Description:

The Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences in the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine (TJFFCOM) invites applications for a Clinical Faculty position in the field of medical education. We are recruiting new faculty who have achieved excellence in education, teaching, and research and are prepared to contribute to our bold vision.

The University of Houston is a comprehensive, Carnegie Tier 1 public research university located on a park-like campus close to the Texas Medical Center and major energy companies, with over 45,000 students distributed across 15 colleges, including Nursing, Pharmacy, Optometry, and Social Work. As a location, Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States, and it has first-rate recreational opportunities, excellent schools, and affordable housing.

This is an open-rank, clinical, non-tenure track, faculty position. This position will be full-time at 1.0 FTE. This includes 0.2 FTE for clinical responsibilities. Without the clinical responsibilities, the role is 0.8 FTE.

This faculty will serve as a course director and small group facilitator in the Physician, Patients, and Populations (PPP) Course, which spans the pre-clerkship phase. This course is critical to our mission of preparing physicians to deliver primary care in underserved communities with an emphasis on care that is evidence-based, high-value, and team-based. Topics within this course include physician-patient communication, physical diagnosis, medical interviewing, clinical reasoning and decision-making, professionalism, medical ethics, population health, health informatics, quality improvement and safety, health systems and policy, interprofessional team-based care, behavioral health, and evidence-based medicine. The faculty position will contribute to activities related to clinical skills, which includes interviewing, physical exam, documentation, and simulation. In particular, we are looking for faculty with experience teaching topics related to health systems science.

Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities: 
Duties of this position will include, but are not limited to:
• Serve as a course co-director for PPP and other relevant courses.
• Develop and deliver the PPP course by collaborating with faculty at the college of medicine and university as well as the broader Houston community.
• Develop and deliver clinical skills and health systems sessions in PPP and other relevant courses, including directing and facilitating small-group learning sessions and other active, applied learning and assessment strategies.
• Develop and oversee formative and summative assessment of student performance.
• Assign and submit final grades.
• Identify, coordinate, and evaluate opportunities for student scholarship and service-learning opportunities.
• Conduct ongoing quality assurance and semi-annual evaluation to assess effectiveness and areas for improvement.
• Share evaluation outcomes through internal reports, conference presentations and publications.
• Identify, orient, develop, and provide feedback to faculty in the course.

Service related to TJFFCOM
• Participate in medical school accreditation activities.
• Provide constructive feedback to mentees, staff, and students.
• Contribute to relevant TJFFCOM committees.
• Foster collaborative and supportive relationships with colleagues and students.

Clinical (dependent on final candidate selected)
• Evaluate and treat patients.
• Maintain accurate electronic medical records.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team-based care.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
• Commitment to innovative approaches to education and learning
• Ability to succinctly and effectively convey complex ideas through oral and written communication
• Medical degree from an allopathic or osteopathic medical college
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)

Preferred Qualifications
• Board certification in a primary care specialty
• Experience with an electronic health record
• Experience teaching topics included within PPP and administrative responsibilities within an academic environment
• Experience teaching medical students
• Experience building partnerships across disciplines in pursuit of educational or research objectives
• Experience with cross-disciplinary teaching in an integrated medical curriculum
• Experience with curriculum development and evaluation
• Experience with survey design and data analysis
• Experience using different teaching methods which might include case-based learning, ‘flipped classrooms’, problem-based learning, interactive large group presentations, and audience response systems

Required attachments by candidate:
• CV
• Cover Letter/Letter of Application
• Teaching Philosophy or Statement

Applicants must have a PhD, MD or DO, depending on the position, from an accredited institution. Official transcripts are required for faculty appointment and will be requested upon selection of the final candidate(s). Physician applicants must possess an unrestricted Texas Medical License and board certification in their specialty. While exceptions may be considered, approval must be obtained from the Vice Dean of Education and/or the Dean of the College of Medicine and the Office of the Provost. All positions within the University of Houston System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. Physician applicants are required to provide documentation of current licensure and board certification as part of their application materials.

Employees are expected to have a home address in the state of Texas for the duration of their appointments.

Official transcripts are required for a faculty appointment and will be requested upon selection of the final candidates.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. Individuals conducting research in critical infrastructure areas (i.e., communication infrastructure systems, cybersecurity systems, electric grid, hazardous waste treatment systems, and/or water treatment facilities) are subject to regular review to ensure the security and integrity of the research is maintained.

The University of Houston System and its universities are Equal Opportunity Institutions. Everyone is encouraged to apply.