Assistant Professor or Higher (Clinician Medical Educator)

Texas Tech University • El Paso, TX

4d

About The Position

This position contributes to the university’s mission through teaching, research, and service, with some variation by academic unit. The faculty member will provide leadership for the development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical science, clinical reasoning, and clinical skills education throughout the pre-clerkship curriculum. Responsibilities include serving as course director, co-director, thread/content leader, or in another curricular leadership role, ensuring educational quality, curricular integration, alignment with program objectives and competencies, and reviewing learner and course outcomes. The role involves collaborating with basic science and clinical faculty to create an integrated curriculum that connects health and disease mechanisms with clinical manifestations, diagnostic evaluation, clinical decision-making, and patient management principles. Significant instruction will be provided in the Medical Skills curriculum, covering medical interviewing, history-taking, physical examination, communication, oral presentation, clinical documentation, clinical reasoning, and other foundational patient-care skills. The position requires designing and delivering authentic, evidence-informed learning experiences using various methods such as interactive instruction, case-based and team-based learning, demonstration, deliberate practice, simulation, and standardized-patient encounters. Faculty-level leadership for formative and summative assessment of clinical knowledge, reasoning, and skills is also a key component, including case-based assessment, direct observation, rubric-guided and narrative assessment, OSCEs, and other performance-based examinations. The role involves contributing to blueprinting, case and scoring-tool development, rater preparation/calibration, review of performance data, and assessment quality improvement. Data from student performance and course evaluations will be used to identify curricular improvement opportunities and collaborate with leadership to address gaps, redundancy, inconsistencies, sequencing, integration, and intentional reinforcement. The position also entails providing timely formative feedback, coaching, mentoring, and educational support to medical students, including individualized assistance for those needing extra help with clinical reasoning or skills. Participation in the recruitment, orientation, development, and calibration of faculty, residents, teaching assistants, standardized patients, and other instructors is expected, along with collaboration with simulation and standardized-patient personnel to ensure consistent, high-quality instruction and assessment. The role includes developing and maintaining learning objectives, instructional materials, assessments, course documentation, and other curricular resources. Additionally, the position involves engaging in research and/or scholarship to advance scientific knowledge, providing clinical service to maintain competence and support departmental teaching programs, contributing to the community through academically-related public service, ensuring compliance with HIPAA, billing requirements, accreditation expectations, and institutional policies, serving the academic community through governance participation (e.g., committee work), demonstrating professionalism, and upholding the values-based culture of TTUHSC El Paso.

Requirements

• M.D. or D.O. degree, or equivalent
• Successful completion of ACGME-accredited residency training
• Medical License or eligibility for medical licensure in the State of Texas
• Board certification by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) corresponding to the candidate's ACGME-accredited residency training
• Established record of clinical practice and medical teaching

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated experience in undergraduate medical education, particularly in the pre-clerkship phase of the medical curriculum
• Training or experience in curriculum development, course administration or leadership, clinical science instruction, clinical reasoning, clinical skills instruction, and assessment of medical students
• Experience teaching history-taking, physical examination, oral presentation, clinical documentation, clinical reasoning, and/or other foundational skills required for patient care
• Experience with innovative and active teaching methods, such as interactive large- and small-group instruction, case-based learning, team-based learning, simulation, and other applied learning formats
• Experience developing or implementing standardized-patient encounters, simulation-based educational activities, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), or other performance-based assessments
• Experience providing formative feedback, coaching, mentoring, and/or remediation to medical students
• Experience in faculty or instructor development, particularly related to clinical teaching, assessment, feedback, or rater calibration
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with basic science faculty, clinical faculty, educational staff, simulation personnel, standardized patients, and curriculum leadership
• Interest and/or demonstrated accomplishments in medical education scholarship
• Participation in regional or national organizations or committees devoted to medical education
• Emerging or established regional or national reputation in medical education and/or the candidate's clinical discipline for appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or higher

Responsibilities

• Provide faculty leadership for the development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical science, clinical reasoning, and clinical skills education throughout the pre-clerkship curriculum.
• Serve as course director, co-director, thread/content leader, or in another curricular leadership role as assigned, with responsibility for educational quality, curricular integration, alignment with program objectives and competencies, and review of learner and course outcomes.
• Collaborate with basic science and clinical faculty to develop and deliver an integrated curriculum that connects mechanisms of health and disease with clinical manifestations, diagnostic evaluation, clinical decision-making, and principles of patient management.
• Provide substantial leadership and instruction in the Medical Skills curriculum, including medical interviewing, history-taking, physical examination, communication, oral presentation, clinical documentation, clinical reasoning, and other foundational patient-care skills.
• Design and deliver authentic, evidence-informed learning experiences using methods such as interactive large- and small-group instruction, case-based and team-based learning, demonstration, deliberate practice, simulation, standardized-patient encounters, and other experiential formats.
• Provide faculty-level leadership for formative and summative assessment of clinical knowledge, reasoning, and skills, including case-based assessment, direct observation, rubric-guided and narrative assessment, OSCEs, and other performance-based examinations; contribute to blueprinting, case and scoring-tool development, rater preparation/calibration, review of performance data, and assessment quality improvement.
• Use student-performance, course-evaluation, and other program data to identify opportunities for curricular improvement and collaborate with course and curriculum leadership to address gaps, redundancy, inconsistencies, sequencing, integration, and intentional reinforcement across the pre-clerkship curriculum.
• Provide timely formative feedback, coaching, mentoring, and educational support to medical students, including individualized support for learners requiring additional assistance in developing clinical reasoning or clinical skills.
• Participate in the recruitment, orientation, development, and calibration of faculty, residents, teaching assistants, standardized patients, and other instructors, and collaborate with simulation and standardized-patient personnel to promote consistent, high-quality instruction and assessment.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of learning objectives, instructional materials, assessments, course documentation, and other curricular resources associated with assigned educational responsibilities.
• Engage in advancement of scientific knowledge through research and/or scholarship.
• Provide clinical service sufficient to maintain clinical competence and support departmental teaching programs.
• Contribute to the community through academically-related public service complementary to the institutional mission.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, applicable billing requirements, accreditation expectations, and institutional policies and procedures.
• Serve the academic community through participation in institutional governance, such as committee work and other administrative duties.
• Demonstrate professionalism in accordance with the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Declaration of Faculty Professionalism Responsibility.
• Uphold and promote the values-based culture of TTUHSC El Paso.

Benefits

• Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as the institutional pay plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree