Associate Clinical Coordinator – Principal PA Faculty

Samuel Merritt University • Oakland, CA

40d • Onsite

About The Position

Under the supervision of the Program Director, the PA Principal Faculty member is responsible for teaching, service, scholarship, and administrative elements within the Physician Assistant Program. This role involves a combination of administrative duties (30%) and teaching, scholarship, and service (70%). The faculty member will contribute to the development and evaluation of the program's curriculum, student recruitment and selection, and academic advisement. Additionally, they will engage in scholarly activities, maintain external relationships for clinical experiences, and support student job placement and alumni relations.

Requirements

• Nationally certified, state licensed physician assistant.
• Minimum of a Master's degree.
• 2 years clinical experience or in teaching in an academic setting.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to utilize statistical software and apply analytics.
• Strong critical thinking, organization, and problem solving skills.
• Proficient written and verbal language skills.
• Competent in working with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• 2 years experience in teaching in an academic setting.
• Actively practices medicine.
• Expertise in teaching physical diagnosis, varieties of clinical medicine topics, pharmacotherapeutics and/or running lab groups.

Nice To Haves

• Doctoral degree in health care related field

Responsibilities

• Provide classroom instruction preparing and presenting relevant, current course content as instructor of record and guest lectures in other courses as needed.
• Developing, reviewing and revising as necessary the mission statement, goals and competencies of the program.
• Participate in student recruitment, admission, and selection process.
• Evaluating student performance.
• Participate in curriculum committee, provide input to faculty in designing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the curriculum.
• Performing student advisement and academic counseling.
• Participate with student remediation activities as required.
• Support with data collection, analysis, and determination of actions for evaluation in the Program.
• Be available on site for students and events as necessary.
• Post and maintain office hours of 4 hours a week with an average of 3 days each week on campus.
• Compose, edit and continually review information for the PA Student Handbook.
• Review educational literature and learning media to keep abreast of new teaching/learning strategies.
• Help develop, implement and modify as necessary academic calendars for didactic students.
• Help participate orientation program of incoming class.
• Help coordinate, prepare, and administer preclinical summative examination, final summative examination, and OSCE examinations.
• Effective budget management.
• Help to monitor program academic integrity.
• Maintain collaborative external relationships to facilitate valuable clinical experiences and community relationships.
• Provides at least one introduction to DCE for a new preceptor or site annually.
• Help with student job placement and alumni relations.
• Participates in various community and civic activities.
• Participate in scholarly activity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Mental health and wellness resources
• Education reimbursement
• Employee discounts through Marketplace
• Paid vacation, sick leave, and parental leave
• Nine paid holidays, plus a paid holiday break between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Two floating holidays
• One paid Volunteer Work Day
• Five Education Leave Days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal