehensive educational experience for our residents.

This position reports to the Program Director.

Essential Duties:

PATIENT CARE

• Provide evidence based, cost-effective, high-quality care for patients

• Participate in and lead quality improvement activities that include an emphasis on reducing health disparities

• Keep up all licenses and board certifications as required

• Complete all clinical charting in a timely fashion

• Coordinate and lead interprofessional, team-based care with respect and compassion

• Actively work toward improving the health of the community through understanding local needs and disparities

EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE

• Development and implementation of Osteopathic Practices and Principles curriculum

• Teach and train resident physicians, medical students, and other learners (when applicable) in the theory, science, and identity of Family Medicine within systems of health care

• Engage in and role-model lifelong learning practices and intellectual curiosity

• Epitomize professionalism in teaching, clinical care, leadership, and advocacy

• Provide didactic lectures for the residency program as directed by the Program Director or designee that include relevant information on health disparities

• Serve as a mentor and advisor for the residents

• Participate and lead in scholarly activity driven by interest and as directed by the program director

• Deliver and provide an engaging learning curriculum and environment

• Develop, utilize and contribute to competency-based curriculum that incorporates learning objectives specific to DEI

• Actively participate in and facilitates faculty development activities

• Evaluate Family Medicine residents and medical students (when relevant) in a timely manner using competency based/milestone evaluations and via direct observation and other relevant evaluation methods. Special attention will be made to evaluate Osteopathic Principles and Practice

• Coordinate and update relevant didactics sessions as well as assigned rotation or longitudinal curriculum

• Supervise Family Medicine Residents QA/QI and research activities as required/appropriate

• Engage in Osteopathic professional development

• Attends didactics when not scheduled for patient care or covering the inpatient service

• Provides at least 4 didactic sessions annually

• Seek feedback on own performance and work to use feedback to improve performance

• Provide feedback in a respectful and behavior focused manner

• Work with the faculty team to develop, implement, and evaluate performance improvement and remediation plans for learners

ADMINISTRATIVE

• Administer and maintain an environment conducive to osteopathic education

• Review and approve faculty and residents to participate on the Osteopathic Recognition Track

• Serve on committees at the hospital or clinic to enhance medical education, patient…