Faculty, Bioethics and Professionalism

Mercer University•Columbus, GA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) is seeking a highly qualified educator with broad training and demonstrated experience or enthusiasm for teaching in a medical school curriculum. This position is a tenure track, 12-month appointment on the Columbus, Georgia campus. Additional duties will be required/assigned during the summer. The departmental assignment will be based on degree type and experience.

Requirements

Hold a terminal degree (PhD, JD, DBe, MD, DO or Equivalent) from an accredited college/university in an appropriate discipline.
Demonstrated Training in Ethics Consultation
A 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 the Rural and Underserved
A Record of Scholarship and Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education
Certification as a Clinical Ethics Consultant (HEC-C)
Experience independently developing learning resources, independently develop and facilitate large group interactive learning sessions, develop items for assessment of student learning
Experience as a tutor/facilitator of small group interdisciplinary case-based learning sessions in a clinically oriented medical curriculum.

Responsibilities

The candidate for this position will be based primarily in Columbus though there is an expectation that all bioethics and professionalism faculty will teach on all three campuses both virtually and physically.
The selected candidate will work closely with the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities and the other faculty in the department in creating an integrated ethics and humanities curriculum in both the pre-clinical and clerkship years.
Faculty are engaged in a variety of pedagogical modes including Team Based Learning and Problem Based Learning.
The selected candidate will be involved in special programs such as faculty development in ethics education, teaching and grand rounds in our affiliated medical centers, sponsoring student projects and research in bioethics and the medical humanities, as well as faculty committee participation.
The department also sponsors a four-year certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities which is open to select students beginning in the second semester of the first pre-clinical year.
Faculty members are expected to participate broadly across the curricula in both the medical and graduate programs, engage in scholarship in areas of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, which includes responsibilities for the four year certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities, as well as interdisciplinary work with the law school, nursing school, pharmacy school and the school of theology.