Director, Clinical Skills, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

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Position Title: Director, Clinical Skills, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

School/Division: School of Medicine

Full Time/Part Time: Full-Time

Description:

• Develops, implements, and refines innovative assessments of clinical competence, including history-taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis development, oral and written presentations, and patient-centered communication across the four-year medical education program.
• Collaborates with Clinical Skills Center staff at CLI to establish and enhance a standardized patient program and ongoing quality improvement initiatives.
• Leads the Clinical Learning Integration team, ensuring synergy and integration across all phases of medical education.
• Contributes to the development and revision of learning objectives and session design for physical diagnosis, clinical learning, clinical reasoning, oral presentations, and clinical documentation.
• Develops formative and summative clinical skills assessments in partnership with course, clerkship, and component directors.
• Provides feedback on student performance to faculty for continuous quality improvement of clinical curricula and assessment.
• Coordinates RIA simulation and OSCE case topics with MHDI course directors in the first 100 weeks.
• Oversees scoring of assessments within the clinical skills domain.
• Collaborates with the Office of Educational Data and Analytics to refine standards for clinical skills assessments and monitor student progress in achieving milestones.
• Supervises clinical skills faculty team members.
• Provides orientation and ongoing faculty development for clinical skills educators to support effective teaching and assessment.
• Oversees coaching and remediation for students needing additional support.
• Serves as Family Head, facilitating Communications, Clinical Learning, and Patient, Physician, and Society (PPS) sessions, as well as precepting clinical skills exams.
• Facilitates physical diagnosis sessions.
• Participates as teaching faculty in simulation debriefs, core learning, ACE rounds, PEARLS, and Structure as needed.
• Attends faculty development sessions.
• Engages in medical education scholarship related to curricular work.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree required.
• Minimum of three years of supervisory or managerial experience in a clinical setting.
• Experience instructing medical students in clinical skills, including history-taking, physical examination, patient communication, clinical reasoning, oral presentations, medical documentation, and Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).
• Ability to contribute to multidisciplinary medical instruction in both small and large group settings, as well as in planning and executing assessments.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple roles within the School of Medicine curriculum.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse populations and implement goal-driven programs.

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