Clinical Instructor or Higher (Periodontics)

Texas Tech University•El Paso, TX

About The Position

The Clinical Instructor in Periodontics contributes to the university’s mission through teaching, research, and service. The role participates in administering and teaching the dental school curriculum, develops and delivers an integrated curriculum combining basic science and clinical concepts in collaboration with faculty across disciplines, and uses varied instructional methods. The instructor assesses dental student performance and provides students with individual support, feedback, and advice. The position works with course and curriculum committees, faculty, and administrators to advance the dental school’s curricular goals. It also includes clinical practice in periodontics, research and/or scholarship, participation in institutional governance and professional organizations, and academically related public service. The position requires adherence to institutional policies and procedures, professionalism under the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine Declaration of Faculty Professional Responsibility, and support for TTUHSC El Paso’s values-based culture.

Requirements

D.M.D. or D.D.S. degree from a CODA-accredited dental school, or an equivalent degree from a non-CODA-accredited dental school.
Successful completion of a CODA-accredited training program in periodontics.
Texas dental licensure or eligibility for an unrestricted Texas dental license.
For clinical assistant professor or higher rank, at least one year of experience teaching periodontics.
Board certification by the American Board of Periodontology.

Nice To Haves

Experience teaching dental surgery in a clinically integrated dentistry program to dental students.
Experience using medical/dental imaging, laboratory findings, restorations, and clinical case-based scenarios to teach periodontics.
Experience developing and delivering clinical periodontics instruction.
Experience developing and delivering an integrated dental curriculum.
Experience with innovative teaching methods, including interactive large- and small-group formats, laboratory-based instruction, team-based learning, case-based learning, problem-based learning, and distance education.
Experience with curriculum and clinical management software systems.
Participation in national organizations or committees devoted to dental education.
Experience in dental education scholarship.
Experience developing grant proposals and managing extramural funding.
For clinical associate professor or higher rank, an emerging or established regional or national reputation.

Responsibilities

Participate in course administration and instruction for the dental school curriculum.
Develop and deliver an integrated curriculum combining basic science and clinical concepts, in collaboration with faculty in other disciplines.
Use multiple teaching methods, including case-based instruction, large- and small-group discussion, lectures, demonstrations, simulation, team-based learning, and distance education.
Provide formative and summative assessments of dental student performance.
Provide individual support, feedback, and advice to dental students.
Work with course and curriculum committees, fellow faculty, and administrators to accomplish the dental school curriculum’s goals and objectives.
Participate in institutional governance, committee work, and other administrative duties.
Engage in clinical practice of periodontics.
Advance scientific knowledge through research and/or scholarship.
Participate in professional organizations serving the academic dentistry community.
Contribute academically related public service complementary to the institutional mission.
Adhere to institutional policies and procedures and demonstrate professionalism in accordance with the faculty responsibility declaration.
Uphold and promote TTUHSC El Paso’s values-based culture.