Vice Chair, Clinical Skills Education

About the position

The primary purpose of the Vice Chair, Clinical Skills Education at the Boonshoft School of Medicine (BSOM), is to oversee the comprehensive longitudinal instruction in clinical skills within the BSOM curriculum, including functioning of the Skills Assessment and Training Center (SATC) and related programs. This includes developing curricula, supervising scheduled activities, administering clinical instruction, and providing leadership necessary for the success of both the Center and its participants.

Responsibilities

• Leadership: Supervise regularly scheduled activities within the SATC for medical students throughout all years of the BSOM WrightCurriculum, including the required leadership, administration, and clinical instruction required for the success of the SATC and related programs.
• Recruit, supervise, and train SATC Staff.
• Design, build, deliver, and assess clinical skills educational and assessment sessions.
• Management of Simulated Patients.
• Recruitment and training of preceptors and teaching faculty.
• Organization of workshops.
• Develop Simulated Patient Encounter (SPE) and Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) scenarios for BSOM and external clients.
• Student Learning: Provide support and mentoring to students requiring clinical skills remediation.
• Supervision of medical students enrolled in SATC Elective (BSOM catalog # SMD8499).
• Preceptor for teaching MS1 interview and physical examination (PE) skills courses.
• Small group facilitator for clinical reasoning sessions as well as other longitudinal PE skills.
• In-room direct observation and scoring of SPE or OSCE simulated patient activities.
• In-person, 1:1 video reviews and provision of feedback for students with low or failing scores on assessment OSCEs.
• Scoring of SPE and OSCE post-encounter questions and chart notes.
• Core Faculty / Teaching: Participate in classroom didactics and clinical supervision of WSUBSOM learners.
• Teach as needed in modules related to content area expertise.
• Participate in learner evaluations and mentorship.
• Participate in committees, meetings, and other related items.
• Perform other duties as assigned, in support of mission objectives and initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Physician, MD or DO, having experience with and demonstrated interest in UME teaching.
• Clinical experience in their primary specialty.
• Clinical Medicine Foundations and Doctoring curricula focus on clinical skills principally of a non-surgical nature.
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Assistant Professor level candidates must meet all requirements above.
• Associate Professor level candidates must meet all requirements above, plus have at least three years' experience as an Assistant Professor with an exemplary scholarly portfolio and supervisory experience and meet all Associate Professor Promotion requirements.
• Full Professor candidates must fulfill all the requirements of Associate Professor, plus have at least five years' experience at the Associate Professor along with an exemplary scholarly portfolio and leadership experience and meet all Professor Promotion requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Clinical background in Family, Internal, or Emergency Medicine or Pediatrics.