Family Medicine Residency Core Faculty

Position Overview

Beebe Healthcare is seeking a dynamic, Board-Certified Family Medicine Residency Core Faculty Physician to join our innovative, ACGME-accredited residency program. In close collaboration with the Program Director (PD) and fellow faculty, you will directly shape, build, and grow this robust program. This role balances clinical excellence with academic leadership, serving as a resident mentor and supervisor.

Candidates must practice full-spectrum family medicine (outpatient, inpatient, pediatrics, and women's health). Family Medicine Obstetrics (FMOB) is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Graduate Medical Education & Resident Training (ACGME Compliance)

• Shape program development by creating, assessing, and innovating required and elective residency curriculum design.
• Precept resident physicians in the outpatient Family Medicine Clinic, serving as a full-spectrum clinical role model.
• Serve as an attending physician on Family Medicine hospital rounds, dedicating time to rigorous bedside teaching.
• Maintain ACGME compliance by ensuring all training standards, metrics, and Review Committee (RC) requirements are met.
• Deliver academic lectures and regularly attend scheduled residency conferences and didactics throughout the year.
• Mentor assigned residents as a faculty advisor, overseeing professional milestones, evaluations, and problem-solving.
• Complete timely evaluations of residents across both outpatient office and inpatient hospital settings.
• Drive residency recruitment by participating in interviewing, selection, and ranking prospective candidates.
• Produce scholarly activity and collaborate on research, quality improvement, or scholarly projects with residents.
• Fulfill RC requirements by maintaining a personal level of academic scholarship and professional publishing/presentation.

Clinical & Patient Care (Full-Spectrum)

• Deliver full-scope patient care across all settings, spanning newborns, pediatrics, women's health, and adult medicine.
• Manage a personal patient panel while simultaneously supervising resident physicians in outpatient and inpatient clinics.
• Perform common procedures natively falling within the clinical scope of Family Medicine.
• Lead inpatient rounds and participate in shared night call and weekend call rotations for the practice and residency.
• Engage in quality assurance (QA), peer review projects, and all institutional practice policies.

Community Leadership & Administrative Duties

• Advance community health through local engagement, outreach, and public health initiatives representing the residency.
• Serve on medical committees and represent the residency program in national, state, and local medical organizations.
• Champion institutional values by aligning all behaviors with Beebe Healthcare’s high standards of clinical excellence.

Position Qualifications

Education: MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.

Board Certification: Active Board Certification via the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) or American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians (AOBFP).

Licensure: Current (or eligible to obtain) unrestricted Medical Licensure in the State of Delaware.

Clinical Scope: Proven competence in full-spectrum care. Family Medicine Obstetrics (FMOB) experience highly preferred.

Experience: Documented clinical, educational, and administrative experience within an academic or residency setting.

About Beebe Healthcare

Our Commitment to Your Good Health: With over a century of commitment to Sussex County, Beebe Healthcare is the healthcare provider of choice to the people and families of Sussex County. Over the past 100 years, we have grown from a small community hospital to a progressive integrated healthcare system focused on bringing clinically sophisticated and innovative programs to our area and helping people in our community lead and maintain healthy lifestyles. We are committed to serving the needs of our growing community, and that includes those who travel into Sussex County to receive care from one of our renowned specialists.

Beebe is proud that our Medical Staff continues to grow because of the excellent clinical programs and opportunities, as well as the reason many of our new residents move here: Sussex County is a wonderful place to live.

Whether you need a fast visit to get better quickly, see your family doctor for a comprehensive regular checkup, have an illness or injury that just can’t wait, or any other health challenge life throws at you, Beebe Healthcare has the care you need, the expertise you want, and a location close to home. We continue to work on improving access to all kinds of care here in Sussex County. We hope the information provided here serves as a helpful orientation and quick reference to Beebe’s services.

Welcome to Beebe Healthcare – where we are solely focused on the healthcare needs of the people who live, work, visit, and seek care in Sussex County. As the only health system headquartered in and focused solely on Sussex County, it is our unique position to truly understand the programs, technologies, and barrier breakers needed to provide excellent healthcare services to those we serve because Sussex County is Our Specialty.

David A. Tam, MD, MBA, FACHE, President & CEO