LifeLong Medical Care
The Core Faculty member will collaborate with the residency program team to develop an outpatient-focused residency program and serve as a clinical leader and resident mentor. They will dedicate 40% of their time to residency training and 60% to providing full-scope primary care in the faculty/residency clinic, ensuring high-quality teaching and patient care to an underserved safety-net population.
Key Responsibilities
- • Supervise Family Medicine residents in the residency/faculty family medicine clinic, following procedures for appropriate trainee levels of supervision and requirements for residency training (Supervision Policy) to ensure patient safety and high-quality care at all times. The ratio of residents to preceptors may not exceed 4:1.
- • Respect resident work hours, paying close attention to signs of Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation in individuals.
- • Be a role model in professionalism, self–care, team-based community health care, lifelong learning, and full scope outpatient family medicine practice.
- • Evaluate Family Medicine residents, using competency-based/milestone evaluations and via direct observation and other relevant evaluation methods.
- • Supervise Family Medicine Residents QA/QI and Research activities as required/appropriate.
- • Mentor residents, advise them regarding their career and educational goals, and attending to their overall personal wellbeing.
- • Serve on relevant residency program committees as required by ACGME.
- • Participate in and coordinate regularly scheduled didactics (including, but not limited to: journal clubs, lectures, interdisciplinary conferences, workshops) as assigned by the PD.
- • Demonstrate a commitment to scholarly work, both on your own and with residents.
- • Attend at least one national meeting such as AAFP Chief Resident Workshop, STFM, or other related meetings.
- • Complete the annual ACGME annual survey.
- • Do full scope primary care clinical work in the faculty/resident clinic of an average of 40% time, exact time allocation to be determined by PD.
Benefits & Perks
- • Sign-on bonus
- • Medical, dental, vision
- • Flexible Spending Accounts
- • Dependent and domestic partner coverage
- • 403(b) retirement savings plan
- • Loan repayment programs
- • Commuter benefits
- • LifeLong qualifies for federal and state loan repayment programs (HPSA score is 20)
Core Faculty members dedicate 40% time to residency training and will provide full-scope primary care in the faculty/residency clinic 60% of the time. Core faculty will receive ongoing training on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to): (a) ACGME relevant policies and procedures, (b) evaluation and assessment of residents, (c) core competencies and milestones, (d) faculty development and (e) scholarly activity.
About Us
As a Federally Qualified Health Center in Northern California with over 45 years of dedicated service to the community, LifeLong serves over 66,000 patients in the East Bay Area's socio-economically underserved regions. We provide medical, dental, behavioral health, and school-based services at more than 15 primary care sites across Oakland, Berkeley, and West Contra Costa County. From opening a residential respite program for homeless persons discharged from the hospital to offering free COVID testing to the community, we are innovative and responsive to our times' social and medical needs. We provide an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and with which our patients can identify. To this end, we seek candidates who reflect the diversity of the East Bay communities we serve.
Benefits
Compensation: $231,152-$252,618/year, depending on years since finishing residency, sign-on bonus, and excellent benefits: medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, dependent and domestic partner coverage, 403(b) retirement savings plan, and loan repayment programs, and commuter benefits. LifeLong qualifies for federal and state loan repayment programs (HPSA score is 20). Acceptance rates may vary year to year based on funding levels and the number of applicants.
Responsibilities
- Supervise Family Medicine residents in the residency/faculty family medicine clinic, following procedures for appropriate trainee levels of supervision and requirements for residency training (Supervision Policy) to ensure patient safety and high-quality care at all times. The ratio of residents to preceptors may not exceed 4:1.
- Respect resident work hours, paying close attention to signs of Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation in individuals.
- Be a role model in professionalism, self–care, team-based community health care, lifelong learning, and full scope outpatient family medicine practice.
- Evaluate Family Medicine residents, using competency-based/milestone evaluations and via direct observation and other relevant evaluation methods.
- Supervise Family Medicine Residents QA/QI and Research activities as required/appropriate.
- Mentor residents, advise them regarding their career and educational goals, and attending to their overall personal wellbeing.
- Serve on relevant residency program committees as required by ACGME.
- Participate in and coordinate regularly scheduled didactics (including, but not limited to: journal clubs, lectures, interdisciplinary conferences, workshops) as assigned by the PD.
- Demonstrate a commitment to scholarly work, both on your own and with residents.
- Attend at least one national meeting such as AAFP Chief Resident Workshop, STFM, or other related meetings.
- Complete the annual ACGME annual survey.
- Do full scope primary care clinical work in the faculty/resident clinic of an average of 40% time, exact time allocation to be determined by PD.
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