Clinical Assistant Professor (Clinical Oral Healthcare)

Primary Purpose and Essential Functions:
Reporting to the Chair of the Department Clinical Oral Healthcare. Primary areas of responsibility include active clinical teaching in Emergency and main clinic and coordinating faculty onboarding, training, scheduling, and calibration. In addition to the traditional expectations for faculty members, the culture of humanism and collaboration at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry is especially important.

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PRIMARY PURPOSE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. General

• Be a role model and actively promote ethics, humanism, professionalism, the mission of the school, and personal growth for oneself and others.
• Demonstrate professionalism and responsibility.
• Participate in the life of the school, seek information, and work to common purposes.
• Develop and share in the collective knowledge of the school.
• Engage students and colleagues in disciplined reflection and critical thinking.

2. Teaching

• Promote maximal learning among all students, oneself, and one's colleagues.
• Be current in one's discipline.
• Provide feedback and evaluation in ways that preserve dignity, promote learning, develop consistency, and allow others to make valid decisions.
• Use all methods and modalities of teaching and assessment appropriate to one's teaching assignments.
• Be accessible to students and colleagues.

3. Scholarship

• Continuously reflect in a disciplined fashion on one's field, on education, and on practice.
• Share scholarship through publications, presentations, and other means with one's peers.
• Develop an area of scholarship marked by cumulative advances in knowledge and practice.
• Participate in organizations and groups that encourage and sustain inquiry and provide peer review.
• Seek funding, opportunities for investigation, and other resources to sustain scholarship.
• Demonstrate a willingness to examine any part of one's professional activities in light of appropriate literature, data, critical thinking, and peer review.

4. Service

• Perform activities for the common good of the School of Dentistry, the university, one's professional groups, and the community.
• Bring distinction to the School of Dentistry by one's actions.
• Exercise and model leadership through helping others work cooperatively for shared goals.

5. Patient Care and Management of Patient Care

• Promote patient oral health and satisfaction with care in our clinics.
• Make referrals as appropriate, but not for one's own benefit.
• Enhance patients' respect for students and the school.
• Participate in quality assurance and other programs designed to improve the overall effectiveness of the school's clinics.
• Strive for mastery as a practicing professional.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBLITES:

• Serve as generalist faculty in main clinic including evening clinic sessions.
• Serve as faculty in Emergency clinic including break weeks.
• Develop communication strategies including communication with faculty, patient surveys and faculty surveys.
• Under the direction of the Department Chair, coordinate and facilitate faculty development including onboarding, scheduling, training, and calibration.
• Present at meetings and huddles.
• Provide didactic and clinical guidance, education, orientation, and mentorship for students through procedural oversight and small group learning.
• Screen patients for group practices.
• Axium related tasks to assist GPL in case of absence.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by the Chair of Clinical Oral Healthcare.

Minimum Qualifications:
Knowledge of:

• Dental school generalist teaching model.
• Competency based education and assessment methodology.
• Modern pedagogical concepts and application in health professions education.
• Providing care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Integrated, interprofessional care delivery systems.
• Trends in oral health and oral health education.
• Dental accreditation standards and processes.
• Computer skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Ability to:

• Promote the dental school mission, vision, and core values.
• Lead and function in an active change environment.
• Communicate effectively with faculty, staff, residents, students in a variety of ways including: email, texts, one-on-one conversations, small meetings, large meetings, lectures, etc.
• Always maintain professional composure and demeanor.
• Listen, follow, collaborate, negotiate, compromise, direct, delegate, refer, and think critically.
• Inspire excellence and promote innovation.

Experience:

• Minimum of 1 year of work experience in a dental school setting.
• Minimum of 5 years of practice experience.

Education:

• DDS/DMD or equivalent.
• Completion of an advanced education program in [discipline or specialty]

Working Conditions:

• Position requires coordination of a variety of responsible duties in stressful non-clinical and clinical situations.
• Must be available to work additional hours every weekday and some weekends.

Preferred Qualifications:
Distinguishing Characteristics:

• Behavior consistent with core values of the Dugoni School.

Other:

• Experience and sensitivity in working with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Demonstrated experience in advancing social justice, equity, and inclusion in a university setting.
• Ability to engage and integrate culturally responsive practices and knowledge in their work.

Physical Requirements:

• Work performed is primarily direct patient care with frequent use of computer keyboard and phone.
• Requires sitting, standing, bending, walking.
• Occasional lifting of up to 15lbs should be anticipated.

Special Instructions:


To apply, visit https://pacific.peopleadmin.com/postings/30119

University of the Pacific is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. In compliance with applicable law and its own policy, Pacific is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff and does not discriminate in its hiring of faculty and staff, or in the provision of its employment benefits to its faculty and staff on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sex/gender, marital status, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, medical condition, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, or mental or physical disability.






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