Assistant​/Associate Professor of Family Medicine - Program Director-Family Medicine Residency

Serves the Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (SHSU- COM) in the Department of Primary Care and Clinical Medicine.

The University is seeking qualified candidates to join SHSU-COM as the Program Director of its Family Medicine Residency. The position reports to the Designated Institutional Official. The University is focused on improving the physician workforce in primary care and other specialties identified as a physician shortage in the State of Texas and has developed an integrated curriculum merging basic science instruction with clinical learning and an osteopathic emphasis.

The Family Medicine Program Director will be responsible for the administration and operation of the family medicine residency program. This individual will be responsible for teaching; scholarly activity; resident recruitment, selection, promotion, disciplinary action; supervision and evaluation of residents; faculty development; and other required activities. Serve on various committees within the residency and sponsoring institution including but not limited to the Residency Advisory Committee, Program Evaluation Committee, Clinical Competency Committee, and Graduate Medical Education Committee.

The Program will actively supervise, precept and teach residents, medical students and other learners in the outpatient clinic and other settings.

Further, the Program Director will ensure that accreditation standards are maintained; prepare and maintain the educational goals and curriculum of the program; prepare and deliver lectures; prepare statistical and narrative descriptions of the program for accreditation. Maintain interdisciplinary team relationships with specialties relevant to family medicine to ensure continued quality patient care and resident education; develop formal affiliation agreements with participating sites;.

Maintain a continuity outpatient practice; prepare evaluations for teaching staff, residents and other medical learners and prepare and implement required program policies.