Clinical Faculty in Clinical Medicine at PIH – Partners In Health: (Deadline ongoing)

University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) is on a mission to radically change the way health care is delivered around the world. UGHE is a new university based in Rwanda that is building the next generation of global health professionals’ doctors, nurses, researchers, and public health and policy experts into leaders and change-makers who strive to deliver more equitable, quality health services for all.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job Title: Clinical Faculty in Clinical Medicine – Assistant Professor and above level in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or Obstetrics/Gynecology

Reports to: Chair, Division of Clinical Education

Group/Department: Institute of Global Health Equity Research

Location:Mainly Butaro at the Butaro District Hospital

Role Purpose:The 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, Pediatrics or Obstetrics/Gynecology 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
• Informing the clinical coordinator of any 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 pediatric inpatient ward, general inpatient internal medicine ward and/or general OB/GYN inpatient ward
• Provide clinical coverage of the outpatient ambulatory clinic in internal medicine, OB/GYN or Pediatric.

Support of Visiting Faculty

• Integrate Visiting Faculty into the clinical education, research, and administrative functions of the Department of Internal medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics/Gynecology via delegation of tasks, and mentorship of any fellow in the specialty (these functions will be shared with the other faculty of the UGHE Department of Internal medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology or Pediatrics)

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 Pediatrics, Internal Medicine or Obstetrics/Gynecology
• 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 (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics or Obstetrics/Gynecology)
• 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 + Specialty in any of the following: Internal medicine, Pediatrics and Child Health, or Obstetrics and Gynecology)
• 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

UGHE is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Commitment to Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:

At UGHE, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including community members – as well as our students, contractors, staff and visitors to our campus are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment and any form of systemic abuse, whilst reducing risk and vulnerabilities. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with UGHE’s policy. UGHE will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of fraud, harassment, sexual harassment and any form of systemic abuse or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.