Faculty, Bioethics and Professionalism

Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) is seeking a highly qualified educator with broad training and demonstrated experience or enthusiasm for teaching in a medical school curriculum. This position is a tenure track, 12-month appointment on the Savannah, Georgia campus. Additional duties will be required/assigned during the summer. The departmental assignment will be based on degree type and experience.
** Responsibilities**:

The Mercer University School of Medicine has three four year- medical school campuses located in Macon, Georgia:
Savannah, Georgia; and Columbus Georgia. The candidate for this position will be based primarily in savannah though there is an expectation that all bioethics and professionalism faculty will teach on all three campuses both virtually and physically. The selected candidate will work closely with the Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities (Brian H. Childs, PhD—for inquires email childs _bh) and the other faculty in the department in creating an integrated ethics and humanities curriculum in both the pre-clinical and clerkship years.

Faculty are engaged in a variety of pedagogical modes including Team Based Learning and Problem Based Learning. In addition, the selected candidate will be involved in special programs such as faculty development in ethics education, teaching and grand rounds in our affiliated medical centers, sponsoring student projects and research in bioethics and the medical humanities, as well as faculty committee participation.

The department also sponsors a four-year certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities which is open to select students beginning in the second semester of the first pre-clinical year.
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* Qualifications:

** Candidates must:* + Hold a terminal degree (PhD, JD, DBe, MD, DO or Equivalent) from an accredited college/university in an appropriate discipline.  + Demonstrated Training in Ethics Consultation  + A Commitment to the Mission of Mercer University School of Medicine  + Excellent Writing and Communication Skills  + Research and Teaching in the Medical Humanities

Preferred Qualifications:

* + Experience in the Care of the Rural and Underserved  + A Record of Scholarship and Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education  + Certification as a Clinical Ethics Consultant (HEC-C)
The ideal candidate will have:* + Experience independently developing learning resources, independently develop and facilitate large group interactive learning sessions, develop items for assessment of student learning;  + Experience as a tutor/facilitator of small group interdisciplinary case-based learning sessions in a clinically oriented medical curriculum.  + Faculty members are expected to participate broadly across the curricula in both the medical and graduate programs, engage in scholarship in areas of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, which includes responsibilities for the four year certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities, as well as interdisciplinary work with the law school, nursing school, pharmacy school and the school of theology.
** Additional Information
** The Doctor of Medicine curriculum has been organized and designed to support the mission of the school to train physicians to meet the healthcare needs of rural and other underserved areas of Georgia. The curriculum is patient-centered, providing early application of medical and clinical knowledge in a variety of classroom and clinical venues. The program fosters the development of independent, life-long  addition to the Doctor of Medicine program, the medical school also offers the following degrees: a PhD in Biomedical Sciences;

a Master’s in Biomedical Sciences; a Doctor of Philosophy in Rural Healthcare Sciences; and a Master’s in Family Therapy.

For over thirty years, MUSM has focused on training medical students to fulfill MUSM’s mission of preparing healthcare professionals to meet the primary care and health care needs of rural and underserved Georgia residents and communities. Emphasizing interactive and problem-based teaching strategies, our student-centered faculty provides a conceptual and practical foundation that equips graduates to be discerning consumers and innovative producers of knowledge across a variety of medical and community settings, as well as academic institutions.

Through teaching, scholarship, and service, students and faculty work closely to have local, regional, national, and international impact.
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