Jefferson BEACON (Bringing Equity and Care to Our Neighborhoods) Director, Family & Community Medicine

The Department of Family & Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University is seeking a Director of the Jefferson BEACON program, which is a co-curricular program will train students as physician leaders with the necessary skills to promote health equity and improve the health of disadvantaged urban communities in Philadelphia. The Director of this program will lead the development of the curriculum, provide mentorship, oversee evaluation and assessment, communicate and interface with community partners. The Department has a long-standing commitment to education, as evidenced by a nationally recognized university-based residency as well as several outstanding fellowship programs. Central to our departmental mission is training the next generation of physicians how to improve the health care of our patients, families, and communities, with a particular emphasis on health equity and care for the underserved. We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated excellence in the skills of teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and assessment, mentorship, and has expertise in public health and community medicine. We strongly encourage applicants of diverse backgrounds to apply.

The individual will be expected to develop a primary care clinical practice, with optional rotation through the family medicine hospital service.

Roles and responsibilities:

Jefferson BEACON Director

• Perform inventory of MS1 curriculum and meetings with course directors for which topics are addressed
• Identify and collaborate with other specialty colleagues on shared resources
• Design curriculum for monthly sessions (didactics, interdisciplinary case discussions, journal clubs, reflection sessions)
• Recruit speakers from Jefferson and the community who care for Philadelphia communities
• Deliver/lead monthly sessions
• Advise students on selection of articles for journal club and provide guidance for the discussion
• Develop, implement, evaluate curriculum for 2 week leadership seminar in 4th year curriculum
• Recruit, interview, and select student applicants
• Recruit faculty mentors among Jefferson faculty and in the community and orient to program
• Identify community sites for students to participate in their longitudinal community experience and volunteer on intermittent basis
• Provide faculty development to mentors
• Advise and mentor students
• Design and conduct evaluation of the program (surveys, focus groups)

• Board certified/board eligible individual with a medical degree (MD or DO) in Family Medicine.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in public health and community medicine through work experience.

Interested candidates may submit a cover letter and CV for consideration to Chandler Clemens at [Register to View]

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson’s mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.