Psychiatry Clerkship Director

Psychiatry Clerkship Director

We are now accepting applications for a qualified Psychiatry Clerkship Director at Belmont University.

Employment Type
Faculty

Internal Job Category
Non-Tenure Track (Faculty)
Part-Time

Department
College of Medicine

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

The clerkship director oversees the discipline-specific activities for the clerkship phase of the curriculum as well as the individualization phase of the curriculum, including the required core clerkships, required experiences (e.g. sub-internships) in the individualization phase, and elective experiences. Responsibilities include assuring appropriate student supervision and comparability of student experience and clinical encounters across sites, as well as overseeing completion of student assessment by faculty preceptors. The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Clerkship Phase Subcommittee and the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings, and previous stated curriculum committees is critical to this position.

Competencies and Expectations

• Maintain board certification (or board eligibility, if appropriate) through the appropriate specialty board.
• Understand school-wide educational goals for students as outlined in student handbooks.
• Communicate specific curricular goals of the respective department and FCoM, as a whole, clearly to students and faculty.
• Manage a program with appropriate administrative skills, including scheduling for students and faculty.
• Achieve and demonstrate consistency in curriculum and learner assessment across multiple clinical sites.
• Manage a credible, consistent, and fair process of student assessment and grading that will meet legal and accreditation standards and be completed in a timely manner in collaboration with the Offices of Medical Education (OME) and Student Affairs (OSAD).
• Provide feedback to individual students and faculty in a skilled manner.
• Analyze multiple sources of program evaluation data (e.g. student evaluations, experience and procedure reports, etc.) to effect continuous educational quality improvement.
• Collaborate with other educational leaders to continually improve the education program.
• Assist in the development and implementation of remediation for students who do not successfully pass the clerkship.
• Provide skilled career counseling that includes knowledge of residency programs in specialty.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with students and faculty.
• Advise the department chair and leaders of medical student education on educational policy and strategic planning, with attention to anticipated changes in resources and community/societal needs