Family Academic Faculty with or without OB, Wausau, WI

Aspirus Wausau Family medicine clinic & Residency program

Family Academic Faculty with or without OB, Wausau, WI

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.

The Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Residency Program is a 5-5-5 citation-free program.  The Program is housed at free-standing Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine Clinic, steps away from the system flagship, Aspirus Wausau Hospital, and many specialty practices.  Residents benefit from seeing a wide range of patients including rural, transgender, HIV positive, addiction medicine and pre-natal through geriatrics in a variety of patient care settings.  Graduates successfully establish practices as hospitalists, outpatient and walk-in physicians – often staying in the Aspirus system.  

In addition to providing traditional training, the Program prides itself on providing unique experiences to learners as evidenced by recently receiving an NRMP exception for an innovative curriculum allowing a Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW)-Central Wisconsin student to match early into the Program and start establishing an outpatient panel at the residency clinic as a medical student.  A rural training track, a medically assisted treatment program, and integrated behavioral health care model are also in development.  The Program also partners with MCW Psychiatry Residents to provide in-patient medicine training and recently joined a consortium of regional GME programs for Program sponsorship in 2021; the Wisconsin Northern and Central (WiNC) GME Consortium.

Aspirus Health serves communities throughout northeastern Minnesota, northern and central Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

• We operate 18 hospitals and 130 outpatient locations, and provide home health services, hospice care, and air-medical transport.
• We employ nearly 14,000 team members, including 1,300 employed physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
• We are committed to being economically, socially, and environmentally responsible.
• We are a non-profit health system based in Wausau, Wisconsin.
• We are dedicated to delivering high-quality care to rural communities.