Associate Dean, Academic Affairs - Clinical Education and Professor - Heritage Colleg

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs – Clinical Education and Open Rank Professor – Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Position Summary:

The Associate Dean, Academic Affairs – Clinical Education is an administrative leadership role with a non‑tenure track faculty appointment as an Open Rank Professor in one of the HCOM clinical departments (Primary Care, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, or Specialty Medicine). As a faculty leader, the Associate Dean contributes to the College’s missions of teaching, clinical education, educational scholarship, faculty development, and academic governance while providing strategic leadership for clinical education across the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine curriculum.

This role provides academic leadership for the clinical components of the curriculum, including pre‑clerkship clinical skills education, clerkships, electives, and other experiential learning activities. It is responsible for the design, integration, delivery, assessment, and continuous improvement of clinical education and serves as a principal faculty authority for clinical competency development, learner assessment, educational quality, and academic standards. The Associate Dean exercises academic judgment regarding clinical curriculum content, learning experiences, competency expectations, learner assessment, student progression, and readiness for graduate medical education.

The position actively participates in teaching, faculty development, educational scholarship, and shared governance, ensuring that clinical education remains aligned with institutional priorities, osteopathic principles, and accreditation standards.

• Lead the design, oversight, assessment, and continuous improvement of the clinical curriculum, including clinical skills education, clerkships, electives, and clinical competency assessment.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and clinical teaching, learning experiences, and competency assessment across sites.
• Oversee student clinical performance, progression, and readiness for residency.
• Partner with operations to ensure adequate, high‑quality clinical training placements.
• Support curriculum integration across phases and alignment with foundational education.
• Contribute to accreditation, governance, and policy (assessment, grading, progression).
• Use outcomes and performance data to drive quality improvement and innovation.
• Collaborate with clerkship and course directors, physician faculty, Associate Deans, governance committees, institutional partners, and program directors to support high‑quality clinical and consistent academic standards across campuses and training sites.
• Provide leadership for clinical curriculum leadership and clinical education programs, including Clinical Skills and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Discipline Directors, Clinical Training and Assessment Center (CTAC), Office of Rural and Underserved Program (ORUP), and Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) programs.

• Maintain regular engagement with the College Curriculum Committee (CCC) to support shared governance and academic oversight of clinical education and continuous quality improvement in clinical education.
  
  Responsibilities include:
  • Present proposed changes to clinical curriculum components, including pre‑clerkship clinical skills, clerkships, electives, and clinical assessment frameworks, for CCC review and recommendation.
  • Provide clinical education outcomes data, site comparability analyses, and continuous quality improvement findings to support decision‑making.
  • Collaborate with CCC leadership and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs – Medical Education on proposals requiring CCC and University Curriculum Council (UCC) review and approval, including clerkship and elective catalog language and degree audit requirements.
  • Support alignment among clinical education standards, institutional academic policies, and accreditation expectations.

• Maintain an active faculty appointment and contribute to the teaching mission of the College through clinical skills instruction, learner assessment, curriculum development, and…