Physician Assistant​/Administration​/Illinois​/Director of Didactic Education, Physician Assistant

Overview:

National Louis University is seeking a Director of Didactic Education and Principal Faculty member for a new Physician Assistant (PA) program launching at its Chicago campus. This is a 12-month professional practice faculty position that will function in a joint role with administrative and faculty responsibilities that will involve activities in both the didactic and clinical phases of the students? academic program.

The annual workload requirement is 36 semester credit hours. Rank will be commensurate with education, experience, and academic record.

The Director of Didactic Education (DDE) will assume the responsibility for developing and overseeing the didactic phase of the PA program, ensuring it aligns with ARC-PA accreditation standards, program goals, and curricular requirements in collaboration with the Physician Assistant Program Director. Duties include, but are not limited to, planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the didactic education experience, to ensure students are prepared and demonstrate the competencies required to progress to the clinical phase of the program.

The DDE will report to the Program Director at the Chicago campus and serve in a leadership role in the Physician Assistant Program. The PA faculty consists of a highly motivated, cohesive group of experienced educators. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive curriculum to prepare students to practice in a variety of clinical settings and specialties.

ADMINISTRATION

• Oversee implementation of curricular design and coordination of scheduling of the didactic program with faculty and instructors to optimize delivery of instructional content to students.
• Ensure faculty are appropriately oriented to: program mission and goals, specific teaching responsibilities, program instructional resources, and specific learning objectives for which they are responsible.
• Mentor and support didactic instructors to ensure alignment of program, course, learning, and session objectives with classroom instruction and student assessment.
• Confirm, record, and report remediation instruction is occurring in didactic courses according to department policy and procedure.
• Serve as a member of the Education Committee and lead curricular evaluation to ensure high quality education through curriculum development and continuous self-assessment and improvement processes.
• Design original or review and modify as appropriate existing curricula to correlate with established or new course and program outcomes.
• Implement curricula in alignment with the educational objectives of the National Louis University Physician Assistant Program.

TEACHING

• Mentor, instruct and evaluate students within areas of need, expertise, and interest.
• Develop, revise, and publish syllabi that are compliant with institutional and departmental requirements.
• Develop, revise, and maintain student course learning objectives in alignment with session objectives.
• Serve as course director, conduct classroom teaching, and participate in course assignments in a setting promoting team teaching.
• Understand and use the university provided learning management system to facilitate the course. Turn in grades to the registrar by the posted deadline each semester.
• Develop, revise, adjudicate, and align student assessments with course and session learning objectives.
• Conduct student course remediation activities in accordance with the program policy and procedures.
• Attend guest lectures and ensure content delivered is in alignment with the session learning objectives. Provide peer feedback and evaluation.
• Serve as a faculty advisor and mentor students.
• Participate in lab sessions and simulations.
• Participate in the course review evaluation process and execute the agreed action plan at the next course offering.
• Establish a personal program of peer-reviewed scholarly activity resulting in local, regional, and/or national, presentation or publication.

SERVICE

• Maintain an active role in state and national organizations supporting the educational mission of the program.
• Represent the Department in intramural and extramural community activities.
• Participate in student recruitment, admission interviews and selection, curriculum evaluation, student progress, and accreditation activities.
• Serve as a member of the Department?s PA Education Committee, PA Admissions Committee and PA Student Progress Committee.
• Attend faculty meetings of the Department.
• Participate in student class activities.
• Other duties as assigned by the Department Chair & Program Director.

CLINICAL PRACTICE

• Maintain clinical credentials, including state licensure and national certification, to ensure ongoing alignment with current professional standards and instructional relevance.
• Faculty are encouraged to engage in clinical practice that complements their teaching and supports program goals; however, such activity must not conflict with assigned teaching and administrative responsibilities.
• Requests to engage in clinical practice during…