Aspirus Family Medicine Residency
Full or part time Faculty Position
Wausau, Wisconsin
Our Mission:
• While working clinically, our faculty serve as model family doctors demonstrating productive, high-value care that is an example to the residents and students.
• While teaching, our faculty blend their clinical experience and up-to-date knowledge
of evidence and guidelines to help residents grow their knowledge and skill.
• Faculty demonstrate and teach with a growth mindset and a can-do attitude to help our residents learn to manage a broad range of problems and procedures to stay at the top of a family practitioner's skill set.
Job Summary:
Aspirus Health is seeking full-time or part time Family Medicine Physicians with or without OB experience to join the Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Residency Program (AWFM).
AWFM is a community-based family medicine program with 15 family medicine residents aiming to provide excellent, evidence-based, full-scope family medicine to a growing, vibrant small to mid-size midwestern community with a diverse patient care population. Faculty will be asked to provide broad-scope medical and procedural care with low-risk maternity care and obstetrics. Faculty will also have educational opportunities including resident and student teaching, mentoring, and promoting clinical-based research and scholarly activities.
Specific Responsibilities:
Clinical
• Faculty members are a foundational element of graduate medical education and provide an important bridge allowing residents to grow and become practice-ready, ensuring that patients receive the highest quality of care.
• Work effectively and proficiently with other members of the extended inter-professional team.
• Core faculty devote up to 40 percent of their time to patient care without residents.
• Call responsibilities approximately 1:20 night/weekend call for inpatient OB (if applicable), pediatric, and newborn call.
• No adult inpatient medicine call required.
Teaching (these guidelines are for 1.0 faculty. Some elements are subject to change for faculty with a lower FTE. .6 is the lowest allowable FTE for faculty)
• Core faculty devote at least 60 percent of their time (at least 24 hours per week, or 1200 hours per year) to the program, exclusive of patient care without residents.
• The majority of this professional effort is devoted to teaching, administration, scholarly activity, and supervising resident patient care within the program.
• Serve as a faculty advisor and mentor for residents.
• Promote and participate in educational programs (continuing education, resident, student), to include didactics in areas of interest.
• Demonstrate commitment to scholarly activities and research in community-based health sciences.
Benefits:
Competitive benefits and generous compensation package including relocation assistance, student loan repayment program, annual CME allowance, and a sign-on bonus.
Community:
• Variety of seasonal activities throughout the year, including snowmobiling, skiing, fishing, hiking, kayaking, festivals, farmer’s markets, theater, and a thriving art scene
• Lively, farm-to-table, community-sourced dining scene
• A normal commute is 10-15 minutes from any part of town
• High-performing school districts in the area with over 60 schools, public and private, to choose from.
• Close proximity to Central Wisconsin Airport with direct flights to O'Hare International Airport, Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport, and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport... More >><< Less