Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellow - Walton, Bronx

Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellow

The Institute for Family Health offers a one-year fellowship to develop a diverse community of family medicine leaders who will provide, teach, and advocate for access to equitable and person-centered full-spectrum reproductive health care within primary care. The fellowship trains family medicine physicians at the Institute’s federally qualified health center sites that also serve as residency training sites, as well as at training partner sites.  The fellowship is built upon the following pillars that aim for graduates to achieve and work toward:

· Clinical Care and Service Implementation

· Teaching

· Advocacy and Leadership

· Purposeful Inclusion

· Community and Mentorship

In addition to the fellowship activities listed below, the fellows will serve as primary care providers for Institute patients for four clinical sessions per week and one precepting session, as assigned by the program director.  In this context, fellows will:

· Provide patient care at an Institute health center, seeing continuity care patients or precepting residents.

· Ensure the care of patients meets the organization’s productivity goals, quality performance measures, regulatory compliance, training needs, and research initiatives.

· Be scheduled for one evening session weekly, unless otherwise approved by supervisor.

Fellowship activities include:

· Spending one year as a “trainer in training,” learning to perform full spectrum reproductive health care and related procedures (e.g., IUD and implant insertions, first-trimester sonography, endometrial biopsy, and manual vacuum aspiration of the uterus) and learning to teach these procedures to others.

· Spending 18 to 30 days at a high volume full-spectrum reproductive health care site, getting uterine aspiration training and becoming a trainer. This training may require working on Saturdays.

· Developing teaching and leadership skills by precepting residents during their continuity and procedure clinic sessions, giving presentations during residency didactic sessions, providing reproductive health education and training to medical students and other learners, facilitating continuing education workshops, and writing patient education/clinical resources.

· Working on longitudinal projects, in collaboration with residents and faculty, with a goal of preparing presentations for academic meetings and/or publications for family medicine journals.

· Participating in advocacy projects that promote access to reproductive health care in family medicine, with guidance from the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP). Fellows will work with Medical Students for Choice (MS4C), helping them build their local chapters and engaging residents in doing projects with the medical students. If interested and accepted, fellows can also participate in the Physicians for Reproductive Health’s Leadership Training Academy, to gain additional advocacy and media training, which can in turn be useful to advocate for primary care, teaching health centers, and federally qualified health centers.

· As available, fellows will participate in the LARC training program at the Institute that is operated in collaboration with RHAP. The fellows will help train clinicians from local primary care centers in order to expand access LARC. Fellows have the option to rotate at a free clinic that is run in collaboration with Montefiore medical students, fellowship faculty, and the Institute’s free clinic medical advisors. The fellows will participate in the “reproductive health team” that provides full spectrum reproductive health care to uninsured individuals.

· The schedule for the activities described above will be determined by the Program Director.

· Demonstrates superior clinical skills

· Demonstrates effective interpersonal, communication, organizational, and conflict management skills

· Demonstrates basic computer skills

· Graduate of an accredited medical school and an accredited residency program in Family Medicine

· NY State Medical License

· Current DEA Certificate

· Current BCLS certification (required for Level I, II, and III)

· Current Infection Control Certification (required for Level I and II)

· Board Admissible to respective specialty board