Job ID: 249438

Pediatrician and Clerkship Director - Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor, Pediatrics

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

  • Nov. 22, 2024
 
  • Pediatrician and Clerkship Director - Clinical Assistant or Associate Professor, Pediatrics
  • Pediatrics
  • University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
    Buffalo, NY
 
  • Open until filled
  • Available immediately
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  • Assistant Professor
    Associate Professor
  • Pediatrics - All Categories
 
 
The University at Buffalo (UB) Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Office of Medical Education, and UBMD Pediatrics is actively recruiting for a pediatrician to serve as Pediatric Clerkship Director in the Department of Pediatrics. The ideal candidate will be board certified in pediatrics and spend 0.70 FTE in their clinical care sub-specialty, and dedicate 0.30 FTE towards academic clerkship for the department.

The role of a Pediatric Clerkship Director is crucial in shaping the educational experience of medical students during their pediatric clerkship.

Responsibilities, qualifications, and support systems associated with this position include:
  • Curriculum Oversight: Oversees the curriculum for medical students during their pediatric rotation. This includes designing educational content, coordinating clinical experiences, and ensuring alignment with learning objectives.
  • Clinical Supervision: Provide guidance and supervision to students during their pediatric clerkship. This involves facilitating clinical rounds, case discussions, and hands-on patient care.
  • Assessment and Evaluation: The director assesses students’ performance, conducts evaluations, and provides feedback. They may also contribute to the development of assessment tools.
  • Faculty Development: Supporting faculty development is essential. The director helps train and mentor other educators involved in the clerkship.
  • Collaboration: They collaborate with other faculty members, department chairs, fellow educators and hospital administrators to enhance the clerkship experience.
  • Support systems exist through professional development, networking, and institutional support. Extensive clinical experience is essential as well as effective leadership skills. Prior teaching experience, especially in medical education, is valuable.

Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about our benefit packages.

UBMD Pediatrics
UBMD Pediatrics is one of 18 practice plans within UBMD Physicians’ Group, the single largest medical group in Western New York. We provide premier health care to infants, children, adolescents and adults. In addition to primary care pediatrics, we have 17 pediatric subspecialties. Our physicians make up the academic teaching faculty within the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo and at Oishei Children’s Hospital. For more information regarding UBMD Pediatrics, please visit UBMD Pediatrics.

About The University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo (UB) #ubuffalo is one of America’s leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day. Visit our website to learn more about the University at Buffalo.

About Buffalo, NY
Buffalo is a city with a rapidly growing economy, eclectic neighborhoods, world-class art galleries and museums, a vibrant theater and music community, the Lake Erie waterfront, a city-wide system of parks designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and major and minor league sports teams. The awe-inspiring Niagara Falls is just 20 minutes away. The Jacobs School of Medicine is located downtown as part of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, an area that combines outstanding public schools and services with a surprisingly low cost of living. For more information, please visit the Beautiful Buffalo Niagara website.

University at Buffalo seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Buffalo, to maintain the excellence of the university and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives and ways of knowing and learning. UB welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

 
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