Description

This position will be based at VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill, Virginia.

VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital is a small, rural community hospital that provides a wide range of subspecialty care to a large region. In 2017, VCU Health System built a beautiful, brand-new hospital that is both aesthetically and clinically spectacular. The family medicine residency clinic is attached to the hospital. Our department provides newborn nursery and inpatient pediatrics coverage. Current inpatient volumes are approximately 300 deliveries and 50 pediatrics admissions per calendar year. High acuity cases are transferred to a higher level of care. July 1, 2025, CMH welcomed its first class of family medicine residents. The residents spend their first year of training at our main campus in Richmond, approximately 75 miles to our north, and spend their second and third years in South Hill.

Mission, History & Programs of the Department

Founded in 1970, the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at VCU has a long and proud history of training medical students and resident physicians. Our department houses our family medicine medical student education programs, including a highly rated clerkship and two longitudinal, four-year track programs. Our department is one of the top ten in the nation for family medicine research.

We have four affiliated family medicine residency programs at various locations around the Commonwealth of Virginia in addition to our new VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency, which will graduate its first class in 2027.

Chief Purpose of this position

This position will work at the Community Memorial Health Family Medicine Residency
Clinic in South Hill, Virginia, serving as a primary care physician and Regional Medical Director. The Regional Medical Director will be the lead physician responsible for collaborating with nursing and administrative leadership to promote quality, safe, efficient, effective, patient and provider centered services delivered at all VCU Health Family Medicine Facilities in Southside Virginia. Currently we have locations in Bracey, Clarksville, and South Hill. This is a new role created to support expansion of family medicine services in the region.

Position Responsibilities:
Clinical (80%)
Responsible for maintaining a practice/panel at the Family Care Center Family Medicine Residency Clinic
Precepting Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students
Perform administrative duties as are appropriate and necessary to support operations of the VCU Health Systems including but not limited to completing patient medical records, student evaluations and other required documentation
Maintain clinical competency in Family Medicine and Newborn care
Serve on various medical staff committees
Participate in activities, which demonstrate professional commitment to position and to VCU Health Systems
Administrative (20%)
The Regional Medical Director will be the lead physician responsible for collaborating with nursing and administrative leadership to promote quality, safe, efficient, effective, patient and provider centered services delivered by VCU Health in Southside Virginia.

Required Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Completion of an accredited residency program in Family Medicine
• Board Certified and recertified if applicable by the American Board of Family Medicine
• Experience in providing direct patient care to underserved populations across multiple settings
• Willing and able to care for patients in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. This position will include light newborn nursery and inpatient pediatrics call (facility currently has approx. 300 deliveries/year and less than 50 pediatrics admissions/year, high acuity neonatal/pediatrics are transferred to higher level of care). Adult inpatient services are optional for this position. We incorporate proctoring as part of our onboarding process, so current inpatient privileges are not required.
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in providing direct patient care and/or residency training in rural settings
• Direct experience in the medical education of learners such as residents, medical students, inter-professional learners
• Confidence and willingness to be a faculty lead in one or more of the following:
• Care of pregnant women including antenatal, labor and delivery including operative management, and postpartum care
• Care of adults in the inpatient setting
• Care of children in the inpatient setting
• Mental Health treatment in the primary care setting
• Substance abuse treatment to include medically assisted therapy
• Primary care Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) and/or specialized procedural training in emergency, inpatient and outpatient settings
• Leadership experience, preferably of a multi-site primary care group.