Associate Dean Academic Affairs - Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine

Summary

The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs is responsible for assessment of didactic and clinical education for the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (AZCOM) Dean’s office. The dutiesand responsibilities of this position will fall into fourcategories: teaching, research, service and administration. This position reports to the AZCOM Dean and requires a Ph.D. or D.O.from an accredited college in an appropriate field. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairs should remain current in his/her field of education, and demonstrate proven experience in teaching and academic leadership in medical education.

This is a non-tenured,faculty position.

This position requires a Ph.D. or D.O. from an accredited collegein an appropriate field. The Associate Dean for Academic Affairsmust remain current in his/her field of education and demonstrate proven experience in teaching and academic leadership in medical education.

• Provide a faculty development plan to the Dean annually.
• Participate in teaching students in his/her area of expertise.
• Review COMLEX performance with AZCOM faculty on an annual basis.
• Update COMLEX performance data on the AZCOM Fast Facts websiteannually.
• Facilitate remediation of students who fail any section ofCOMLEX.
• Provide student performance data to the Curriculum Committee toassist with course reviews.
• Assist the Associate Dean for Curricular Integration and Faculty Development with assessment of pre-clinical academic student performance.
• Assist the Associate Dean for Clinical Education with assessment of clinical and post-rotation examination student performance.
• Assist the Associate Dean for Clinical Education with tracking of residency placement results, residency program director surveys,alumni surveys, and other data collected relating to student performance.
• Oversee the Director of Assessment and support the Dean with the management of students on leaves of absence to ensure they stay ontrack for graduation and residency placement.
• Assist Associate Dean for Clinical Education with maintenance ofthe Residency Placement Match Tool and faculty development on itsuse for student advising.

• Participate and mentor clinical faculty in educational and/orother research. Participation is best documented throughpublication in peer-reviewed journals, but may also be demonstrated through provision of lectures at local or national clinical or scientific conferences, presentation at poster programs, NBOMEquestion writing, or submission of applications for grants.
• Supervise students in research projects supported by the AZCOMDean’s Office.
• Support faculty members in the Department of Clinical Education in developing their research.

• Participate on University and college committees as assigned,including, but not limited to Curriculum Committee, and Clinical and Preclinical Promotions Committees.
• Participate in Admissions as an interviewer.
• Present Admissions talks on behalf of the Dean.
• Participate in the AZCOM portion of Orientation.
• Help to plan graduation activities for AZCOM students.
• Participate in faculty development programming as apresenter.
• Assist the Dean and other members of the team with Medical Student Performance Evaluations annually.
• Represent AZCOM faculty at educational meetings.

• Supervise and develop faculty and staff in the Department of Assessment.
• Assist preceptor development through feedback from Preceptor Report Card.
• Advise faculty in the Department of Assessment regardingpromotion in rank advancement.
• Oversee and develop AZCOM’s Department of Assessment budgetannually.
• Do performance evaluations annually for all faculty and staffreporting to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
• Assist with annual update of the Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine catalog and AZCOM website.
• Assist in the development of annual AACOM reports.
• Assist the Dean with accreditation compliance for AZCOM,including all required annual and mid-cycle reporting.
• Assist with annual MWU outcomes assessment programming.
• Manage AZCOM exit and alumni surveys.
• Other duties as assigned by the Dean.

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