The Department of Primary Care & Rural Medicine in the College of Medicine at Texas A&M Univeristy invites applications for one (1) full-time Academic Professional Track (non-tenure) position with an 11-month academic appointment beginning as soon as possible in the spring of 2025 to serve as the founding members of a newly developed Internal Medicine Residency Program within the Shannon Health System in San Angelo, TX. Applicants will be considered for the faculty rank of Clinical Assistant, Associate or full Professor depending on qualifications. We desire individuals who subscribes to and supports our mutual commitment to enhance the health and wellbeing of Texans, particularly those in San Angelo and the Concho Valley. Successful applicants will bring an expert level of educational and clinical leadership to the position. Ideal candidates must bring a high level of professionalism, systems-based thinking, organization, and managerial skill to the position. As a leader of healthcare professionals at all stages of their career, the optimal candidate will be flexible and adaptive to the ever-changing needs of his/her constituents.
Faculty of the Shannon Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency will support program leadership in developing, implementing, and assessing curriculum, mentoring residents, and assessing residents' progress towards achievement of competence in and the independent practice of internal medicine. Core facutly members should possess a broad knowledge of the speciality and have significant involvement in the program's educational, clinical, and scholarly components. Core faculty members provide clinical teaching and supervision of residents and also participate in non-clinical activities related to resident education and program administration. Examples of these non-clinical activities include, but are not limited to, interviewing and selecting resident applicants, providing didactic instruction, mentoring residents, conducting simulation exercises, and participating on the program's Clinical Competency Committee, Program Evaluation Committee, and other GME and health system committees.
Qualified candidates must be a role model for professionalism. He/She will deliver the program's curriculum and care for its patients in a fashion consistent with the needs of the San Angelo community and the mission and values of Shannon Medical Center and Texas A&M University. Core faculty will ensure the creation and sustainment of a high-quality clinical learning environment.
The faculty member's primary academic responsibility will be the education and teaching of internal medicine residents and medical students. As an ABIM/ABOIM certified core faculty member of an internal medicine residency, the incumbent will be required to educate students and residents within both bedside and didactic classroom settings.
The faculty member's secondary academic responsibility will be in the area of service, serving as a role model for future physicians while maintaining an active inpatient and/or outpatient clinical practice.
Lastly, faculty will be required to produce two scholarly projects on average over five years.
Together, Texas A&M University, the College of Medicine and the Shannon Health System are working to improve healthcare through transformative education, innovative research, and team-based care delivery.