Principal Faculty, Assistant/Associate Professor - PA Program
Listed on 2026-10-11
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Education / Teaching
University Professor, Academic
Summary:
30% Administrative / 70% Teaching, Scholarship, Service - Under the supervision of the Program Director, the PA Principal Faculty member is responsible for teaching, service, scholarship, and administrative elements within the Physician Assistant Program.
Duties and Responsibilities:PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide classroom instruction preparing and presenting relevant, current course content as instructor of record and guest lectures in other courses as needed.
- Developing, reviewing and revising as necessary the mission statement, goals and competencies of the program.
- Participate in student recruitment, admission, and selection process.
- Evaluating student performance.
- Participate in curriculum committee, provide input to facultyin designing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the curriculum.
- Performing student advisement and academic counseling.
- Participate with student remediation activities as required.
- Support with data collection, analysis, and determination ofactions for evaluation in the Program.
- Faculty need to be available on site for students and events as necessary.
- Post and maintain office hours of 4 hours a week with anaverage of 3 days each week on campus.
- Compose, edit and continually review information for the PAStudent Handbook.
- Review educational literature and learning media to keep abreast of new teaching/learning strategies.
- Help develop, implement and modify as necessary academic calendars for didactic students.
- Help participate orientation program of incoming class.
- Help coordinate, prepare, and administer preclinical summativeexamination, final summative examination, and OSCEexaminations.
- Effective budget management.
- Help to monitor program academic integrity.
- Maintain collaborative external relationships to facilitate valuable clinical experiences and community relationships. Provide sat least one introduction to DCE for a new preceptor or site annually.
- Help with student job placement and alumni relations.
- Participates in various community and civic activities.
- Participate in scholarly activity .
The responsibilities are intended to be examples of duties and arenot intended to be all-inclusive. There may be other duties as assigned. Assignments may be adjusted at the discretion of the Program Director and the Dean.
Minimum Qualfications- Nationally certified, state licensed physician assistant.
- Minimum of a Master's degree.
- 2 years clinical experience or in teaching in an academic setting.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to utilize statistical software and apply analytics.
- Strong critical thinking, organization, and problem solving skills.
- Proficient written and verbal language skills.
- Competent in working with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
- 2 years experience in teaching in an academic setting.
- Actively practices medicine.
- Expertise in teaching physical diagnosis, varieties of clinical medicine topics, pharmacotherapeutics and/or running labgroups.
- Doctoral degree in health care related field
Office
Location:
Oakland Campus – Onsite
- This is an onsite position based in Oakland, CA, requiringregular in-office presence to support daily operations,collaboration, and student or team engagement.
- Work is performed primarily on campus in a dynamic academic environment, with direct interaction across multidisciplinary teams.
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person, video and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Employee Status:Regular
Exemption Status:United States of America (Exempt)
Time Type:Full time
Pay Range:Up to…
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