Adjunct Faculty – Clinical Faculty - Acupuncture

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

The Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is seeking adjunct clinical faculty for their acupuncture program. Responsibilities include supervising graduate student interns, delivering evaluations, and ensuring a high-quality learning environment.

Faculty will provide oversight at treatment centers and clinical settings. The position requires strong mentoring skills and adherence to educational guidelines. Faculty appointments are made by semester and include responsibilities at both affiliated healthcare facilities and in academic evaluations.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical supervision, especially in acupuncture or related fields.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.
• Familiarity with grading and evaluation in an academic setting.

Responsibilities

• Supervise graduate student interns in clinical placements.
• Deliver evaluations for student progress and treatment planning.
• Ensure compliance with credentialing and training requirements.

Skills

Clinical supervision

Student mentoring

Patient care

Grading policies

Communication

Job description

The New England School of Acupuncture seeks adjunct clinical faculty to deliver high quality clinical supervision and evaluation for the acupuncture program and/or acupuncture with Chinese herbal medicine program. The selected candidate will have responsibilities supervising graduate student interns in their clinical placements. Placements may be at a NESA/MCPHS Treatment Center or at an offsite clinical placement setting. Supervision of the care of patients will include overseeing diagnosis and treatment planning, professionalism, charting, point location, needling, and palpatory skills. Clinical Faculty are hired by the semester: Fall is September-December, Spring is January-April, Summer is mid-May-early August.

• Delivers supervision at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA Hospital and provides experiential clinical instruction in person.
• Provide an engaging active learning environment for students
• Provide students with periodic informal as well as formal evaluations of their progress toward meeting placement objectives
• Apply grading policies fairly and consistently
• Adhere to preceptor guidelines, provided by the Director of Clinical Education, which include placement objectives and learning outcomes, supervision methodology, attendance policies in line with those of MCPHS, assignments and deliverables, timelines and evaluation criteria
• When requested, uses the University’s learning management system to post syllabus, assignments and other materials and to communicate with students
• Provides services related to student mentoring, ongoing placement development, and assessment
• Maintains all credentialing required by the placement setting, and complies with all placement setting onboarding and training requirements
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned by the Director of Clinical Education