Family Medicine Physician - Community Care : Job Details

The Department of Family & Community Medicine at Albany Medical College is seeking a BC/BE Family Physician to join their faculty for both resident and medical student education.

The successful candidate will join a well-established community practice in beautiful upstate New York (Albany Family Medicine of Community Care Physicians) with a wide range of clinical opportunities and privileges at both the academic teaching hospital and community teaching hospitals. Current faculty clinical interests include ambulatory primary care, geriatrics, sports medicine, outpatient procedures, inpatient medicine, osteopathic manipulative medicine, newborn care, medications for opiate use disorder, gender affirming care, abortion care, women's health with or without obstetrics and point of care ultrasound. The clinical practice includes working with interdisciplinary team members including our residents, RN case managers, pharmacists, and integrated behavioral health.

Education is fundamental to the department's mission with faculty responsibilities crossing the undergraduate to graduate medical education spectrum. Our 6-6-6 residency program is ACGME accredited with osteopathic recognition. Opportunities for educational leadership in the department are available, specifically for the role of Clerkship Director for the required third year clerkship in family medicine at Albany Medical College. The Clerkship Director will be core faculty in the Albany Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in addition to the undergraduate medical education responsibilities at the title/rank of Assistant Professor or higher (rank commensurate with experience) at Albany Medical College.

The Clerkship Director will be responsible for central administrative activities and educational oversight of the four-week core family medicine clerkship required for all medical students. They will participate in teaching, mentoring, advising and supervising residents, fellows, medical students, and other learners and participate in various scholarly endeavors. Curriculum development, preceptor recruitment & retention, clinical evaluations and medial knowledge assessments are essential components of this clerkship director role. The Clerkship Director is also part of the multispecialty workgroup of clerkship directors of other specialties led by the Associate Dean of Medical Education at Albany Medical College.

The ideal candidate to join our faculty would be a compassionate family physician with a passion for medical education. Albany, New York is the capital of New York state. Albany is home to extensive recreational and cultural activities, as well as many unique restaurants and shopping. In addition, the area offers affordable housing in a diversity of safe neighborhoods with excellent public and private school options. Albany is the perfect location for easy access to the beautiful Adirondack Park region and New York City and Boston. Interested applicants should contact Annie Rutter, MD, for more information. [email protected]

Community Care Physicians offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision and life insurances, paid holidays, paid time off, retirement plan, and much more in a business casual environment!

We welcome candidates who will bring diverse intellectual, gender and ethnic perspectives to Community Care Physicians.

Community Care Physicians is an Equal Opportunity Employer.