Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences

We are now accepting applications for a qualified Chair, Department of Clinical Sciences at Belmont University.

Employment Type:

Faculty

Internal Job Category:
Tenure Track (Faculty)

Full-Time

Department:
College of Medicine

Hours:

N/A

The Chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences is the senior academic and operational leader responsible for designing, executing, and continuously improving the clinical education enterprise across the undergraduate medical education (UME) program. The Chair ensures excellence, consistency, and accountability in clinical teaching, faculty performance, and learner outcomes across all clinical sites, while advancing the College’s Christ-centered mission and strategic priorities.

• Upholds and advances the Christ-centered mission, vision, and values of Belmont University and FCoM.
• Develops and executes a multi-year strategic plan for the Department of Clinical Sciences that strengthens excellence in clinical teaching, scholarship, and community engagement.
• Establishes clear performance expectations, metrics and accountability structures for department success.
• Serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, contributing to policy development, strategic planning, resource prioritization, and operational effectiveness.
• Demonstrates future-oriented leadership—promotes teamwork, transparency, accountability, and candor; anticipates long-term implications in a rapidly evolving clinical environment; and aligns departmental priorities with college-wide goals.
• Promotes a culture of collaboration across academic and clinical departments.

• Provides academic leadership for all clinical science components across the four-year UME curriculum.
• Ensures alignment of clinical education with institutional learning objectives, LCME accreditation standards, and best practices in medical education.
• Supports effective teaching methodologies, robust assessment strategies, and integration of simulation, interprofessional learning, and technology-enhanced instruction.
• Oversees outcome monitoring, site evaluation processes, and continuous quality improvement across all clinical learning experiences.
• Partners with curriculum leadership to ensure intentional integration of clinical sciences with foundational sciences.
• Contributes to teaching in the medical program, including direct instruction, small-group facilitation, clinical skills teaching, and learner assessment as needed.
• Ensures that all clinical experiences provide appropriate supervision, patient exposure, and progressive responsibility.

• Leads the recruitment, onboarding, development, and evaluation of a distributed faculty workforce, including core and community-based clinical educators.
• Establishes standardized expectations for teaching performance, professionalism, and learner engagement across all faculty.
• Implements formal evaluation and feedback systems for faculty, including peer review, learner evaluations, and performance improvement processes.
• Partners with the Office of Faculty Success to support promotion, advancement, and remediation when necessary.
• Builds a culture of accountability, mentorship, and continuous professional development.

• Encourages and supports faculty participation in medical education research, clinical scholarship, quality improvement, and community-engaged scholarship.
• Collaborates with the Associate Dean for Research to connect faculty with mentorship, project development support, and training in research methods, compliance, and dissemination.

• Works with the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs to build and sustain…