Tulane University School of Medicine · 1 week ago
Vice Chair of Education >>>
New Orleans, LA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveTulane University School of Medicine is seeking a dynamic and experienced clinician-educator to lead its academic community as the Vice Chair of Education. The role involves centralizing and directing the academic mission, developing faculty and curriculum, and promoting faculty development programming within the Department of Medicine.
EducationHigher EducationMedical
Responsibilities
Strengthen our educational leadership pipeline. This includes:
Overseeing faculty-development activities related to education, such as training faculty members on effective and meaningful teaching, evaluation, and feedback practices
Promoting faculty awareness of institutional and national opportunities for the development of educational leadership and expertise
Providing oversight, support, direction, coaching, development, and empowerment to a diverse cadre of leaders across our education programs, including the Internal Medicine, Medicine-Pediatrics, and Medicine-Psychiatry residency programs and several subspecialty fellowship programs
Developing a Clinical Educators track to support the career trajectory of faculty whose primary focus is medical education
Facilitating the recruitment of clinician educators; orienting new faculty members to roles and responsibilities in education and teaching; fostering a culture of faculty involvement in the Department’s educational programs; and supporting and mentor faculty with specific interest in medical education and/or who are career educators
Collaboratively promote the success of educational programs by:
Serving as the chief department advocate for investment and improvement in these programs
Advising the Chair on educational priorities, funding needs, recruitment, and infrastructure support for these programs
Convening regular meetings of the Department’s educational leadership group to ensure the best possible planning, innovation, integration, and communication across programs
Working with the Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs to develop and maintain annual operating budgets for all educational programs
Assisting the Chair in fostering an environment that values and promotes educational programs
Leading and overseeing of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds and CME programming
Providing oversight of residents’ research activities; engaging faculty to serve as research mentors to trainees; directing and overseeing of the Department’s Resident and Fellow scholarship day
Serve as liaison between the department and key stakeholders. This includes:
Interacting with the Tulane School of Medicine, Tulane’s Graduate Medical Education Office, and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs to promote educational programs and initiatives
Serving as an alternate representative for the Chair on Tulane School of Medicine committees relevant to educational activities, in the Chair's absence, or as the Chair deems appropriate
Collaborating with leaders across Tulane School of Medicine and affiliate hospitals to identify best practices in medical training and opportunities for interprofessional education
Maintain and enhance reporting processes and systems for trainee and faculty performance. This includes:
Developing educational program evaluation processes and metrics for the purposes of assessment, improvement, and planning
Ensuring that all educational programs meet or exceed all compliance standards and policies that govern them, including regulatory and accreditation requirement
Ensuring that our educational programs function consistently with our department values, especially in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Qualification
Required
Dynamic and experienced clinician-educator
Commitment to inclusivity and innovation
Ability to centralize, direct, and grow academic mission
Experience in developing clinician-educator faculty and curriculum
Experience in strategically building faculty development programming
Oversight of faculty-development activities related to education
Training faculty members on effective and meaningful teaching, evaluation, and feedback practices
Promoting faculty awareness of institutional and national opportunities for educational leadership development
Providing oversight, support, direction, coaching, development, and empowerment to diverse leaders across education programs
Developing a Clinical Educators track for faculty focused on medical education
Facilitating recruitment of clinician educators and orienting new faculty members
Fostering a culture of faculty involvement in educational programs
Serving as chief department advocate for investment and improvement in educational programs
Advising the Chair on educational priorities, funding needs, recruitment, and infrastructure support
Convening regular meetings of the Department's educational leadership group
Working with the Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs on annual operating budgets for educational programs
Assisting the Chair in fostering an environment that values educational programs
Leading and overseeing the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds and CME programming
Providing oversight of residents' research activities and engaging faculty as research mentors
Interacting with the Tulane School of Medicine and other stakeholders to promote educational programs
Serving as an alternate representative for the Chair on relevant committees
Collaborating with leaders across Tulane School of Medicine and affiliate hospitals
Developing educational program evaluation processes and metrics
Ensuring compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements
Ensuring educational programs align with department values of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Company
Tulane University School of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine provides medical education services. It is a sub-organization of Tulane University.
Founded in 1834
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$8.5MKey Investors
National Institutes of Health
2018-11-14Grant· $8.5M
Leadership Team
Eric Malamud
Implementation Consultant for Chief Clinical Data Officer
James Zanewicz, JD, LLM, RTTP
Chief Business Officer
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