Director of Clinical Skills for Medical Education

East Carolina University; Greenville (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

An established educational institution is seeking a dedicated Director of Clinical Skills for Medical Education. This part-time role involves overseeing the clinical skills education of medical students, ensuring high standards in assessment and feedback. The successful candidate will collaborate with faculty and staff to develop and implement educational materials and training programs. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of medical education and enhance the skills of aspiring healthcare professionals. If you are passionate about medical education and committed to student success, this position offers a rewarding chance to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Requires a medical degree and experience in clinical skills education.
• Strong background in providing feedback and grading assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback and grading for medical students' clinical assessments.
• Oversee faculty and develop training materials for clinical skills.

Skills

Clinical Skills Assessment

Feedback and Grading

Educational Material Development

Collaboration with Medical Faculty

Quality Assurance in Education

Education

Medical Degree

Experience in Medical Education

Job description

This is an “Internal Posting” for a Director of Clinical Skills for Medical Education, open only to applicants currently employed by East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine. It will be a part-time (up to .40 FTE, up to 40%) reassignment of time for a Brody School of Medicine faculty member who will report to the Associate Dean of Medical Education.

Responsibilities:

1. Providing feedback and grading Standardized Patient (SP) and Physical Training Assistant (PTA) patient notes for all medical students' formative and summative assessment events.
2. Providing timely written feedback to medical students on patient notes.
3. Remediating medical students with deficiencies identified during clinical skills encounters including History and Physical Examinations (H&P) and note-writing activities.
4. Overseeing medical faculty participating in clinical skills education to ensure consistent content delivery.
5. Collaborating with staff of the Office of Clinical Skills to provide longitudinally and progressively appropriate material for medical students.
6. Developing and overseeing PTA training materials and sessions to ensure that it aligns with medical curriculum.
7. Developing educational support material (e.g., PTA videos) appropriate for the medical school clinical skills curriculum.
8. Developing new standardized patient cases as needed for medical student teaching and assessment and review/revised existing cases.
9. Participating in quality assurance and improvement relevant to clinical skills education in the medical school curriculum. Tracking longitudinal clinical skills progression of medical students.
10. Overseeing the implementation of the Transition to M4 Clinical Skills Assessment and coordinate scheduling with the Transition to M4 course directors.
11. Working with the Office of Medical Education, Clinical Curriculum Committee and others to define and develop high stakes summative Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) experiences for medical students in place of the sunsetted step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) exam.
12. Serving as primary clinical skills and debriefing contact for medical school activities, such as monthly M4 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Conflict Resolution events.
13. Working with the Office of Medical Education, Data Analysis and Strategy and others to explore a more substantive evaluation process for clinical skills to include skills-based and learning environment evaluations.
14. Collaborating with the Office of Clinical Skills and the Office of Medical Education to create any new programming (including standardized patient cases and patient formats, as well as coaching and large and small group feedback sessions) needed to prepare BSOM students for any new, pending national testing put forward by the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) that BSOM students will be required to take that tests history-taking, physical exam, communication, and diagnostic skills (in place of the former USMLE Step 2 CS).

Contingent Upon availability of funds.