Professor - Assistant, Associate, Full

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better.

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of a positive change.

This is an open rank job posting. We are hiring Professors at the Assistant, Associate, and Full level.

• Assistant Professor
  - Starting at $ Annually
• Associate Professor
  - Starting at $ Annually
• Full Professor
  - Starting at $ Annually

A day in the life of an Assistant Professor at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Teaches in the School of Medicine's highly integrated 3+1 curriculum, which features a 3-year core curriculum followed by an individualized 4th year program.
• Plays a central role in the pre-clerkship program, delivers basic science content in the context of its clinical relevance and uses active learning methods that support lifelong learning.
• Develops and delivers Phase 3 electives for fourth-year students, drawing on basic science and translational expertise.
• Serves on School committees and pertinent work groups, initiates active membership in related professional/academic organizations.
• Participates in the ongoing assessment, evaluation, and improvement of curriculum content, maintains course material at the highest level and ensures it reflects what medical students need to know.
• Advises and supports students on curricular and academic matters, including, but not limited to approaches to learning, content understanding, examination preparation, and research or scholarly pursuits, with attention to each student’s personal and professional development.
• Assists in LCME, MSCHE, OSHE, NJ-BME, and DOE accreditation activities.
• Engages in scholarship and research to advance medical education and scientific knowledge.
• Performs other faculty duties and assumes academic roles commensurate with rank and experience.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

• Ph.D., Ph.D. equivalent, M.D., M.D. equivalent or D.O. with specialization in a basic science field.
• Expertise in one or more of the following:
  Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology, Immunology, Microbiology, Genetics, Anatomy, Neuroanatomy, or a related basic science discipline.
• Familiarity with translational science and an ability to connect basic science to its clinical application in teaching.
• Evidence of excellence in teaching, or demonstrated potential to teach effectively, in undergraduate medical education and/or other biomedical science settings.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office platforms.

• Experience, or demonstrated potential, in team-based, problem-based and case-based learning with students in both large and small class settings.
• Publications, presentations, extramural grant funding, patents or research activity in a relevant basic science or translational field or demonstrated activity potential to develop a scholarly profile (regional, national, or international reputation).
• Demonstrated ability, or the potential, to use active learning methods effectively in a medical education setting.
• Demonstrated experience and ability, or the potential, to develop integrated medical science course materials for pre-clerkship medical students, with an understanding of both basic science and its clinical relevance.
• Knowledge across more than one basic science area - such as cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, physiology, or pharmacology - and an…