Internal Medicine Residency Faculty

Mercy Health is seeking a dedicated and dynamic Internal Medicine Faculty member to join our team. This position offers a unique blend of clinical education and patient care responsibilities, focusing primarily on precepting residents and managing a limited private patient panel. The role involves approximately 80% precepting and 20% direct patient care, with no call coverage required at this time.

Key Responsibilities:

Clinical Education and Precepting (80%):

• Resident Supervision: Mentor and supervise Internal Medicine residents in the outpatient clinic, providing guidance and support during patient encounters.
• Teaching and Evaluation: Deliver high-quality teaching during patient interactions, conduct comprehensive evaluations of residents, and contribute to curriculum development.
• Lectures and Mentoring: Act as core faculty by providing lectures, mentoring residents, and evaluating medical students.
• Curriculum Development: Actively participate in the development and enhancement of the residency curriculum.

Patient Care (20%):

• Private Patient Panel: Manage a small panel of private patients, ensuring high standards of care and maintaining accurate and timely medical records.
• Clinical Metrics: Ensure key performance metrics (e.g., PC6, access, quality) are met while delivering exceptional patient care.
• Schedule Flexibility: Typically see private patients for approximately 2 half days per week. Schedule may vary based on residency precepting needs.

Administrative Duties:

• Faculty and Operational Meetings: Attend faculty and provider operational council meetings.
• Faculty Development: Participate in ongoing faculty development activities.
• Recruitment and Policy: Assist with recruitment efforts and contribute to the development of clinical policies and procedures.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Residency Committees: Participate in residency-required committees, lectures, and recruitment efforts.
• Back-Up Call: While residents cover primary call duties, occasional backup call coverage may be required.

Qualifications:

• Education: Board-certified in Internal Medicine.
• Experience: Prior experience in academic medicine and residency training is preferred.
• Skills: Strong mentoring and teaching abilities, excellent clinical skills, and the ability to balance educational and patient care responsibilities.

Additional Information:

• On-site pharmacy and lab.
• Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) available a few days a week.
• Opportunities for virtual and eVisits are available at the provider's discretion.
• Day to day: Combination of precepting residents, seeing private patients, and participating in didactic sessions.

This is a 3-year residency with continued accreditation by the ACGME. We are currently approved to accept 12 residents per year. Our hospital has a long history of post-graduate medical education for physicians, and we started our Internal Medicine residency program in 2006. Our Internal Medicine residency program emphasizes comprehensive training in ambulatory and inpatient general Internal Medicine as well as its sub-specialties. Upon completion, residents will have the opportunity to work in areas of academic or community-based Internal Medicine practice or pursue training in various medicine sub-specialties. 

Many of our faculty are actively involved in cutting-edge research in an array of medical disciplines. Our major research areas include infectious disease, respiratory disease and sleep medicine.

Our Services

Mercy is a recognized leader in providing quality, cost-effective healthcare and is a regional leader in collaboration with other community organizations to meet community needs. Mercy is a preferred provider in the majority of health insurance plans, we actively work to control healthcare costs through managed care contracts and insurance initiatives. Mercy encompasses eight hospitals and offers a medical staff of over 1,500 members to support the comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. Mercy provides comprehensive primary and critical care services:

• Highest Designations to treat obstetrical, newborn and trauma patients
• Comprehensive Women's Services
• Nationally recognized Heart Center
• Nationally recognized Pediatric Diabetes Program
• Comprehensive Cancer Centers
• The region's first dedicated hospital-based Palliative Care Unit
• Complete neuroscience and neurological services for adults and children
• Comprehensive Critical Care Transportation system that includes five air ambulances (Life Flight) and seven mobile intensive care units
• Premier provider of Medical Education Programs including allopathic and osteopathic residencies and Mercy College
• Highly acclaimed Occupational Health Services
• Home Care services
• Outpatient laboratory, Radiology and Surgical Services
• Mercy Centers for Health Promotion
• Sleep Disorder Centers
• Comprehensive, interdisciplinary Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit
• Extensive array of Community Health Programs

A culturally prosperous city, Toledo is home to a nationally renowned art museum and zoo, the Toledo Symphony, as well as the newly renovated Valentine Theater.  The community is home to the Toledo Mud Hens, the Triple A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers.  The Mud Hens play in their downtown stadium, Fifth Third Field, which was named as one of the top minor league baseball stadiums in the country.  Toledo also offers an ECHL hockey team, NCAA sports at the University of Toledo, and an annual LPGA golf tournament. Nature and outdoors lovers enjoy the close proximity to Lake Erie.  Outstanding schools coupled with affordable housing give northwest Ohio families a great lifestyle.  Toledo boasts of having 33 colleges and universities within a 60-mile radius, including a medical college within the metro area.  Additionally, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus and Detroit are all within a short driving distance. 

Mercy Health is the largest health system in Ohio and the state’s fourth-largest employer, with more than 33,500 employees serving communities throughout Ohio and in Kentucky. Mercy Health provided care for patients more than 6.8 million times in 2016. The system includes assets of $6.8 billion and more than 500 care sites, including 23 hospitals, eight senior living communities, five hospice programs and seven home health agencies. Its clinically integrated network, Mercy Health Select, coordinates more effective and efficient care for more than 200,000 patients, saving money for taxpayers through the Medicare Shared Savings program. In keeping with its Mission to improve the health of its communities, Mercy Health provides more than $1 million per day in community benefit services. For more information, visit www.mercy.com or connect with Mercy Health on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and Twitter (@LivingMercyHlth).

Mercy Health — St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo’s first hospital, offers you the high-quality health care you need and the compassion you deserve. Our expert doctors, nurses and caregivers are committed to helping you be well in mind, body and spirit.

Through advanced treatments and cutting-edge technology, we’ve been making lives better and health care easier for the Toledo area since 1885.

Awards and Recognition

• Received the highest level of accreditation in stroke care with the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Center accreditation.
• Diabetes Education self-management program receives American Diabetes Association recognition for meeting national standards for diabetes education programs.
• Re-certified at the highest level of trauma care as a level 1 trauma care center and Mercy Health – Children’s Hospital as a level 2 by the Committee of Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
• Weight Management Solutions and St. Vincent Medical Center received a designation by the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• The Women’s Health Physicians and Midwives were recognized as a best practice by the American College of Nurse-Midwives achieving the “Triple Aim” ranking recognizing improvements in the patient experience and health while reducing patient cost.
• Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center received accreditation for their pediatric residency program.