COM-Assistant​/Associate​/Professor of Medicine Division Head Behavioral Health

All Jobs > COM-Assistant/Associate/Professor of Medicine Division Head for Behavioral Health .25 FTE

COM-Assistant/Associate/Professor of Medicine Division Head for Behavioral Health .25 FTE
Yakima
• COM

Part-time

Description

Salary Information:
Annual Salary Range -$ -$.

Assistant Professor:
Annual Minimum Salary-$158,300-Annual Maximum Salary-$266,000

Hiring Rate:
Commensurate with qualifications and experience

Hybrid Position

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) was founded as a 501(c) (3) non-profit medical institution in 2005 aimed at increasing access to health care in medically underserved areas of the Pacific Northwest.

The University currently offers the degrees of Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Doctor of Dental Medicine, Master of Biomedical Sciences, and Master of Science in Occupational Therapy enrolling over 550 students annually. Interprofessional education partnerships with other universities adds another 100 students to the population. The campus includes 300 employees with academic programming spread over a five-state region.

PNWU is located in Yakima, WA, a city of approximately 95,000 located in the south central part of the state near the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in a major agricultural and outdoor recreation region. It is approximately 140 miles from Seattle, 170 miles from Portland, and 200 miles from Spokane. The Yakima Valley is a wonderful place to live, work and play.

For more information, visit  .

The assistant/associate/professor and division head will be assigned teaching, scholarly activity, service, and clinical practice responsibilities as a faculty member in the department. This position reports to the Department Chair of Medicine. The faculty member is in a non-tenured position with a focus on teaching in the College of Osteopathic Medicine program. This position participates and assists the Department Chair and colleagues in the development and implementation of curricula which integrate the medical specialties in team-based, large and small group learning environments.

Primary teaching assignments include clinical skills and decision making, topics relevant to the practice of primary care and psychiatry, and how these skills, decisions and practices are supported by evidence from basic sciences. Most teaching will occur in the classroom for systems based courses, however, the professor may be assigned lectures in clinical didactics and clinical skills discussion groups, simulations, and labs, at the discretion of the department Chair.

The professor may be required to teach up to 25 contact hours at 25% FTE. Professor must be on campus for 75% of systems course lectures. Typical responsibilities for this position primarily include classroom teaching for students in the second year of medical school, writing letters of reference (LORs) to support the application of fourth year students for psychiatry residencies, writing letters to support the application of students for visiting student learning opportunities (VSLO), curriculum development for behavioral health both in the behavioral health course and as it relates to the practice of medicine generally.

• Continuously prepares and teaches assigned course
• Student advisement/office hours
• Serves as co-director of the behavioral health course
• Administration of examinations
• Clinical practice as appropriate
• Writes LORs and VSLO letters, as described above
• Understands accreditation standards and expectations specific to the department and adheres to policies and procedures to meet or exceed such standards
• Conducts self appropriately and consistently in accordance with the philosophy and mission of PNWU
• Other duties as assigned