What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychiatry Clerkship Director position at Northwell Health Physician Partners?
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell
The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell is seeking the position of Clerkship Director for Advanced Clinical Experience (ACE) in Psychiatry , known at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell (ZSOM) as ACE Director.
The Psychiatry UME team is responsible for a range of required and elective experiences in the ZSOM curriculum, namely : pre-clinical coursework (The Human Condition), pre-clerkship clinical exposure (Initial Clinical Experience in Psychiatry), the core clerkship ACE, the Psychiatry Acting Internship, and diverse electives for both ZSOM and visiting students. The team collaborates in curriculum integration across courses, developing faculty and resident as teachers, medical education scholarship, and the recruitment and advising of students considering psychiatry.
Psychiatry ACE Director is a 0.4 FTE role in educational administration for the ZSOM psychiatry clerkship. The ACE Director works with the Director of UME and partners at ZSOM to ensure continued excellence for this 6-week core clerkship that spans multiple hospitals and includes dozens of faculties and resident teachers. The ACE Director leads in teaching (including large- and small-group sessions), student assessment, program evaluation, curriculum development, and faculty development for the clerkship.
Benefits at Northwell Health include :
- Nationally competitive salaries
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Four weeks’ vacation plus paid conference / CME time
- Academic appointment in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell
- Advanced education opportunities
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, 830 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra / Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. Experience a career well cared for and make a difference in the lives of our community.
Northwell Health is committed to training, supporting and nurturing physicians from all backgrounds. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result, our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do from education to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being.
Diversity and inclusion permeate our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receive training on how to deliver high quality, culturally competent care. Our recent educational areas of focus have been on social determinants of health, community engagement and developing a medical-legal partnership for our physicians-in-training. One of our many strengths is our diverse patient population and our expectation is that our diverse patient populations receive equitable care, irrespective of who they are. As a result, we continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of our diverse patients.
Please send a letter of interest and CV to Dr. Timothy Kreider, Director of UME at tkreider@northwell.edu.
