Director of Clinical Skills and Electives

Art and Wellness Enterprises•Alice, AR

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Clinical Skills and Electives leads the design and delivery of clinical skills education in the pre-clerkship curriculum of the medical education program, including physical exams, patient communication, and clinical reasoning to ensure exceptional clinical skills competencies. This person oversees Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, standardized patient programs, mentors faculty and students, applies educational technologies to ensure achievement, and contributes to curriculum innovation. This is a nontenure track full time faculty position with 1.0 FTE.

Requirements

M.D or D.O physician who has successfully completed post graduate training (residency) training within the United States, required.
Current or prior clinical practice as a physician within the United States, required.
3 years of related clinical and teaching experience, or the equivalent experience related to clinical education, required.

Nice To Haves

MD/DO licensed or eligible to practice medicine in Arkansas, preferred.
Work experience of five years directing or managing a clinical skills department / course within an accredited undergraduate medical education program, preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, evaluate, and improve methods to instruct, train, and assess clinical skills with an intentional focus on integrating the curriculum particularly as it relates to incorporating the whole health approach with a focus on compassionate, empathic, and effective communication tools and methodologies.
Develop M4 clinical and nonclinical experiences for students that align with their career goals.
Help develop faculty providing M4 clinical experiences and assist with educational administrative needs such as but not limited to the creation of syllabi, evaluation and assessment methods when applicable.
Assist student affairs and the assistant dean for clinical education in making sure students meet their graduation requirements as it pertains to their 4th year electives.
Serve as primary liaison between the assistant dean for clinical education and M4 course directors & faculty.
Help serve foundational sciences faculty needs as it pertains to classroom instruction.
Create and implement content, assessments and evaluation tools to ensure clinical competence and proficiency in history-taking, interviewing, physical exam skills, clinical reasoning, communication, professionalism, and documentation across a four-year curricula.
Coordinate with other faculty and curricula team members across a four-year medical education program for use of the clinical skills area and resources.
Create syllabi for the clinical skills courses.
Participate in the curriculum committee, related subcommittees and the faculty assembly
Demonstrate familiarity with and prepare students for standardized clinical assessments in conjunction with faculty and staff such as Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE)
In collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs, provide instructional workshops & faculty development within sessions and during orientation and onboarding of Clinical Skills Faculty.
Assist with efforts to centralize clinical skills testing and data collection and analysis for feedback, remediation, and student progression. This includes returning students / Leave of Absence students
Collaborate with Student Affairs, course/clerkship directors to plan and implement remediation for students who fail to perform at expected level in assessments of clinical skills during the clinical skills course or during phase III and phase IV clinical experiences.
Participate in assessing re-entry students for competency in performing clinical skills needed to safely reenter at any point during undergraduate medical education training.
Manage and direct the clinical skills team, including but not limited to staff, standardized patients, and faculty for clinical skills instruction and assessment
Assist with development and management of departmental budget.
Oversee the operations of the clinical skills space and coordinate with others to establish and maintain clinical space within the school’s premises
Abide by LCME standards and AWSOM policies.
Other duties as assigned.