ECU FM Physician Rural Residency - ECU Health

ECU Health Physicians and East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are seeking a board-eligible/board-certified Family Medicine physician to join the department in a fixed term, or tenure track, academic position.

Our nationally recognized unopposed rural residency program offers the best of both worlds to residents and faculty alike. Accredited in 2021, this program is comprised of three rural sites with 27 resident positions. This 1-2 rural program has partnered with multiple regional FQHC’s to create unique community-based training opportunities in a public university-affiliated program. We are seeking candidates with passion and enthusiasm for teaching full-scope family medicine in both urban and rural environments. There are opportunities for leadership and professional growth/development.

Opportunity Highlights include:

· Employment by ECU Health Physicians-Academic Employment Model

· Hospital Privileges at ECU Health Medical Center, a 974-academic medical center

· Growing 9-hospital physician led healthcare system

· Growing division inclusive of 44 physicians and 5 advanced practice providers

· Inpatient and outpatient clinical responsibilities

· Opportunity to train rural residency program residents in both urban and rural environments

· Monday – Friday work week

· 1-2days per week would be spent at one of 3 rural sites located in Ahoskie, NC; Duplin, NC; and Roanoke Rapids, NC

· Work at rural sites involves precepting in the rural continuity clinic and didactic/administrative roles

· Remaining time will consist of patient care activities which may include direct patient care to an assigned panel of patients and patients of other providers, precepting residents, or working in the hospital on the Family Medicine Service

· Hospital patient care will include bedside teaching of residents, medical and PA students

· Medical Student teaching responsibilities may include didactic teaching one or two afternoons per week in the Foundations of Doctoring or other courses

· Strong emphasis on teaching, mentoring, advising, supervision of residents, medical students, and other learners

· Opportunities to develop administrative and scholarship skills

· Clinical practice experience preferred

· Required: ACLS & BCLS certifications

· Competitive Compensation and Comprehensive Benefits to include: Relocation assistance, vacation & sick PTO, CME days & reimbursement, malpractice (with tail), retirement benefits, state health plan health insurance, employer paid dependent health insurance, medical and dental reimbursements, employer paid AD&D, disability, and life insurance

· Additional supplemental insurance benefits options- Accident, AD&D, Cancer, Critical Illness, Dental, FSA for Healthcare and Dependent Care Expenses, Life, and Vision

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Widely recognized as the thriving cultural, educational, economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina, Greenville is the 10^th largest city in the state with a metropolitan population of nearly 100,000. The Dickinson Avenue Arts District offers a vibrant arts, music, culinary and festival scene in the Uptown Greenville district. Greenville is also home to East Carolina University, the Brody School of Medicine, and Pitt Community College. Excellent affordability, convenient location and natural resources combined with all of the amenities of a metropolitan university town, Greenville is the perfect place to live, work and play!

• Located inland off of the North Carolina coast, Greenville is 45 miles east of interstate 95, just over an hour to Raleigh, a little over an hour to the pristine beaches of the Crystal Coast of NC
• Home to East Carolina University (ECU), a vibrant university with an annual enrollment of more than 24,000 students
• Numerous waterways and the Greenville Greenway System are perfect for boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and camping
• Mild climate perfect for year-round outdoor activities
• Cost of living below the national average, diverse and affordable housing and excellent educational opportunities, both public and private
• Investment of more than $500 million in downtown Greenville’s revitalization bringing new restaurants, shops, businesses, and residents to the area

It is the goal of ECU Health and its entities to employ the most qualified individual who best matches the requirements for the vacant position. Offers of employment are subject to successful completion of all pre-employment screenings. We value diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Decisions of employment are made based on business needs, job requirements and applicant’s qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information and testing, family and medical leave, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other status protected by law.