AssistantAssociateFull Teaching Professor Biochemistry

The John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering invites applications for a full-time benefits-eligible Assistant Associate or Full Teaching Professor to help shape a new kind of physician that is trained at the intersection of medicine and engineering. Our innovative curriculum brings together basic science clinical reasoning and systems thinking to prepare graduates to solve complex health challenges.

In this non-tenure-eligible role approximately 80% of effort is devoted to teaching and 20% to service. The appointment is renewable on a fiscal-year basis contingent upon satisfactory performance the availability of resources and institutional needs. Candidates must demonstrate a broad command of their discipline a strong record of excellence in medical school-level teaching and a genuine commitment to mentoring learners. We especially welcome applicants who are energized by working in a collaborative active-learning environment and who are eager to help build and refine a forward-looking engineering-informed medical curriculum.

About the School:

ASUs John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering was designed to drive this transformation by preparing physicians to lead change for a more effective resilient and responsive health care system.

Headquartered in downtown Phoenix the school will produce physicians who blend medicine engineering technology and humanities. Graduates will leverage new tools such as AI and data science to connect with more patients develop innovative practices and be equipped to treat more patients in novel ways.

The school is part of ASU Health a dynamic and comprehensive approach that focuses the nations most innovative university - Arizona State University - on the health needs and challenges of the state and the nation. ASU Health includes new schools increased focus in existing schools and centers new health initiatives and a statewide network of health clinics to better serve vulnerable populations while providing hands-on learning.

About ASU Health:

Arizona State University is accelerating its health-related efforts to tackle the states urgent health care needs now and into the future.

ASU is launching a new medical school creating a school for public health technology launching a health observatory developing the health care workforce and more. The charge is to address significant and growing health care needs and help improve health outcomes for families across Arizona.

ASU Health will transform how health care is designed delivered and measured while also producing new physicians nurses specialists technologists scientists all the groups that need to be focused every day on Arizonas health.

ASU Health will produce physicians who blend medicine engineering technology and humanities to become a different kind of health care leader. Graduates will leverage new tools such as AI and data science to connect with more patients seek innovative practices and improve health outcomes. We are working to find innovative ways to be impactful to families at home schools and school districts hospitals clinics pharmacies - everyone. To learn more about ASU Health visit Arizona State University:

Arizona State University rankedtheNo. 1 Most Innovative School in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for nine years in succession has forged the model for a New American University. Year after year ASU ranks at or near the top of the list in areas that matter. ASU is a comprehensive public research institution measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves. ASU operates on the principles that learning is a personal and original journey for each student; that they thrive on experience and that the process of discovery cannot be bound by traditional academic disciplines. Through innovation and a commitment to accessibility ASU has drawn pioneering researchers to its faculty even as it expands opportunities for qualified students attracting some of the highest-quality students from all 50 states and more than 130 nations.To learn more about ASU visit we do at ASU is guided and inspired by the ASU Charter which reads:

ASU is a comprehensive public research university measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

Successful candidates will demonstrate throughout their materials how their teaching and service will contribute to the fulfillment of this charter.

Essential Functions of the Position:

• Develop and deliver engaging instructional content in Biochemistry for the medical school curriculum.
• Incorporate evidence-based student-centered teaching strategies.
• Contribute to curricular development and academic innovation including active learning flipped-classroom case-based and team-based approaches.
• Collaborate with engineering faculty to integrate medical curricular content with engineering principles and promote interdisciplinary learning.
• Design and integrate learning technologies to support case-based and other active learning activities.
• Employ teaching methods such as case-based instruction large- and small-group discussion active learning lecture demonstration simulation and team-based learning.
• Develop assessment strategies and evaluate medical student performance using multiple methods including objective clinical examinations and clinical skills assessments with constructive feedback.
• Serve as block or course director as appropriate.
• Facilitate small-group sessions for active learning.
• Mentor and advise medical students to support their academic and professional growth.
• Engage in scholarly activity and research in medical education and related fields.
• Teach courses in relevant areas.
• Course development and modification in the essential functions.
• Monitor student progress.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. degree or terminal degree in any of the listed disciplines within the position description or a closely related field by the time of appointment. We will include M.D. under other terminal degrees in a required discipline.
• Experience teaching healthcare-related curriculum with expertise in biochemistry.
• Experience creating course curriculum and teaching with innovative instructional methods including using technology to supplement and improve pedagogy.
• Innovative instructional methodsinclude but are not limited to theimplementation ofdemonstrations simulationsactive learning flipped-classroom case-based and team-basedlearning methodologies.
• The successful candidatefor the rank ofTeaching Assistant Professorshould provide evidence of at least two (2) years of college or university level instruction
• The successful candidate for the rank of Teaching Associate Professor should provide evidence of at least five (5) years of college or university level instruction and evidence of successful mentoring both in formal (e.g. committees) and informal settings.
• The successful candidate in this rank of Teaching Full Professor should provide evidence of at least seven (7) years of college or university level teaching evidence of successful mentoring both in formal (e.g. committees) and informal settings and leadership in curriculum development programmatic responsibilities and departmental service responsibilities such as faculty committees.

Desired Qualifications

• 2 years of experience teaching healthcare-related curriculum.
• Strong commitment to education aligned with the mission and goals of the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering.
• Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative activities with other faculty and staff.
• Experience in molecular biology and genetics instruction.
• Experience developingand employingmethodologiesfor assessment. ofmedicalstudentperformanceincludingobjectiveclinicalexaminationsandscoringofclinicalskillswithfeedback.
• Experience supervising and mentoring graduate teaching assistants undergraduate teaching/learning assistants and instructional lab coordinators.
• Participation in the higher education community and professional development activities (for example postdoctoral teaching certificate programs authoring educational and scientific publications presenting at conferences etc.).

Teaching/Student evaluations may be required at the time of interview.