MOSDOH - Associate Professor Integrated Human Sciences

Atsu Public•Kirksville, MO

4d•Onsite

About The Position

A.T. Still University Missouri School of Dentistry & Oral Health (ATSU-MOSDOH) is seeking an Associate Professor of Integrated Human Sciences. This role involves implementing and evaluating the integrated human science predoctoral curriculum, teaching biomedical sciences including anatomy (neuroanatomy, systemic anatomy, embryology, and histology), and fulfilling research mentoring duties. The position requires collaboration with various university staff to develop, implement, and assess the curriculum, identify and resolve curriculum gaps, schedule courses, and deliver didactic content. Responsibilities also include creating and revising course materials, assessments, and examinations, conducting gross anatomy lab demonstrations and dissections, producing educational materials, assessing student progress, and supervising students in simulation clinic activities. Additionally, the role involves serving on committees, conducting research, securing grants, publishing findings, and mentoring students in research.

Requirements

Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) and PhD in Anatomy (can be foreign equivalents).
60 months higher education clinical and didactic experiences, especially at the pre-doctoral level.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and assess an academically sound plan for delivery of integrated human science content across the four years of the MOSDOH DMD program.
Identify gaps, inappropriate overlaps, and inconsistencies in the integrated human science curriculum and help maintain and improve it.
Schedule courses and faculty for the integrated human sciences curriculum in collaboration with university staff.
Deliver didactic content for all assigned anatomy and other coursework.
Provide items for examinations, quizzes, remediation, retakes, and other assessments, including mapping.
Develop and/or revise course and learning objectives, associated assessments, and provide curriculum mapping.
Deliver gross anatomy lab demonstrations and dissections.
Produce adjunctive educational materials, including demonstration videos.
Maintain and revise didactic content (lecture materials) as directed.
Maintain and revise laboratory manual content and written examination content.
Help students achieve competence in Human Sciences and critical thinking.
Assess student progress and implement remediation requirements.
Identify challenges to the Biomedical and Dental Sciences curriculum and propose appropriate resolutions.
Supervise students in simulation clinic activities as assigned.
Serve on MOSDOH Committee(s) as assigned.
Conduct research, contribute to securing grants, and publish findings in their field of study.
Serve as PI of internal (or external) grant-funded research and collaborate on other faculty research projects/initiatives.
Publish research findings and present at conferences.
Assist with instructional and other research mentoring duties as assigned.