Requisition: 202400127S

Occupational Category (Staff Positions Only): Professional

Hiring Salary: Monthly-Staff

Department: Dept of Clinical Education

General Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Three years of experience in a related field. Previous experience in healthcare, communications, marketing, public relations, or comparable field preferred. Experience working within a healthcare institution and with physicians and members of a healthcare team is strongly preferred. A combination of education, experience, and training that would produce the required knowledge and abilities could be considered.

Nature & Purpose of Position/Usual Duties:

Ensures a comparable clerkship education for SHSU College of Osteopathic Medicine medical students to include site recruitment, outreach, and development, scheduling, clerkship process improvement, and management of other clinical education initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities (Staff Positions Only):

Maintains and establishes professional connections with affiliated clinical faculty while sustaining a continuous cycle of recruitment of future affiliated clinical faculty and affiliated sites in the assigned region. Develops and maintains a professional relationship with all physician offices, staff, and hospital staff to ensure a successful teaching and learning environment is maintained at all times. Creates a welcoming learning environment for medical students from the SHSU College of Osteopathic Medicine ( COM ). Develops and maintains a strong rapport with SHSU COM students. Maintains a continuous schedule of contact and availability with students in assigned region(s). Provides professional and administrative support managing the day-to-day operations of assigned Osteopathic Medicine Student 3 (OMS3) and Osteopathic Medicine Student 4 (OMS4) year clerkship program(s). Assists in resolving scheduling conflicts to ensure each student’s schedule meets his/her clerkship requirements for graduation. Assists in the coordination and delivery of the Clerkship Preparation Program at the beginning of the OMS3 year. Facilitates the Clinical Site Orientations at the beginning of each rotation. Serves as a liaison between SHSU COM and the varied clinical sites where clerkships are occurring with regard to all third- and fourth-year rotation schedules. Facilitates student and faculty access to the online scheduling, evaluation, and advising software system. Provides assistance to students with questions and concerns related to the clerkships and to clinical site policies and procedures. Assists with coordination for COM lectures and lecturers. Schedules and assists with meetings, conferences and didactic sessions, additional learning opportunities, using web and teleconferencing technologies when needed. Schedules, administers, and proctors exams. Coordinates the collection, tracking, and reporting of evaluations and grades for clerkship programs using the DaVinci Leo evaluation system. Assists in establishing service-learning opportunities for medical students within their assigned regions. Contributes to the preparation of Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation ( COCA ) accreditation materials, when necessary. May assist with Graduate Medical Education ( GME ) development within the regional hospitals. Serves as the main point of contact and liaison between the SHSU - COM , the Office of Clinical Education, medical students, and clinical rotation sites (affiliated clinical faculty and hospital administration). Oversees and/or assists with coordinating programs for students, staff, and faculty concerning clerkship education for the third and fourth years. Performs other related duties as assigned.