Faculty Physician - Family Medicine - Center at Cullowhee, NC

Join MAHEC’s Family Medicine team at our multidisciplinary clinic in beautiful Cullowhee, NC, where you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact through patient care, teaching, and mentorship, and increasing accessibility to rural healthcare. This Faculty Physician role combines a robust outpatient practice and contributes to shaping the next generation of family physicians through resident and student education. Ideal candidates are passionate about evidence-based medicine, collaborative team-based care, and academic medicine, with a desire to contribute to scholarship, community health, and the advancement of Family Medicine across Western North Carolina.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Faculty Practice Physician Faculty- will provide excellent, evidence-based, efficient patient care services, as well as resident and student teaching, mentoring, effective supervision.  This role is within the department of Family Medicine to help meet the clinical needs of the department. 

• Directly care for ambulatory patients in any of the FM Practice sites (Biltmore, Enka-Candler, New bridge, Cane Creek) 

• Teach and mentor learners in evidenced-based care  

• Participate in and foster scholarship in the ambulatory setting 

• Provide services in the inpatient setting at Mission Hospital 

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Clinical

• Provide direct clinical care to Family Medicine patients for six-seven ½ days weekly, to include all patients in the ambulatory setting.  

• Provide direct clinical care and oversight of resident teams in the inpatient setting at Mission hospital – 5-10 weeks per year. 

• Comply in a timely manner with all institutional policies for professional work, including credentialing, documentation, and billing. 

• Work effectively with other members of the extended inter-professional team. 

• Additional clinical duties as necessary for emergent situations or as arranged otherwise with the employee. 

Teaching

• Serve as a faculty advisor and mentor for residents. 

• Promote and participate in education programs of the department (continuing education, resident, student), to include didactics in areas of interest in Internal Medicine 

• Supervise and teach learners in both the ambulatory and inpatient environment. 

• Research

• Demonstrate commitment to community-based health sciences and research. 

• Pursue scholarly activity. 

This role description is a general description of the essential job functions.  It is not intended to describe all the duties the Family Practice Physician Faculty may perform. 

KEY COMPETENCIES: 

• Communication Skills  

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families. 

• Decision Making 

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time. 

• HealthCare Knowledge 

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate.  This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate. 

• Interpersonal Skills  

Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others. 

• Organizational Values 

Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need. 

• Problem Solving  

Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change. 

SPECIFIED SKILLS 

• COMPUTER 

• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database applications required. 

• Experience using Electronic Medical Records. 

• FOREIGN LANGUAGE 

• Spanish speaking skills preferred. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

• Light - Moderate energy level: Lift and carry 25 - 35 lbs, Push/Pull 50 - 100 lbs (empty bed, stretcher, etc.). 

• Occasional (0 - 33% of Workday).  

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:  

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Completion of a Family Medicine Residency Program.   

• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Teaching experience preferred. 

REQUIRED LICENSES:  

• Licensure to practice medicine in North Carolina. 

• Certification by the American Board of Family Physicians 

• Appointment in good standing to the medical staff of Mission Health System. 

SCHEDULE:

Regular attendance on-site is an essential function of this position. Typical business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (or flexed to best meet the needs of the clients and/or the Division); 40 hours per workweek; weekend, holiday, or evening coverage is occasionally required. Work hours will need to be flexible in order to respond to special work assignments, or evening activities, as requested by the team leader.