About Hofstra:

Position Title: Director, Clinical Skills, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

School/Division: School of Medicine

Full Time/Part Time: Full-Time

Description:

• Develops, implements, and refines innovative assessments of clinical competence, including history-taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis development, oral and written presentations, and patient-centered communication across the four-year medical education program.
• Collaborates with Clinical Skills Center staff at CLI to establish and enhance a standardized patient program and ongoing quality improvement initiatives.
• Leads the Clinical Learning Integration team, ensuring synergy and integration across all phases of medical education.
• Contributes to the development and revision of learning objectives and session design for physical diagnosis, clinical learning, clinical reasoning, oral presentations, and clinical documentation.
• Develops formative and summative clinical skills assessments in partnership with course, clerkship, and component directors.
• Provides feedback on student performance to faculty for continuous quality improvement of clinical curricula and assessment.
• Coordinates RIA simulation and OSCE case topics with MHDI course directors in the first 100 weeks.
• Oversees scoring of assessments within the clinical skills domain.
• Collaborates with the Office of Educational Data and Analytics to refine standards for clinical skills assessments and monitor student progress in achieving milestones.
• Supervises clinical skills faculty team members.
• Provides orientation and ongoing faculty development for clinical skills educators to support effective teaching and assessment.
• Oversees coaching and remediation for students needing additional support.
• Serves as Family Head, facilitating Communications, Clinical Learning, and Patient, Physician, and Society (PPS) sessions, as well as precepting clinical skills exams.
• Facilitates physical diagnosis sessions.
• Participates as teaching faculty in simulation debriefs, core learning, ACE rounds, PEARLS, and Structure as needed.
• Attends faculty development sessions.
• Engages in medical education scholarship related to curricular work.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree required.
• Minimum of three years of supervisory or managerial experience in a clinical setting.
• Experience instructing medical students in clinical skills, including history-taking, physical examination, patient communication, clinical reasoning, oral presentations, medical documentation, and Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).
• Ability to contribute to multidisciplinary medical instruction in both small and large group settings, as well as in planning and executing assessments.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple roles within the School of Medicine curriculum.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse populations and implement goal-driven programs.

EEO Statement:

About Hofstra University

Hofstra University is a nationally ranked and recognized private university in Hempstead, N.Y. that is the only school to ever host three consecutive presidential debates (2008, 2012 and 2016). At Hofstra, students get the best of both worlds. Our campus is a leafy oasis just a quick train ride away from New York City and all its cultural, recreational and professional opportunities. We offer small classes and personal attention, with the resources, technology and facilities of a large university. Students can choose from more than 160 undergraduate program options and 165 graduate program options in the liberal arts and sciences, education, health professions and human services, the Peter S. Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs, the Fred DeMatteis School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, the Maurice A. Deane School of Law, the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, and the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Hofstra University is a dynamic community of more than 11,000 students from around the w...orld who are dedicated to civic engagement, academic excellence and becoming leaders in their communities and their careers.

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