Associate Dean, Academic Affairs - Medical Education

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

This role provides academic leadership for the foundational (non-clinical) components of the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine curriculum. The Associate Dean is responsible for the design, integration, delivery, assessment, and continuous improvement of the pre-clerkship curriculum and serves as a principal faculty authority for educational quality, learner assessment, curriculum innovation, and academic standards.

The Associate Dean exercises academic judgment regarding curriculum content, instructional methods, competency expectations, learner assessment, and student progression. This position actively participates in teaching, faculty development, educational scholarship, and shared governance, ensuring that the curriculum remains aligned with institutional priorities and accreditation standards. This position works in close collaboration with the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs – Clinical Education to ensure vertical and horizontal integration across the four-year curriculum and to maintain compliance with Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) standards.

• Provide academic leadership for biomedical, social, behavioral, population health, ethics, professionalism, and health systems sciences.
• Lead curriculum design, mapping, review, integration and continuous quality improvement activities.
• Ensure alignment of learning objectives, instructional methods, assessments and program outcomes across campuses.
• Collaborate with course directors, faculty leaders, Associate Deans, governance committees, operational teams, and institutional partners to ensure coordinated, high-quality educational experiences across campuses.
• Collaborate with the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs – Clinical Education to support curricular integration and readiness for clinical training.
• Participate in shared academic governance and policy development related to assessment, progression, remediation, and promotion.
• Support faculty development in instructional design, teaching effectiveness, and assessment practices.

• Provide leadership for learner assessment strategy, including written and performance-based assessments.
• Oversee analysis and interpretation of learner and program outcomes data using psychometric and assessment principles.
• Conduct or oversee item analysis, standard setting, benchmarking, and review of licensure examination performance indicators.
• Lead continuous quality improvement activities related to curriculum, assessment, and academic outcomes.

• Contribute to accreditation preparation, self-study, reporting, and ongoing compliance activities.
• Collaborate with institutional leaders and governance bodies to maintain curricular approvals, catalog accuracy, degree requirements, academic calendars, and academic records.
• Engage regularly with the College Curriculum Committee (CCC) regarding curricular revisions, assessment strategies, learner outcomes, and accreditation-related matters.
• Partner with the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs – Clinical Education on curricular proposals requiring University Curriculum Council (UCC) review and approval.

• Oversee academic policies and procedures related to academic standing, progression, promotion, remediation, and student academic performance.
• Ensures a high-quality, consistent student learning experience across campuses.

• Leads strategic initiatives such as curriculum reform, educational and technology innovations and adoption, and…