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 of Simulation Clinical Skills Educator, at the rank of Assistant/Associate 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. This new curriculum, the Shared Discovery Curriculum, provides integrated content organized around patient complaints and concerns. It is an experience-based curriculum where medical students learn by doing.
Our novel medical education 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 the Lansing and Grand Rapids communities. Second year students rotate through several different types of clinical settings including respiratory therapy, hospice and palliative care, pediatric wards, adult wards, 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 entire last two years.
As part of the implementation, the college has created a robust simulation-based clinical skills curriculum to provide medical students with a personal and supportive learning environment. Students have a little over 200 hours simulation-based 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.
Reporting to the Director of Simulation, the Simulation Clinical Skills Educators will support this clinical skills curriculum in a variety of ways:
- Joining 4-hour simulation sessions focused on clinical skills development for first- and second-year medical students, 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 anormal findings, practicing the physical exam on exam models and learning skills using task trainers;
- for some of these events, faculty will serve as on-site back-up and if not needed for direct teaching, they will be asked to work on other tasks to support the simulation curriculum as described below;
- health record grading;
- writing/reviewing/revising cases for formative simulation events;
- writing/reviewing/revising cases for the Progress Clinical Skills Exam (a high stakes standardized patient exam that CHM students take twice per semester);
- 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 and remediation.
The successful candidate will have a medical degree including MD or DO degree and be clinically active with plans to continue to be clinically active while serving in this role. The candidate will need to have completed residency training. The ideal candidate will have a broad primary care background (this would include but not necessarily be limited to internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and Med-Peds) as well as experience teaching clinical skills to undergraduate medical education students. However, it is recognized that many medical specialties have significant knowledge and skills that would lend themselves to simulation education. Academic department and rank will be determined based upon qualifications and experience.
The position will require greater and lesser availability on different days of the week and different times of the year. While educators will not need to be available at all simulation events, they will need to work with the medical director to assure that they can fulfill a 0.3 FTE commitment.
The greatest need is for coverage of Early Clinical Experience (ECE, first year student) events and Middle Clinical Experience (MCE, second year student) events. Simulation is not in session during CHM holiday breaks such as the week of Thanksgiving and the last two weeks of December through the New Year’s Holiday.
ECE simulation 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 Wednesday afternoon from 3pm-5pm and Friday morning from 8am-10am.
MCE simulation occurs from the last week of June through the first week of March on Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1pm-5pm.
Candidates will need to be available for a substantial portion of these sessions.
Additional in-person teaching is needed from March-June, but events are less common, and schedules more widely distributed throughout the week. 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 - MD or DO
Minimum Requirements
The successful candidate will have a medical degree including MD or DO degree and be clinically active with plans to continue to be clinically active while serving in this role. The candidate will need to have completed residency training. The ideal candidate will have a broad primary care background (this would include but not necessarily be limited to internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, and Med-Peds) as well as experience teaching clinical skills to undergraduate medical education students. However, it is recognized that many medical specialties have significant knowledge and skills that would lend themselves to simulation education. Academic department and rank will be determined based upon qualifications and experience.
Candidates hired at the rank of either Assistant or Associate Professor are required to have a medical degree (MD or DO).
Desired Qualifications
The successful candidate will have teaching experience with multiple educational modalities; experience with curriculum development, design, and implementation; 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; program level management; experience in medical education scholarship; and demonstrated collaborative approach to academic governance.
Required Application Materials
Application materials should include all of the following:
- 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.
- the names of three references, who will not be contacted without your consent.
Special Instructions
To assure full consideration, please submit application materials by 4/11/2023.
Applications will be reviewed as needed.
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
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