Learning Coordinator - Surgical Technology

HEALTH SCIENCE

MALCOLM X COLLEGE

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

Student Evaluations and Related

Activities:

• Evaluates students’ clinical performance, competence, and knowledge in different areas of the medical field, botheducationally 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’sdevelopment.
• Maintains links with clinical preceptors, health careinstitutions, and other agencies involved in the clinical phase ofthe program.
• Provides clinical instruction and professional and academiccounsel 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 ininstruction 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 comparableevaluation processes to clinical sites regardless of geographic location.
• Monitors clinical rotations to ensure instructors and preceptorsare 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 ofstudent demonstration of defined professional behaviors and toensure student assessment, evaluations, various documentations andgrades are properly obtained, complete, accurate and reported.

• Establishes the clinical rotation schedule for all clinicalstudents 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 hospitaldocuments.
• Ensures all student records are complete and accurate.
• Participates in self-study process.
• Maintains documentation to verify student learning outcomes arebeing achieved.
• Prepares student packets for preceptors to inform them ofexpected 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 and counsels students to help them achieve the best results of the program.
• Assists students…