Family Medicine Faculty FT NEW Rural Family Medicine Residency Program

Fulltime Core Faculty Opportunity Family Medicine Residency Program
Keene New Hampshire

The Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Health Family Medicine Resident Program is seeking a Core Faculty member to join our growing team. We are a new communitybased 666 Family Medicine residency based in a rural regional referral center affiliated with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Our first class of 6 residents started in July 2024 and we are looking to expand our faculty team as we recruit our second class. Seeking candidates with passion and enthusiasm for practicing and teaching fullscope family medicine while helping grow a new program. Opportunities for leadership professional growth and development and a strong connection to community. The successful candidate will provide direct clinical care supervise residents in multiple clinical settings and participate in curriculum development and continuous program improvement. Osteopathic candidates are encouraged to apply with the opportunity to help build our osteopathic curriculum. The success of the residency will be grounded in Cheshires GME Vision: acaring educational community that trains graduate physicians who will serve all patients with highquality patientcentered medical care and collaborate across disciplines to meet the broader health needs of the community.

The Core Faculty member will have a significant role in the education and supervision of the residents including teaching evaluating and providing formative feedback. In addition the Core Faculty member will develop and care for a patient panel within the residency practice in our stateoftheart Family Medicine Center Family & Community Care. The practice will strive to meet community needs including caring for marginalized individuals. The program will have a special emphasis on care of the rural LGBTQ community. Faculty are eligible for academic appointment at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
This program is especially interested in candidates who will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the community through their teaching scholarship and/or service. Cheshire Medical Center Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine are committed to a richly diverse workforce.

Qualifications:

Previous teaching experience in an ACGMEaccredited program preferred
Clinically active in Family Medicine
Nursery/Newborn care required; OB/prenatal care optional
Inpatient Medicine teaching preferred
American Board Certified/Board Eligible in Family Medicine from ABFM or AOBFM
Currently hold or possess the ability to obtain medical licensure to practice medicine in New Hampshire
Currently hold or possess ability to obtain a DEA with full prescriptive authority
Unrestricted credentials in FM department
Commitment to providing teambased highquality evidencebased patient care
Commitment to training the physicians of tomorrow with interest in curriculum development and medical pedagogy
Demonstrated administrative scholarly and research activity

Responsibilities:

Deliver highquality care to the patients of our Family Medicine Center
Provide clinical supervision and mentoring of residents and medical students in the inpatient and/or outpatient setting with occasional supervisory call coverage responsibilities
Teach didactics contribute to curriculum development simulation training practice management and other innovative topics
Provide regular resident and student evaluation/feedback
Regularly participate in organized clinical discussions rounds journal clubs conferences and residency committees
Pursue faculty development designated to enhance skills at least annually
Serve as an advisor and role model of professionalism fostering ones own and resident/student wellbeing educational goal setting career planning scholarship and safe highquality patient care based on practicebased learning and improvement efforts
Pursue scholarly activities including presenting at scientific society meetings participation in national committees and/or educational organizations quality initiatives publications grants etc.
Incorporate a complementary culture of learning into the current patient and communitycentered health culture including principles of quality and equity humanism research and population health

The Community Practice Environment

Cheshire Medical Center (Cheshire) is a 169bed Level III community hospital that has served the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire for over 125 years. It is only the 14th hospital ever to be named an American Hospital Association Living the Vision awardee. Associated is a 150 physician and associate provider multispecialty community practice an affiliate of Dartmouth Health. This diverse group of professionals is committed to quality and patient safety continuous process improvement and clinical measurement. Cheshire is a nationally recognized leader in population health and patientcentered medical home. It is innovative and collaborative in its use of integrative medicine valuebased care accountablecare models and electronic medical records. It is the largest community practice in the 650 physician Dartmouth Health system which boasts Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon NH a leading academic medical center including the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

The City of Keene (population 24000 is a college town with a classic New England downtown with varied opportunities for shopping dining and an active arts community. The city has excellent public and private schools and extracurricular activities along with a variety of housing options in the city of Keene and the small towns surrounding the city. Outdoor recreation opportunities abound with mountains lakes forests and ski resorts nearby and Boston and New Hampshires Seacoast just a twohour drive away.

Contact information for cover letter and CV:
Katie Romeo

DartmouthHitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status veteran status gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by law.

American Board Certified/Truly Board Eligible in Family Medicine from ABFM or AOBFM
Must obtain and maintain a medical license in the State of New Hampshire