Learning Coordinator - Surgical Technology

WORK-BASED LEARNING COORDINATOR - SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY

HEALTH SCIENCE
MALCOLM X COLLEGE

This position plans and develops clinical education experiences for the clinical phase in an Allied Health/Career Program. The position monitors supervised clinical practice experiences and modifies them as necessary to ensure expected learning outcomes will be met by each student by program completion.

• Evaluates students' clinical performance, competence, and knowledge in different areas of the medical field, both educationally and through on-site performance.
• Scores and writes reports of evaluations and final examinations. Communicates results to students and program director.
• Discusses performance with faculty and administrators in addition to clinical preceptors, for further understanding of the student's development.
• Maintains links with clinical preceptors, health care institutions, and other agencies involved in the clinical phase of the program.
• Provides clinical instruction and professional and academic counsel to students.
• Performs periodic review and updates course materials.
• Assures the availability of remedial instruction for students.

• Verifies syllabi and lesson plans are appropriately mapped to curriculum.
• Develops and optimizes online study materials to aid in instruction and reports.
• Prepares reports on student use of online study materials.
• Orients instructors and preceptors to ensure student learning outcomes and expected educational competencies are communicated to instructors and scheduled for students.
• Defines and maintains consistent and effective processes for the initial and ongoing evaluation of all sites and preceptors used for students' clinical practice experiences, using comparable evaluation processes to clinical sites regardless of geographic location.
• Monitors clinical rotations to ensure instructors and preceptors are fulfilling student learning outcomes.
• Monitors supervised clinical practice experiences and modifies as necessary to ensure expected learning outcomes will be met by each student by program completion.
• Coordinates with clinical instructors to ensure documentation of student demonstration of defined professional behaviors and to ensure student assessment, evaluations, various documentations and grades are properly obtained, complete, accurate and reported.

• Establishes the clinical rotation schedule for all clinical students using established network of clinical sites.
• Develops new/additional sites for program as necessary.
• Coordinates student schedules with other institutions.
• Performs clinical site evaluations as part of contract renewal.
• Writes qualitative evaluations of site.
• Updates and/or renews contracts as appropriate.
• Collects data and prepares reports on clinical sites for inclusion in accreditation, grants, colleges, and other hospital documents.
• Ensures all student records are complete and accurate.
• Participates in self-study process.
• Maintains documentation to verify student learning outcomes are being achieved.
• Prepares student packets for preceptors to inform them of expected student learning outcomes and facilitate communication with student, instructors and college.
• Ensures and documents that each clinical site provides the student access to physical facilities, patient populations and supervision necessary to fulfill the program’s expectations of the clinical experience.
• Prepares reports on qualitative evaluation of sites for inclusion in accreditation, grant applications, college, hospital and other program documents.
• Promotes and recruits interested individuals into the program.

• Guides…