Community and Family Medicine Faculty with Maternity Care Focus

• Community and Family Medicine Faculty with Maternity Care Focus Full time University Health Physicians, is a multi-specialty academic group practice affiliated with the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC SOM) in conjunction with its major teaching facility University Health (UH).
• UHP is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and proud of our diverse workforce.
• UH Lakewood Medical Center Many UHP physicians have teaching responsibilities for residents, fellows, and medical students.
• The UMKC SOM accepts students directly out of high school for a six-year combined baccalaureate/Doctor of Medicine program.
• The UMKC SOM Graduate Medical Education program supports over 30 residencies and fellowships.
• UH is known as “Kansas City’s Essential Hospital” and is the safety net healthcare system for Jackson County/Kansas City, MO.
• UH is an academic medical center, serving as the primary teaching institution for the UMKC Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Pharmacy.
• A 547-bed, not-for-profit health system, UH delivers the highest-quality medical care for our patients, with compassion, empathy, and unparalleled dedication to service.
• During the 2020 pandemic, UH has been recognized as a regional leader in COVID care and testing.

Job Description

WHO IS University Health Physicians University Health Physicians (UHP) is the physician group practice for the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC) in conjunction with its major teaching facility. UMKC supports several residencies and the candidate will have teaching responsibilities for Family Medicine obstetrics fellows, Family Medicine residents, and medical students. UHP is also the primary physician group for Truman Medical Centers Lakewood/University Health in Kansas City, MO. RESPONSIBILITIES The Department of Community and Family Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, University Health and University Health Physicians seeks a full-time board-certified family physician with advanced surgical obstetric skills, including C-sections, to join our academic program located in a rapidly growing area of Kansas City. Maternity Care & Women’s Health are vital components of Family Medicine, and a strong component of our residency program. Additionally, the UMKC/UH Family Medicine Advanced Maternity Care Fellowship based at University Health Lakewood Medical Center exists to provide family medicine residency graduates who have a high degree of interest and experience in maternity care/women’s health opportunity to continue their training in Family Medicine Surgical Obstetrics/Maternity Care. This faculty position provides an opportunity to become a member of a dynamic, expanding academic program and allows for faculty development. The faculty will work directly supervising residents and fellows on Labor and Delivery and in clinic as well as providing family medicine for their own panel of patients. Academic appointment and salary commensurate with background. DEPARTMENT The Department of Community & Family Medicine is proud of its diverse composition and is an equal opportunity employer. Since its inception in 1972, University Health Physicians is organized for the following medical, charitable, scientific and educational purposes: · To provide for the medically indigent and other individuals who are in need of health care; · To promote, conduct and administer programs in mental health, maternal and infant care, family planning, communicable disease control, community health, accident prevention, rehabilitation, home care and other areas affecting health; · To teach, instruct, promote and encourage disciplines involving any of the above by use of training, research and educational programs, courses of instruction and any other means; · To employ, maintain and retain physicians, surgeons, dentists, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and other educators and support personnel as staff for hospitals and other healthcare facilities, as faculty for medical and dental schools and for related activities; and · To do and perform any other activity which promotes physical and mental health and to support and conduct any and all activities connected with the operation of hospitals, other healthcare facilities, and educational institutions and any charitable, scientific or educational activities in any manner related thereto.