Pre-Clerkship Curriculum Manager

As the anchor of its academic core, Wake Forest University School of Medicine drives Advocate Health's mission to improve health for all by nurturing exceptional and diverse healthcare leaders who prioritize equity and excellence. The Pre-clerkship Curriculum Manager will be instrumental in helping us prepare the next generation of healthcare leaders through the MD Program.

In this role, you will serve as an educational specialist and consultant, collaborating with faculty to implement and evaluate essential academic components and educational objectives in our medical school curriculum. You will play a key role in overseeing daily operations, including curriculum implementation and staff management. Your expertise will be crucial in driving the development of new educational initiatives and maintaining consistency in our program. 

While this position is based in Winston-Salem, this is an exciting time to join the MD Program as we build a new school of medicine campus in Charlotte. 

One School, One Mission, Growing Reach, Global Impact.

An ideal candidate will have the following education/experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Health or other related field with two years' experience in academic medicine required.  Master's degree in related field preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Responsible for staff oversight, including hiring, promoting, and annual performance reviews for staff.
2. Actively participates and contributes to the decision making as a member of the curriculum committees. Advise on operations of implementing curricular elements, including design, delivery, and assessment.
3. Responsible for the design, development and implementation of curricular initiatives in collaboration with the Faculty.
4. Provides staff development to departmental staff, small group and teaching faculty on educational initiatives and LCME accreditation issues.
5. Monitors curricular and evaluation activities and makes recommendations for standardization across the curriculum.
6. Provides direct management and oversight of the Medical Education staff Coordinators to ensure teaching faculty and staff have resources required to meet curricular requirements.
7. Reviews curricular components on a continual basis (Quality Assurance) to ensure consistency is met regarding goals, objectives, instruction, orientations and faculty and student evaluations. In collaboration with the Associate Deans for Medical Education, make recommendations for changes or improvements based on outcome data.
8. Trains, coaches, and monitors individual staff coordinators in implementing systems to optimize the curriculum experiences.
9. Coordinates with various educational departments to implement and optimize curricular events.
10. Oversees and manages scheduling systems. Responsible for coordination with student groups and UME curriculum to ensure minimal scheduling conflicts and address scheduling needs.
11. Recruits and coordinates faculty facilitators for courses and evaluation activities. In collaboration with the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, responsible for payment of facilitators.
12. Manages the updating, and maintaining of the curricular components of the technology delivery programs for the curriculum. Make recommendations for changes based on student needs as identified.
13. Maintains statistics and data on faculty participation in activities of the curriculum. Make recommendations based on identified trends.
14. Manages and coordinates large scale curriculum events, including assessment events and interprofessional events with other professional programs. Responsible for implementation of curriculum as necessary.
15. In collaboration with the Associate Deans for Medical Education, as well as the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, contributes to the development and management of budget expenditures.
16. Researches and attends local/national meetings related to the changing landscape of medical education and future healthcare workforce needs.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
2. Ability to communicate with individuals of diverse educational and cultural backgrounds
3. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team
4. Excellent computer skills
5. Good problem solving skills
6. Strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task
7. Ability to act as a department liaison

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Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. WFUSM, has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise.

Atrium Health is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. AHWFB is an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians.

Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing - for all.

It should be noted that while you are applying on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Career Site, you will receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process.  Thanks in advance for your flexibility.