Academic Hospitalist and UME Educator (Assistant/Associate Professor)

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Position Summary:

The Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) seeks scholars who are committed to supporting the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds and to thoughtfully engaging all communities in higher education. Florida Atlantic University is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all who interact in our community. In building this environment, we strive to attract students, faculty and staff from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences. Florida Atlantic University embodies a culture of strategic and collaborative community engagement that results in mutual benefit to the institution and the various internal and external communities that it serves. We are seeking faculty who can contribute to the excellence in our programs and courses through their research, teaching, and service.

The Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University is seeking a dynamic and collaborative clinician educator to join the faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Medicine. This position is intended for faculty with experience in teaching, leadership, innovation, and clinical service as an internist or hospitalist. 

This role is a combined educational and clinical faculty position for both Graduate Medical Education (GME) and Undergraduate Medical Education (UME). 

The GME component will include participating on the inpatient teaching service with the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, one of our GME clinical partners.  These duties include:

• Serve as a teaching attendant for the Internal Medicine residency program, primarily based at Boca Raton Regional Hospital, for 12-14 weeks per year, caring for hospital inpatients from admission to discharge.
• Maintain clinical competence in the practice of hospital medicine and serve as a role model of a board-certified internist or family medicine hospitalist.
• Develop a career focus in scholarly activity and develop a portfolio of publications and presentations.
• Provide 2-3 lectures at the internal medicine residency program Academic Half Day each year, as well as facilitate small-group sessions as the schedule permits.
• Engage in mentorship of internal medicine residents.
• Participate in the clinical education of College of Medicine students on their internal medicine clerkships or sub-internships in internal medicine.

Teaching opportunities within the Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) curriculum may include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Serve as a facilitator/instructor for various components of the Foundations of Medicine courses, which may include Science of Clinical Practice (SCP), Clinical Learning Groups (CLG), Clinical Skills and/or Simulation Center sessions.
• Serve as a facilitator for PBL, IQ and/or SLIQ groups within the foundational sciences courses.
• Assess clinical skills of medical students, including scoring student performance during annual Institutional Competency Assessments and/or other OSCEs in Years 1, 2, and 3.
• Serve as an instructor for the Year 3 Synthesis and Transition course.
• Serve as an instructor for the Year 4 Transition to Residency course.
• Conduct Year 3 Academic Half-Day sessions as well as other educational sessions throughout the UME curriculum.
• Oversee one or more designated curriculum courses, threads and/or content areas aligned with expertise.
• Engage in medical student mentorship activities.

There are opportunities for scholarly work and quality improvement as well. There may also be other clinical education roles, depending on the candidate’s skills, interest, and other responsibilities.  Furthermore, there will be opportunities for growth in academic rank with access to mentorship from senior faculty members in the College of Medicine. 

The mission of the Schmidt College of Medicine as a community-based medical school is to advance the health and well-being of our community by training future generations of humanistic clinicians and scientists and translating discovery to patient-centered care. We are committed to providing educational programs, in partnership with our hospital affiliates, that enable our medical students and residents to become active, self-directed, life-long learners; equip our graduates to effectively treat the patients that they are most likely to encounter in their practices; produce graduates with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and self-awareness required to practice effective, humanistic, patient-centered, evidence-based medicine; emphasize the centrality of collaborative relationships in the provision of the highest quality comprehensive health care; and foster and value collaboration among medical specialties, and between academic medicine and community health care professionals.

Our mission is to produce graduates who are prepared and motivated to play a central role in the achievement of three critical state goals: (1) providing the highest quality health care to Florida's citizens; (2) assuring that the state has the requisite number of medical faculty required to support Florida's medical schools and assure continued access to medical education opportunities in Florida; and (3) producing physician-scientists with the knowledge and skills required to become board-certified in internal medicine and embrace lifelong learning.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree (M.D. or D.O.) from an accredited institution and credentials that merit appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher is required.
• A Florida medical license or eligibility for Florida licensure is required.
• American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) or American Board of Osteopathic Internal Medicine (ABOIM) board certification in Internal Medicine. Applicants with board certification from the American Board of Family Medicine are also eligible to apply, especially if hospital medicine focused.
• A track record of clinical excellence and experience is preferred.
• Significant teaching experience with students and/or residents and demonstrated teaching excellence is preferred.
• Strong ethical and professional conduct is required.
• Ability to effectively communicate with different members of the healthcare system as well as a variety of learners from varied backgrounds is required.
• Experience working directly with people from various backgrounds is preferred.

Salary:

Commensurate with Experience

College or Department:

College of Medicine

Location:

Clinical - Off Campus Location (COM use only)

Work Days and Hours:

N/A

Application Deadline:

2024-06-30

Special Instructions to Applicant:

This position is open until filled and may close without prior notice.
This position is subject to funding.
All applicants must apply electronically to the currently posted position on the Office of Human Resources' job website (https://fau.edu/jobs) by completing the required employment application for this recruitment and submitting the related documents.
Required Documents:
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Transcripts:
The selected candidate for this position is required to submit an official transcript sent directly from the institution for the Provost’s credential file prior to the first day of employment. Similarly, for degrees from outside the United States, the evaluation by an organization belonging to the National Association of Credential Evaluation (NACES), with an indication of the documents the evaluation was prepared from (official transcripts, diplomas, dissertation abstracts) is required for the Provost’s credential file prior to the first day of employment. Transcripts must be issued to Florida Atlantic University, not to the individual applicant.
Background Screening:
Selected candidates must successfully complete and pass all employment screenings prior to the start of employment. Employment screenings may include a criminal background check (level I and level II), motor vehicle check, credit check, reference checks, alcohol, and drug screening check.
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