Assistant Dean of Clinical Sciences
Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine
Location
Provo, UT | United States
Job description
Noorda College of Osteopathic Medicine
Position: Assistant Dean of Clinical Sciences
Department: Clinical Affairs
Schedule: M - F (Full time, 40 hours per week)
Location: On-site at the Provo, Utah Campus
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Assistant Dean of Clinical Sciences serves as liaison on behalf of the Associate Dean for clinical faculty's practice efforts; serves as an educator and clinician within discipline; contributes to the education of students; builds partnership opportunities across and among various entities and actively engages in the advancement of the College.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1. Supports Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in management of College's clinical faculty performance of clinical duties collaborating with relevant internal and external partners as applicable.
- Serves as liaison on behalf of Associate Dean (recruitment, contracting, communications, scheduling where appropriate) for clinical faculty practice opportunities (hospitals, clinical facilities, etc.)
- Serves as an effective student mentor (maintaining close communication, assures students are met with regularly, facilitates discussions, etc.) helping students reach optimal performance (monitoring performance, working to identify at-risk students, contributing to remedial assistance, and referring students as appropriate, etc.)
- Contributes to training of adjunct clinical faculty (performing needs assessments, contributing to program development, to include the knowledge and understanding of osteopathic philosophy and principles) to improve preceptor skills and student education.
2. Serves as a clinician ensuring the quality, integrity, and defined standards within faculty's discipline.
- Maintains professional knowledge (attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, maintaining active membership within applicable professional societies, and participating in professional organizations).
- Performs within the scope of clinical practice and under licensure by the relevant Utah state regulatory board; provide patient care within the standards of the profession, rigorously contributing to the defense of any claims made in the course of representing the College in any official capacity.
- Provide medical services to include all duties and responsibilities reasonable and customary in the execution of clinical practice (documentation, billing, utilization and peer review, fulfilling compliance requirements) to meet or exceed standard of care withing the faculty clinical area of specialization.
3. Serves as an educator ensuring the quality, integrity, and defined standards within faculty's discipline.
- Develop and deliver content in collaboration with Academic Affairs ensuring essential elements [quality, integrity, adequacy, consistency, student use/results, impact etc.] adhere to and exceed, as defined by the relevant governing body accreditation requirements and the College's mission (ensuring appropriateness of educational experiences, identifying opportunities to build and enhance the educational experience, providing constructive feedback, documenting findings, etc.)
- Maintains content expertise within discipline and contributing to the curricular model and delivery modalities of that coursework for which the unit is responsible and recommends changes when appropriate.
- Ensures teaching is current, appropriate and inter-related, and where applicable, support and build upon previous learning experience content (integrate emerging knowledge with practical longitudinal clinical experience, aligning learning objectives and process) increasing student understanding of subject matter.
- Works effectively as a team member to enhance and improve curricula, including potential opportunities for collaborative efforts within the department or with outside individuals, programs, or departments: maintaining a climate hospitable to creativity and innovation.
- Develop and maintains a working knowledge of various teaching and assessment approaches (small group, bedside teaching, mentoring, lecture, independent practice-based learning, evidenced based medicine approach, simulation including institutional simulation, online learning and interactive video scenario, standardized patient).
4. Endeavors to accomplish research
- Collaborate and/or mentors with faculty, staff and students (internal and external) to develop and implement research topics (including formulating concepts, brainstorming approaches, organizing ideas, collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data) in support of preparation of manuscripts for publication and submission for intramural and extramural educational grants leading to the execution of scholarly research (facilitating the preparation, modifying and refining of proposals and applications, seeking external funding, developing and maintaining positive rapport with funding agencies, etc.)
- Present on a variety of research and scholarly topics (Conference presentation, manuscripts for publication) locally nationally and internationally including developing content submitting for consideration, finalizing presentation and delivering on time.
- Facilitate and/or contribute towards interdepartmental research collaborations.
5. As relates to the department, actively engages in the advancement of the College.
- Builds collaborative partnership opportunities across and among various entities participating in networking opportunities, [internal and external partners [elected officials, state constitutional officers, business and community leaders] other colleges and universities, hospitals, local organizations, societies, etc.] promoting relationships with the College.
- Serves on various committees and teams within the College as assigned (attending meetings, contributing to discussions, sharing/exchanging information, and leading constituents toward goal attainment) to include advising and mentoring (Students, clubs, campus organizations)
- Contributes to College's compliance with and in the development of required documentation as related to accreditation of the College to which departmental content is contributed. (faculty adequacy model, gathering data, self-assessment, peer review, providing input/feedback, etc.) aiding in the attainment of academic compliance.
- Participates in the production of various College materials.
- Contributes to the College's reputation of being one of the best osteopathic medical colleges. (monitoring outcomes, partnering with internal and external stakeholders, modifying techniques, etc.)
- Contributes to the College's reputation/image of being one of the best osteopathic medical colleges (monitoring outcomes, partnering with internal and external stakeholders, modifying techniques, etc.)
- Is knowledgeable of and remains in compliance with all institutional policies and procedures as outlined in the Employee Handbook for Noorda Com College.
6. Contributes to team effort by performing other duties as needed/assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education : DO/MD degree. Completion of an ACGME or AOA approved residency. ABMS or AOA BOS board certification.
Experience : Three to five years of experience in medical education preferred.
Skills amp; Abilities : Highly professional with honest, genuine, direct communication style, excellent interpersonal skills and emotional maturity with the essential ability to demonstrate tact, discretion and job diplomacy. Ability to institute a comfortable learning environment necessary to maintain a dynamic curriculum with a vision for growth. Must have the ability to work diplomatically and effectively with a variety of internal and external constituents. Proven track record of quality, integrity and trustworthiness. Ability to make common sense, consistent and fair decisions (based on fact and data) and have courage of convictions and tolerance for ambiguity.
Must be:
- Able to institute a comfortable learning environment necessary to maintain a dynamic curriculum.
- Self-confident, strong leader, skilled decision-maker with ability to lead by influence and effectively communicate with various constituencies across the College.
- Exceptional listening, written and oral presentation skills.
- Able to work independently yet is an effective participant in cross-functional teams.
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined, have a strong work ethic and capable in establishing priorities in an executive setting.
- Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and effectively handle frequent interruptions.
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