Director of Clinical Skills and Electives

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Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is seeking experienced, motivated, and dedicated leaders and educators to participate in the design and delivery of an innovative four-year medical school curriculum that engages medical students in active and novel learning.
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* Job Description:

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* Job Title:

** Director of Clinical Skills and Electives
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* Reports to:

** Assistant Dean for Clinical Education
** FLSA Classification:
** Non-Exempt
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* Location:

** Bentonville, Arkansas (On-site)
** Date Reviewed**:
October 15, 2025
** Who We Are
** Founded in 2021, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is a nonprofit, four-year MD program that will enhance traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles. The school’s culture embraces self-care to empower students to care for their own well-being as well as their patients’. The school’s state-of-the-art medical education facility is located in Bentonville, Arkansas on the Crystal Bridges campus, home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Heartland Whole Health Institute.

The school has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
** About The Position
** The Director of Clinical Skills and Electives leads the design and delivery of clinical skills education in the pre-clerkship curriculum of the medical education program, including physical exams, patient communication, and clinical reasoning to ensure exceptional clinical skills competencies. This person oversees Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, standardized patient programs, mentors faculty and students, applies educational technologies to ensure achievement, and contributes to curriculum innovation.

This is a nontenure track full time faculty position with 1.0 FTE.
** Essential Duties and Responsibilities
*** Develop, implement, evaluate, and improve methods to instruct, train, and assess clinical skills with an intentional focus on integrating the curriculum particularly as it relates to incorporating the whole health approach with a focus on compassionate, empathic, and effective communication tools and methodologies.
* Develop M4 clinical and nonclinical experiences for students that align with their career goals.
* Help develop faculty providing M4 clinical experiences and assist with educational administrative needs such as but not limited to the creation of syllabi, evaluation and assessment methods when applicable.
* Assist student affairs and the assistant dean for clinical education in making sure students meet their graduation requirements as it pertains to their 4th year electives.
* Serve as primary liaison between the assistant dean for clinical education and M4 course directors & faculty.
* Help serve foundational sciences faculty needs as it pertains to classroom instruction.
* Create and implement content, assessments and evaluation tools to ensure clinical competence and proficiency in history-taking, interviewing, physical exam skills, clinical reasoning, communication, professionalism, and documentation across a four-year curricula.
* Coordinate with other faculty and curricula team members across a four-year medical education program for use of the clinical skills area and resources.
* Create syllabi for the clinical skills courses.
* Participate in the curriculum committee, related subcommittees and the faculty assembly
* Demonstrate familiarity with and prepare students for standardized clinical assessments in conjunction with faculty and staff such as Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE)
* In collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs, provide instructional workshops & faculty development within sessions and during orientation and onboarding of Clinical Skills Faculty.
* Assist with efforts to centralize clinical skills testing and data collection and analysis for feedback, remediation, and student progression. This includes returning students / Leave of Absence students
* Collaborate with…