Full-Time Coordinator of Clinical Education – Student Assessment
Job Description
Marist College
Coordinator of Clinical Education – Student Assessment
The Program of Physician Assistant Studies invites applications for the position of Coordinator of Clinical Education – Student Assessment. This role is primarily responsible for monitoring student progress in meeting rotation and program objectives throughout the clinical year.
In addition, the Coordinator of Clinical Education – Student Assessment participates in activities that promote the stature of the Physician Assistant Program and Marist College and abide by the mandates set by the ARC-PA, the Program Director, the Dean, and the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
The Coordinator of Clinical Education – Student Assessment is a faculty appointment with duties to be performed on a twelve-month/year-round basis. The successful candidate must maintain individual records of their clinical practice and/or professional advancement and contribution which must be communicated with the Program Director and updated annually.
Minimum Qualifications:
Master’s degree; New York State license; NCCPA certification or equivalent.
Essential Functions:
Student Assessment:
- Prepare and update syllabi and learning objectives for courses in the clinical phase of the program.
- Provide on-site evaluation of students in clinical rotations, including assessment of student progress toward meeting rotation-specific objectives and level of mastery of curriculum competencies.
- Monitor individual student progress during the clinical year.
- Oversee “call back” sessions during the clinical year
- Including:
- Develop learning objectives and patient scenarios for Objective Standardized Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).
- Train and manage standardized patients.
- Set learning goals and coordinate guest lectures
- Schedule agendas
- Including:
- Monitor benchmarks for standardized PAEA end-of rotation exams and revise as needed.
- Ensure appropriate administration of end-of-rotation examinations and participate in the remediation process of students when required.
- Facilitate the registration process of clinical year courses for students during the clinical year.
- Review the Clinical Year Manual annually and revise as needed.
- Co-coordinate annual “clinical year orientation”.
- Maintain availability to clinical year students regarding their performance during the clinical rotations.
Other Duties:
- Collaborate with the Coordinator of Clinical Education (site maintenance), with whom they bear responsibility for the entire clinical year.
- Assist the Coordinator of Clinical Education (site maintenance) in site acquisition.
- Assume the duties of the Coordinator of Clinical Education (site maintenance) in their absence.
- Serve as a faculty advisor for students.
- Participate in PA Program and College-wide committee(s).
- Participate in the duties necessary for program maintenance of accreditation.
- Foster student achievement, persistence and success.
- Proactively work with students who are at risk of not performing to their potential.
- Assure that programmatic institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes assessment is conducted and that the results of the assessment lead to meaningful instructional development.
- Other responsibilities as determined by the Program Director.
Preferred Qualifications:
Doctoral degree; Three years administrative and/or teaching experience in a university system; Experience in a simulation laboratory.
About Marist
Located on the banks of the historic Hudson River, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, and at its Florence, Italy campus, Marist College is a comprehensive, independent institution grounded in the liberal arts. Its mission is to “help students develop the intellect, character, and skills required for enlightened, ethical, and productive lives in the global community of the 21st century.” Marist is consistently recognized for excellence by The Princeton Review (Colleges That Create Futures and The Best 385 Colleges), U.S. News & World Report (10th Best Regional University/North, 5th Most Innovative School/North), Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (“Best College Values”), and others. The College is top-ranked for long-term study abroad (#4 in the U.S.) by the U.S. State Department’s Open Doors report. Marist educates more than 5,000 traditional-age undergraduate students and 1,400 adult and graduate students in 47 undergraduate majors and numerous graduate programs, including fully online MBA, MPA, MS, and MA degrees, and also Doctor of Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant programs. To learn more, please visit https://www.marist.edu/about
Applications
To learn more or to apply, please visit https://www.marist.edu/careers. Only online applications are accepted.
Marist College is strongly committed to the principle of diversity and is especially interested in receiving applications from members of ethnic and racial minority groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and persons from other under-represented groups.
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