Job Description

• Family Physicians Residency is seeking an ABFM or AOBFP certified family medicine physician with experience in academic medicine to serve as our new program director.
• We are an 8-8-8 rurally oriented and full spectrum university-affiliated program located in Central Pennsylvania with an associated transitional year residency and a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship.
• Our program has a strong history of filling our resident classes with excellent residents who excel on boards with successful completion of our program. Many of our graduates choose to remain in our area to provide for our community.
• We also have numerous seasoned and loyal faculty attending physicians who plan to stay until retirement.
• As our current program director plans to step down and transition towards retirement, you would be provided with the unique opportunity to take over while having the support and guidance from the prior director throughout a transition period.
• Additionally, you would receive strong support from the well-versed associate program director and the program directors for the transitional year, osteopathic recognition, and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship.
• Both the family medicine residency and the transitional year residency have osteopathic recognition.
• As part of the family medicine residency, the newly appointed program director will progressively start to oversee the main family medicine office in Altoona, the rural office in Williamsburg, PA, the Womens Health and Wellness Center, and the Pregnancy Care Center.
• They will also work with the transitional year residency and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program directors in the oversight of those programs.