Academic Clinical Faculty, Primary Care - FTE

Teaching Position at Touro University Nevada

This position is responsible for teaching in Touro University Nevada. This position fulfills duties to further the mission of the department, college, and University by participating in student education, scholarly activities, and University service. Faculty members are encouraged to conduct original research/scholarly activities and pursue extramural funding in their areas of interest. This position is a 12-month appointment with primary teaching and clinical responsibilities with opportunities to conduct original research/scholarly activities and contribute to institutional service activities.

Located in Henderson, Nevada, approximately twenty-five minutes from the iconic Las Vegas strip, Touro University Nevada is a non-profit medical, health sciences, and education graduate university focused on positively impacting our community in healthcare and education. Our values surrounding intellectual pursuit and service to humanity are steadfast and are clearly visible in the actions of our students, faculty, staff, and graduates.

We invite you to apply to our position for consideration to join the ranks of our talented and professional staff and faculty.

• Serves as an educator ensuring the quality, integrity, and defined standards within faculty's discipline
• Develop and deliver content in collaboration with Program Directors and Department Chairs ensuring essential elements adhere to and exceed, as defined by the relevant governing body accreditation, requirements and the University's mission
• Maintains content expertise within discipline and contributing to the curricular model and delivery modalities of that coursework for which the unit is responsible and recommends changes when appropriate
• Ensures teaching is current, appropriate, and inter-related, and where applicable, support and build upon previous learning experience content
• Works effectively as a team member to enhance and improve curricula, including potential opportunities for collaborative efforts within the department or with outside individuals, programs, or departments; maintaining a climate hospitable to creativity and innovation
• Develop and maintains a working knowledge of various teaching and assessment approaches
• Performs Clinical Duties as assigned
• Provide medical services to include all duties and responsibilities reasonable and customary in the execution of clinical practice
• Maintains professional knowledge
• Performs within the scope of practice and under licensure by the relevant Nevada state regulatory board; provide patient care within the standards of the profession
• Serves as an effective leader/mentor for students in the clinical environment
• Provide engagement and supervision in leading University to prepare students from every field to be lifelong active citizens through service learning opportunities
• Helps ensure students reach optimal performance
• Accomplish research
• Collaborate and/or mentors with faculty, staff and students to develop and implement research topics
• Present on a variety of research and scholarly topics
• Facilitate and/ or contribute toward interdepartmental research collaborations
• Actively engages in the advancement of the University
• Builds collaborative partnership opportunities across and among various entities participating in networking opportunities
• Promotes and represents the University at local, state, and national events
• Refers to and coordinates in advance with the Office of Advancement/Public Relations team on all media contacts, communications, and/or interactions
• Coordination in advance with the Office of Advancement on all legislative issues
• Serves on various committees and teams within the University as assigned
• Contributes to University's compliance with and in the development of required documentation as related to accreditation of all programs
• Is knowledgeable of and remains in compliance with all institutional policies and procedures
• Contributes to team effort by performing other duties as needed/assigned

Education :

• DO or MD degree required.
• Current Nevada license and board certification in a primary care specialty (Internal Medicine,…