Faculty, Biomedical Sciences Microbiology

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Responsibilities:

Teaching faculty will play a key role in the continued development and implementation of an integrated cross-disciplinary curriculum that includes small and large group case-based and team-based learning and other active teaching-learning methods.

Successful candidates will have a strong record of scholarly activity and evidence of medical or graduate teaching expertise in the Microbiology and/or Immunology discipline.

Applications for full-time faculty at the Instructor Assistant Associate or Full Professor rank will be considered. For over thirty years MUSM has focused on training medical students to fulfill MUSMs 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.

Qualifications:

Candidates must:

• Hold a terminal degree (M.D or equivalent Ph.D.) from an accredited college/university in an appropriate discipline.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in health professions education particularly with utilizing active learning methods in teaching biomedical sciences in one of the three areas/disciplines listed above;

• Experience independently develop learning resources independently develop and facilitate large group interactive learning sessions develop items for assessment of student learning and serve as a discipline representative in the applicants respective specialty;

• Experience as a tutor/facilitator of small group interdisciplinary case-based learning sessions in a clinically oriented pre-clerkship medical curriculum.

• Applicants applying for Associate or Full Professor ranks should have a strong record of medical school teaching in large and small group settings.

• Faculty members are expected to participate broadly across the curricula in both the medical and graduate programs engage in scholarship in areas of biomedical science medical education or community-oriented research and serve on departmental school-wide or other committees as designated.

Background Check Contingencies:
- Criminal History

Required Document Attachments:
- Resume/CV
- Cover letter
- List of three professional references with contact information

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