Working/Functional Title

Simulation Clinical Skills Educator

Position Summary

The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine’s Office of Academic Affairs invites applications for a position Simulation Clinical Skills Educator in the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor.  In 2016, the College of Human Medicine (CHM) implemented an innovative new curriculum, envisioned to be responsive to the needs of students and faculty in a new technological era and a new medical landscape. The SDC, provides integrated content organized around patient complaints and concerns.  It is an experience-based curriculum where medical students learn by doing.

Our novel curriculum integrates basic and social sciences with clinical experiences starting soon after matriculation.  During the first year, students are placed in primary care settings throughout Lansing and Grand Rapids communities. Second-year students rotate through several different types of clinical settings including pediatric wards, adult wards, women’s health, and emergency medicine. The Late Clinical Experiences include clerkships in the primary specialties and elective rotations and occurs in the community campuses across Michigan. In addition to the integrated curriculum during clinical experiences, students engage in intensive study of basic sciences, epidemiology, health policy and other social sciences during intersessions at the end of years one and two. The Late Clinical Experience also includes Advanced Skills and Knowledge courses which span the final two years.

CHM has created a robust simulation-based clinical skills curriculum to provide medical students with a personal and supportive learning environment.  Students have about 50 half-days reserved in the curriculum during the first two years for formative educational experiences in CHM’s sim centers in Grand Rapids and East Lansing. Faculty participate in the simulation program by directly observing students as they engage with standardized patients portraying common chief complaints and concerns as well as when practicing skills on task trainers.

The Simulation Clinical Skills Educators will report directly to the Director of Simulation and will support this clinical skills curriculum in a variety of ways: 

• Teaching in half-day simulation sessions focused on clinical skills development for first- and second-year medical students. This will include observing and providing feedback as students engage with standardized patients to practice clinical reasoning, interviewing, physical exam, patient education and counseling skills. Additional educational modalities include interactions with patients with abnormal findings, practicing the physical exam on exam models and learning skills using task trainers
• For a portion of these events (around 15-20%), faculty will serve as on-site back-up. If not needed for direct teaching, they will then work on other tasks that support the simulation curriculum, such as:
  • Writing/reviewing/revising cases for formative simulation events
  • Writing/reviewing/revising cases for the Progress Clinical Skills Exam (a high stakes standardized patient exam taken by CHM students)
  • Health record grading
  • Observing and providing feedback to hourly faculty in collaboration with education specialists at the Office of Medical Education Research and Development
  • Teaching clinical skills to individual students needing coaching

Educators will need to work with the medical director to ensure that they can fulfill a 0.2 FTE commitment. A more detailed description of the simulation calendar is provided below, but this generally means being available most weeks for at least three of the four half-days occurring on Wednesday and Thursday from late June through early March.

Simulation is not in session during CHM holiday breaks such as the week of Thanksgiving and the last week of December through the New Year. Very few simulation events occur from early March through late June.

ECE simulation currently occurs from the last few weeks of August through the first week of March on Wednesday and Thursday morning from 8am-noon. During the first 8 weeks of the ECE curriculum, there are additional simulation sessions on Friday from 8a-noon for the first eight weeks.

MCE simulation currently occurs from the last week of June through the first week of March on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 1p-5p.

Additional in-person teaching occurs sporadically outside the time blocks noted above. Case writing/review/revision can also occur during this March-June time block and scheduling would be more flexible.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

Required Degree

Doctorate

Minimum Requirements

The successful candidate will have a medical degree including MD or DO degree; teaching experience with multiple educational modalities; experience working with faculty teams; and demonstrated effectiveness working with students at a variety of performance levels. In addition, experience in any of the following areas is desirable: curriculum design, learner assessment, and program evaluation; experience with faculty development design and implementation; and experience in medical education scholarship. The ideal candidate will have a primary broad generalist background (this would include but not necessarily be limited to internal medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and Med-Peds) as well as experience teaching clinical skills to undergraduate medical education students. Preference will be given to faculty who remain clinically active.

Academic department and rank will be determined based upon qualifications and experience. (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor)

Required Application Materials

• A statement of interest highlighting specific strengths related to this position, including previous experience and accomplishments in teaching clinical skills;
• A statement of commitment to diversity;
• A current curriculum vitae; and
• The names of three references, who will not be contacted without your consent.

Special Instructions

To assure full consideration, please submit application materials by 08/05/2024.

Review of Applications Begins On

08/05/2024

Remote Work Statement

MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.

Website

https://humanmedicine.msu.edu/education/academic-affairs.html

MSU Statement

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