Assistant Professor; Anatomist; Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics

Position: Assistant Professor (Anatomist) - Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics
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POSITION SPECIFICS The Penn State College of Medicine seeks a creative anatomist educator at the rank of assistant professor, non-tenure track, and with the opportunity for promotion, based at the medical school’s central campus in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The anatomist will join a team of anatomy faculty who teach gross anatomy and related coursework to Medical Students, Physician Assistant (PA) students, Anatomy PhD students, and Residents;

and with opportunities to teach other learners. The primary responsibility for the anatomist will be the continued development and running of an innovative clinical anatomy curriculum for the College of Medicine’s PA students. The anatomist will organize and lead the PA program anatomy and run the gross anatomy labs with the help of the Penn State College of Medicine Anatomy Graduate students.

As needed, other anatomists from the Human Structure Program (Anatomy) will provide support. The anatomist will have responsibility for the PA anatomy exams and will be expected to teach some lectures while delegating other lectures to the Graduate Anatomy Students who function as TAs for the PA anatomy courses. The anatomist also will work directly with the Anatomy Graduate Students, and in coordination with senior anatomy faculty, to help them prepare for teaching the PA anatomy lectures and labs.

The anatomist will receive support from the Director of the PA program to ensure the exams, labs, lectures, etc. are consistent with the accrediting criteria for the PA program. The anatomist will have opportunities to work with course directors for both the MD and PA programs, and with the Director of the Anatomy Graduate Program, to ensure and facilitate appropriate integration.

Further responsibilities may include collaboration with faculty members from the Human Structure (Anatomy) team in the teaching of ultrasound, embryology, histology and in the third year, the integrated science sessions that have been designed to spiral basic science learning in the clerkship setting. Within the fourth year, interdisciplinary musculoskeletal and neuroscience anatomy electives are well established along with opportunities for the design of additional interdisciplinary anatomy electives.

The Anatomy teaching faculty position is a fully funded educational role and reports to the Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, and functions under the Director of the Graduate Program in Anatomy and the Director of the Program on Education in Human Structure. The many opportunities available for scholarship and research in anatomy and medical education are highly encouraged.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. or equivalent in Anatomy or a related field with a minimum of 2 years teaching experience including full human dissection.

Additional experience teaching embryology and histology is a plus.

BACKGROUND CHECKS/CLEARANCES This position requires the following clearances in addition to applicable background checks: PA State Police Criminal Background Check, PA Child Abuse History Clearance Form, and Federal (FBI) Fingerprint Criminal Background Check.

BENEFITSPenn State provides a competitive benefits…