Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE)

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE)

Director of Clinical Skills and Electives

Bentonville, AR · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 31 days ago
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About the role

  • Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is a nonprofit, four-year MD program that will enhance traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles.
  • The school's state-of-the-art medical education facility is located in Bentonville, Arkansas on the Crystal Bridges campus, home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Heartland Whole Health Institute.
  • The school has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

Responsibilities

  • Develop M4 clinical and nonclinical experiences for students that align with their career goals.
  • Create syllabi for the clinical skills courses.

Requirements

  • Visual acuity to review written materials is required for this job.

Skills

  • Director of Clinical Skills and Electives

Benefits

  • Help develop faculty providing M4 clinical experiences and assist with educational administrative needs such as but not limited to the creation of syllabi, evaluation and assessment methods when applicable.
  • Assist student affairs and the assistant dean for clinical education in making sure students meet their graduation requirements as it pertains to their 4th year electives.
  • Serve as primary liaison between the assistant dean for clinical education and M4 course directors & faculty.
  • Coordinate with other faculty and curricula team members across a four-year medical education program for use of the clinical skills area and resources.
  • This includes returning students / Leave of Absence students
  • Some local travel will be required, and a flexible schedule may be necessary to accommodate business needs, including occasional evening and weekend work hours.

Company info

  • Founded in 2021, Alice L.
  • The school's culture embraces self-care to empower students to care for their own well-being as well as their patients'.
  • About The Position
  • The Director of Clinical Skills and Electives leads the design and delivery of clinical skills education in the pre-clerkship curriculum of the medical education program, including physical exams, patient communication, and clinical reasoning to ensure exceptional clinical skills competencies.
  • This person oversees Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, standardized patient programs, mentors faculty and students, applies educational technologies to ensure achievement, and contributes to curriculum innovation.
  • This is a nontenure track full time faculty position with 1.0 FTE.
  • Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Develop, implement, evaluate, and improve methods to instruct, train, and assess clinical skills with an intentional focus on integrating the curriculum particularly as it relates to incorporating the whole health approach with a focus on compassionate, empathic, and effective communication tools and methodologies.
  • Help serve foundational sciences faculty needs as it pertains to classroom instruction.
  • Create and implement content, assessments and evaluation tools to ensure clinical competence and proficiency in history-taking, interviewing, physical exam skills, clinical reasoning, communication, professionalism, and documentation across a four-year curricula.
  • Participate in the curriculum committee, related subcommittees and the faculty assembly
  • Demonstrate familiarity with and prepare students for standardized clinical assessments in conjunction with faculty and staff such as Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE)
  • In collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs, provide instructional workshops & faculty development within sessions and during orientation and onboarding of Clinical Skills Faculty.
  • Assist with efforts to centralize clinical skills testing and data collection and analysis for feedback, remediation, and student progression. This includes returning students / Leave of Absence students
  • Collaborate with Student Affairs, course/clerkship directors to plan and implement remediation for students who fail to perform at expected level in assessments of clinical skills during the clinical skills course or during phase III and phase IV clinical experiences.
  • Participate in assessing re-entry students for competency in performing clinical skills needed to safely reenter at any point during undergraduate medical education training.
  • Manage and direct the clinical skills team, including but not limited to staff, standardized patients, and faculty for clinical skills instruction and assessment
  • Assist with development and management of departmental budget.
  • Oversee the operations of the clinical skills space and coordinate with others to establish and maintain clinical space within the school's premises
  • Abide by LCME standards and AWSOM policies.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Equal opportunity

  • Walton School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.
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