Associate Dean for Clinical Education - School of Medicine

Title:

Associate Dean for Clinical Education

Reports to:

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Direct Reports:

• Clerkship Directors

Responsibilities:

• Furthers the mission, vision, and goals of the College of Medicine and Methodist University
• Serves as an ambassador for the College, the University, and the Health System
• Serves as a member of the Deans’ Council
• Provide leadership to a cadre of clerkship directors, and coordinators that work at the medical school and within our health care system including but not limited to
  • Clinical curriculum development and implementation including content, pedagogy, and assessment.
  • Episodic, biannual, and annual reviews of compliance with accreditation needs, student performance, faculty engagement
  • Collaborate with Associate Dean for Student Success to ensure all learners are progressing and work develop remediation programs when indicated.
  • Collaborate with the Associate Dean for Foundational Sciences to ensure integration of the basic, clinical, health systems, and behavioral sciences across the UME curriculum.
  • Collaborate with the Assistant Dean for Assessment to oversee the design and development of the assessment system for the clinical curriculum.
  • Bring awareness surrounding new developments in health professions educational technologies and modalities and identifying necessary resources.
  • Define and ensure consistent application of evaluation strategies for student performance.
  • Ensure ongoing compliance with the LCME accreditation standards surrounding the MD educational program.
  • Have experience in the design of block and longitudinal integrated clerkship models.
  • Lead and execute the ongoing process of clinical preceptor recruitment, growing regional partners in numbers, particularly in underserved and rural regional areas.
  • Meet the needs of faculty, optimizing number of students and fulfilling teaching goals
  • Partner with the office of faculty development to ensure adequate faculty development resources.
  • Provide direct oversight for clerkship and clinical elective lotteries.

Experience:

5 years or more of leadership as the level a clerkship director, assistant/associate dean in a medical school working in a complex, matrixed organization

Credentials

MD/DO degree

Prefer Certificate or Master’s degree in medical/health professions education