Family Medicine Faculty - Physician - Oceanside, NY

Family Medicine Faculty Physician

Mount Sinai South Nassau seeks a Family Medicine Faculty Physician to join its growing department. Recognized for administering personalized comprehensive patient care, innovative educational opportunities for students and residents, and a developing research environment, our goal is to develop long-term healing relationships with patients. The physician will be involved in direct patient care, following a small panel of patients in the outpatient setting of a full spectrum Family Medicine office. The faculty physician will serve as a preceptor to residents in the Family Medicine Center, provide inpatient pediatric and newborn care, and will be provided with time for administrative responsibilities which allow for teaching and scholarly activities. Care is provided to patients of all ages, including prenatal care. Intrapartum care and deliveries are not required but can be obtained if desired.

The ideal candidate is board-certified in Family Medicine with a passion for teaching and striving to promote the values of Family Medicine and the mission of our ACGME accredited residency program. The physician will participate in faculty development, curricular development and implementation, disseminate scholarly activity, and serve as a role model for our residents. The program promotes residency and faculty well-being, as well as patient safety and continual improvement processes. Regular faculty evaluations help with formative and summative evaluations of the resident, and this faculty person will provide this, as well as serve on the clinical competency committee as well as the program evaluation committee. The faculty person may be responsible for the department Performance Improvement (PI) activities, so an interest or background in PI is preferred.

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (South Nassau) Family Medicine Residency Program has been fully accredited by the ACGME for more than 40 years. We have produced hundreds of board-certified Family Physicians and trained thousands of medical students. Our faculty continue to serve in leadership roles throughout NY state and regularly present regionally and nationally. As a faculty member who will receive an appointment to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), the physician will have access to a host of opportunities provided by the one of the best medical schools in the nation and one of the best hospitals in the world. This includes faculty development, leadership skills training, access to library services, access to wellness programs, free CME, and more.

Mount Sinai South Nassau (MSSN) is an award-winning, acute care, not-for-profit teaching hospital located in Oceanside, New York. Our dedicated staff serves the entire South Shore of Long Island, from the Rockaways in Queens to the Massapequas and beyond. And we offer quality, compassionate care on our main campus in Oceanside, plus nine other satellite facilities in the region. Mount Sinai South Nassau, formerly known as South Nassau Communities Hospital before becoming part of the Mount Sinai Health Network, is one of the region's largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,500 employees. Mount Sinai South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, as well as being a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program. The hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission's gold seal of approval for disease-specific care for heart failure, primary stroke, hip replacement, knee replacement, wound care, bariatric surgery, and end-stage renal disease, and recently was re-accredited as one of first programs in the US by the Infectious Diseases Society of America as a Center of Excellence for Antimicrobial Stewardship.

Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding nursing care, South Nassau also offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies, and operates the only Trauma Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons. Mount Sinai South Nassau has received numerous accolades for its high-quality care, and many people refer to the hospital as the best-kept secret on Long Island, though we rank among the best for the health care.