Graduate Medical Education Director jobs in Iowa

The Undergraduate Medical Education Director (UME Director) in the Department of Family Medicine is a critical leader within the Department’s educational enterprise. The UME Director reports directly to the Vice Chair for Education and provides functional supervision for the UME coordinator. This position comes with 40% protected FTE to perform the duties below.

The UME Director oversees the Core Family and Community Medicine Clerkship for the Carver College of Medicine. In this role, they are tasked with curriculum development and execution, facilitating group didactic education at the beginning of each clerkship rotation, developing community experiences, and coordinating end of rotation Objective Structured Clinical Experiences (OSCEs) for learners. Additionally, the UME Director works with each of the State’s Regional Medical Education Centers (RMECs) to ensure adequate and appropriate experiences for clerkship students.

The UME Director provides oversight for each of the Department’s advanced clinical electives. In some cases, they will serve as the director of those electives and in others they will provide support to another faculty member within the department.

The UME Director provides oversight for the Medical Education Community Orientation (MECO) program. The goals and objectives of MECO (Medical Education Community Orientation) are to introduce post-M1 medical students to the scope of health care in the hospital component of the health care delivery system. The MECO program also orients the student to the community and to the way in which the health care delivery system contributes to its structure and function. They receive experience with history taking and physical exams to prepare them for more of their clinical work in their M2 year. Students return from the experience refreshed and ready to take on their M2 year.

Finally, the UME Director works directly with the Family Medicine Interest Group Faculty Advisor to foster interest student interest in Family Medicine. The UME Director may provide additional undergraduate medical education support as directed by the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any misconduct history or pending research misconduct investigation including but not limited to sexual misconduct in prior employment and provide a related release and will be subject to a criminal background and credential check.

Demonstrated history of experience in undergraduate medical education

Demonstrated history of academic leadership

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