Faculty, Bioethics and Professionalism

Mercer University•Macon, GA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Mercer University School of Medicine seeks a highly qualified educator with broad training and demonstrated experience or enthusiasm for teaching in a medical school curriculum. This is a tenure-track, 12-month faculty appointment based primarily on the Macon, Georgia campus. Additional duties are assigned during the summer, and the departmental assignment will be based on the candidate’s degree type and experience. Faculty are expected to teach across all three MUSM campuses—in Macon, Savannah, and Columbus—both virtually and in person. The selected candidate will work with the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities and other departmental faculty to create an integrated ethics and humanities curriculum for pre-clinical and clerkship years. Teaching approaches include Team Based Learning and Problem Based Learning. The faculty member will also contribute to ethics education faculty development, teaching and grand rounds at affiliated medical centers, student projects and research in bioethics and medical humanities, and faculty committees. Faculty are expected to participate broadly across medical and graduate curricula and engage in scholarship in Bioethics and Medical Humanities. The position includes responsibilities for the department’s four-year bioethics and medical humanities certificate program and interdisciplinary work with the law, nursing, pharmacy, and theology schools. Mercer’s patient-centered medical curriculum emphasizes interactive and problem-based teaching and prepares physicians to address the healthcare needs of rural and underserved Georgia communities.

Requirements

Terminal degree (PhD, JD, DBe, MD, DO, or equivalent) from an accredited college or university in an appropriate discipline.
Demonstrated training in ethics consultation.
Commitment to the mission of Mercer University School of Medicine.
Excellent writing and communication skills.
Research and teaching in the medical humanities.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the care of rural and underserved populations.
A record of scholarship and teaching in undergraduate medical education.
Certification as a Clinical Ethics Consultant (HEC-C).
Experience independently developing learning resources.
Experience independently developing and facilitating large-group interactive learning sessions.
Experience developing items for assessment of student learning.
Experience as a tutor or facilitator of small-group interdisciplinary case-based learning sessions in a clinically oriented medical curriculum.

Responsibilities

Create an integrated ethics and humanities curriculum for pre-clinical and clerkship years in collaboration with the department chair and faculty.
Teach on all three MUSM campuses, both virtually and physically.
Participate in teaching approaches including Team Based Learning and Problem Based Learning.
Contribute to faculty development in ethics education.
Teach and participate in grand rounds at affiliated medical centers.
Sponsor student projects and research in bioethics and the medical humanities.
Participate in faculty committees.
Participate broadly across the medical and graduate curricula.
Engage in scholarship in Bioethics and Medical Humanities.
Fulfill responsibilities for the four-year certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities.
Participate in interdisciplinary work with the law, nursing, pharmacy, and theology schools.
Perform additional assigned duties during the summer.