Assistant /Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Evaluates, develops, and delivers course material to ACOM students in a particular scientific discipline.
- Contributes to the learning of medical students, graduate students, interns, and residents through classroom teaching as well as in oneonone out of class situations.
- Serves in leadership and membership capacities on college and faculty committees.
- Actively pursues scientific research or other scholarly activity in one or more areas of scientific study.
- Participates in professional and scientific meetings to further individual knowledge and to contribute to the development of other professionals.
- Prepares and delivers presentations to other professionals at ACOM and during local/regional/national professional and scientific meetings.
- Supervise graduate students, student workers and research assistants.
- Evaluates student progress in learning appropriate medical knowledge. Communicates these evaluations to the student and administrative/faculty members as appropriate; and
- Publishes results of scientific research or other scholarly activity in professional journals for a particular area of study.
- Note: Faculty can perform scholarly activity other than research to satisfy their responsibility such as author a book, chapter, or manual; produce educational computer software, teaching models, etc.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Possess excellent verbal and communication skills; demonstrated ability to complete multiple assignments, meet deadlines and exercise good judgment; must have excellent interpersonal skills, be organized and very detail oriented.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Earned doctorate in the related field.
- For consideration as an Associate or full Professor, at least 58 years' experience in an academic setting at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or full Professor.
- Demonstrated experience in teaching in an accredited college.
Preferred:
- Previous academic experience in an osteopathic institution or other medical college with experience working in an integrated curriculum; and
- Broadly trained with experience in graduate program administration.
- Demonstrated experience in teaching in an accredited college.
This position is located at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, the academic division of Southeast Health. Campus and Community:
Located in Dothan, AL, ACOM was founded to address the shortage of primary care physicians across southeast Alabama and was Alabama's first osteopathic medical college. The 110,000 square-foot facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art research center, team-based learning center, and stand-alone simulation lab. ACOM's pre-clinical curriculum is delivered through a hybrid, discipline- and systems-based model - in the first semester, students are presented with discipline-based core concepts, including basic foundational sciences and gross anatomy. With a patient-centered focus, this core curriculum is complemented by longitudinal instruction in OPP, team-based learning activities, a robust medical simulation program, early standardized patient encounters, and a unique population health and evidence-based medicine curriculum as well as a four-year career development and advising program. The clinical curriculum for third- and fourth-year students is delivered through an extensive network of dedicated preceptor physicians located in community-based hospitals and clinics throughout Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. Visit the ACOM website at www.acom.edu to learn more.