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School Of Medicine

Family Medicine

This position will be based at VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, Virginia.

VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital is a small, rural community hospital that provides a wide range of subspecialty care to a large region. It hosts the Family Medicine Residency Clinic attached to the hospital and provides newborn nursery and inpatient pediatrics coverage. Current inpatient volumes are approximately 300 deliveries and 50 pediatric admissions per calendar year. July 1, 2025, CMH welcomed its first class of family medicine residents, whose first year of training is at the main campus in Richmond and subsequent years in South Hill.

We have four affiliated family medicine residency programs around Virginia in addition to our new VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency, which will graduate its first class in 2027.

As the Program Director and Core Faculty, you will work with the Associate Program Director to support the needs of our residents and core faculty. You will spend a majority of your time on precepting, direct resident and medical student education in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, and educational administration. The remaining time will be devoted to your own direct clinical practice. This position will be primarily based at VCU’s Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, VA; while the Associate Program Director is located primarily on the VCU campus of VCU Health in Richmond, VA.

• Demonstrate dedication to Family Medicine Education
• Monitor faculty appointments, assignments, outcomes, and conduct of educational activities
• Supervise, direct, evaluate, and administer the Family Medicine Education Program
• Provide direction and leadership to obtain and/or maintain the Family Medicine Residency Program with Full Residency Review Committee Accreditation
• Conduct ongoing review of the residency program as required by RRC and ACGME
• Collaborate with the Department Chair and other Residency Leadership in recruiting and making recommendations for improvement in the educational programs within the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and within the entire VCU Health systems
• Ensure services are performed in accordance with and sufficient for compliance with the requirements of all accrediting bodies such as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the System’s liability carrier
• Engage in continual improvement of the Family Medicine Residency Program
• Serve as a member of VCU Health’s Graduate Medical Education Council
• Perform duties as appropriate and necessary to the position and operation of VCU Health Systems and the Family Medicine Residency Program
• Recruit, retain, and promote high caliber, diverse residents who exhibit interest and commitment to rural healthcare, health equity, excellence in patient care and medical education, high ethics, and a commitment to a high order of professionalism
• Participate in the budgeting process for the residency program
• Review clinical teaching and scholarship of each faculty member individually and annually

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to obtain license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Completed an accredited residency program in Family Medicine
• Certified and recertified by the American Board of Family Medicine
• Five or more years of Family Medicine Practice
• Three to five years of experience as faculty in a Family Medicine Residency Training Program
• Experience providing direct patient care to underserved populations across multiple settings
• Willing and able to participate in neonatal resuscitation, newborn nursery, and to admit and care for pediatric inpatients, shared call for a low volume service; proctored onboarding to the inpatient setting provided
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications

• Past experience in providing direct patient care and/or residency training in rural settings
• Direct experience in the medical education of a varied group of learners such as medical students, interprofessional learners, etc.
• Recent scholarly activity: peer reviewed funding, publication of original research or review articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in textbooks, publication or presentation of clinical series or case reports at scientific society meetings, or participation in national committees or educational organizations
• Confidence and willingness to be a faculty lead in one or more of the following:
  • Care of pregnant women including antenatal, labor and delivery including operative management, and postpartum care
  • Care of neonates and children in the inpatient setting
  • Substance abuse treatment to include medication assisted therapy
  • Primary care Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and/or specialized procedural training in emergency, inpatient and outpatient settings

Commensurate with experience

Exempt

No

Open

Open

12 months

Ashley Krauss
ashley.krauss@vcuhealth.org