Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Clinic & Residency program

Family Academic Faculty with or without OB, Wausau, WI

.6 FTE

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

• 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 of the department (continuing education, resident, student), to include didactics in areas of interest.
• Demonstrate commitment to scholarly activities and research in community-based health sciences.

Job Summary:

Aspirus Health is seeking a full-time Family Medicine Physician 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.

BENEFITS: Competitive benefits and generous compensation package including relocation assistance, student loan repayment program, annual CME allowance, and a sign-on bonus.

COMMUNITY: Wausau, WI

• 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

Medscape named Wisconsin "Best Place to Practice 2024

Wisconsin boasts the lowest malpractice filings in the country, as well as some of the highest physician salaries coupled with a low cost of living. Beckers Healthcare, 2024.