Job Description
Job Description: Help Build a New Family Medicine & OB Residency Program Phelps Health, Rolla, Missouri
We're not building just another rural residency program. We're building THE program and we need physicians who want to build it with us.
Phelps Health is launching a new ACGME-accredited Family Medicine/OB residency program, welcoming its first residents in Summer 2028. This is a rare opportunity for physicians who want more than a faculty title the chance to shape curriculum, culture, and training philosophy from the very beginning, backed by an institution with the independence and stability to support it long-term.Leadership & Faculty Opportunities
Residency Program Director lead the program's development and long-term direction
Associate Program Director partner in shaping curriculum and training structure
Residency Faculty teach, mentor, and help define what rural FM/OB training should look like
Why This Program Is Different
We are our own sponsoring institution. Phelps Health isn't borrowing GME sponsorship from an outside academic center we control the pace, priorities, and direction of this program directly.
An experienced interim Program Director is already in place, focused specifically on developing and preparing the incoming faculty team before residents ever arrive you won't be building this alone or without guidance.
A people-centered approach. Our existing Family Medicine physicians are collaborative and genuinely eager to participate as faculty this program is being built by people who want to teach, not physicians filling a requirement.
A true ground-floor opportunity. With residents not arriving until Summer 2028, faculty joining now will shape the program's foundation not adapt to a structure someone else already built.
Why Phelps Health
Independent, county-owned hospital with a track record of reinvesting in the organization
Financially sound and growing, with leadership genuinely invested in physician success
Flexible practice models built around what works for physicians and patients
Epic EMR and DAX Copilot already in place, reducing documentation burden
Why Rolla, Missouri
Rolla offers big-city amenities with small-town cost of living 90 minutes from St. Louis, with top-rated public schools, low crime, and endless outdoor access to the Ozarks and Mark Twain National Forest. It's also home to Missouri S&T, ranked Missouri's public university for return on investment (Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce), giving the community a distinct academic and cultural energy uncommon in rural markets.Compensation & Benefits
Guaranteed base salary each year of contract, benchmarked to MGMA data
Achievable wRVU bonus structure each year of contract
Signing bonus, relocation allowance, and residency stipend
J-1 Visa waiver eligible Family Medicine is a priority specialty under the Delta Regional Authority program, supporting visa sponsorship for qualified international physicians
Student loan repayment program
Comprehensive benefits package
Contact: Cole Thompson, Physician Recruitment Manager P: E:
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