Clinical Faculty, Internal Medicine

Description

Job Title: Internal Medicine Faculty – Assistant Professor and above level

Reports to: Chair, Division of Clinical Medicine

Group/Department: Division of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Global Health Equity

Location: Mainly Butaro at the Butaro District Hospital

Role Purpose: The Internal Medicine clinical faculty plays a vital role in the education of the UGHE MBBS/MGHD (“medical students”), nursing and other students. They are responsible for contributing to a learning environment that encourages knowledge of respect for and development of skills to transform the medical students into competent physicians. They will be responsible for curriculum and syllabus development, preparation of teaching materials, delivery of clinical teaching using several teaching techniques, student assessment, organization of clinical clerkships and for teaching (primarily in the clinical setting) in their area of specialty. Given UGHE follows an integrated curriculum and fosters inter-professional education, the faculty will also be required to participate in the teaching and assessment in basic medical education (pre-clinical teaching), and to teach across the various academic programs at UGHE.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 Student Education and Assessment 

• Contribute to curriculum development, teaching, and student assessment in the integrated Medical Sciences (Basic Medical sciences and Clinical Medicine) teaching of medical students
• Contribute to curriculum development in their specialty and related disciplines across the other UGHE programs such as Nursing and MGHD
• Serve as clinical educator in clinical and non-clinical settings (all didactic and non-didactic sessions to medical and other students at UGHE)
• Serve as educator in basic medical sciences division (all didactic and non-didactic sessions to medical and other students at UGHE)
• Serve as educator, mentor, and assessor in the teaching in their specialty at UGHE
• Oversee daily student activities in junior and senior Internal Medicine clerkship (including bedside rounds, discussions, tutorials, and other similarly related educational activities) in accordance with the UGHE clinical rotation curriculum
• Ensuring students are meeting rotation objectives
• Provision of direct clinical and in hospital instruction, small group facilitation and/or selected asynchronous educational activities for medical students in the clinical site
• Mentor students interested in learning more about the specialty
• Participate in planning and execution of formative and summative assessment of medical students
• Provide formative and summative feedback to students
• Supervising the clinical coordinator
• Working with the clerkship coordinator to identify and support students with academic or professional difficulty
• Discuss student progress at frequent intervals with relevant faculty at UGHE
• Engaging with students and involving them in selected hospital quality improvement initiatives
• Advocating for, clarifying learning goals, encouraging, and supporting other clinical staff (including nurses, technicians, paramedics & clinicians) to participate in and undertake teaching responsibilities as they manage patients

Clinical Service requirement 

• Provide clinical coverage to the general internal medicine inpatient ward
• Provide clinical coverage of the outpatient ambulatory clinic in internal medicine.

Support of Visiting Faculty 

• Integrate Visiting Faculty into the clinical education, research, and administrative functions of the Department of Internal medicine via delegation of tasks, and mentorship of any fellow or resident in the specialty

Administrative responsibilities: Administration of the clerkship including but not limited to:

• Creating or contributing to academic schedules and rotations
• Communicating with clerkship coordinator to ensure students have the appropriate clearance to be in a clinical setting
• Contribute to materials that support the goals and objectives of the clinical rotations (such as didactics, readings, and virtual resources)
• Create and contribute to reports on clerkship experiences in their department/unit
• Regular review of the learning environment evaluation and collaboratively working with the UGHE clinical department team to improve the learning environment
• Attendance and participation at meetings at the department, clerkship, and medical school level and during any relevant clinical site visit by the school leadership
• Be an integral member of the department of Internal Medicine
• Contribute to other UGHE responsibilities as assigned by the UGHE leadership

Research

• Participate in research in UGHE
• Actively look for funding opportunities to conduct research at the department of their specialty
• Support students and faculty interested in research

However, faculty may be assigned to a different location according to students’ rotation schedule

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE/SKILLS 

• MD or MBBS and Specialty training and certification in Internal medicine
• Proven experience as an academic faculty in a medical school for minimum of 3 years
• Proven training in medical education or health professional education (certificate, diploma and advanced)
• Experience in academic leadership (Course coordinator, department head, module director) is recommended.
• Fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda are a plus

Time allocation: 

To be determined depending on the specialty, with overall approximately 30-40% clinical and 60-70% teaching, administrative and research.