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SalaryUrological/Urogenital Teaching Associates (UTAs) are trained to guide medical students as those students perform urogenital (penis, teste, scrotum) and rectal (prostate) examination techniques on the UTA's body.
No prior experience is necessary; we provide comprehensive training!
The Role
UTAs first lead a lecture/discussion while professionally dressed, following a standard curriculum that addresses the communication and technical skills necessary to provide a comprehensive clinical exam. Afterwards, the UTA changes into a medical gown and provides active guidance while each learner performs the urologic exam on the UTA’s body. Urologic exam procedures include assessing lymph nodes, ruling out hernias, and examining the scrotum, testes, penis, and prostate - a more detailed outline can be provided upon inquiry.
An exceptional degree of professionalism, patience, and capacity for precise communication are necessary to perform this work satisfactorily. Teaching in this manner is physical and requires much comfort with one’s body and with anatomical language.
There are compelling reasons people chose this work. Many UTAs view it as a form of public service or activism, promoting inclusive, patient-centered and non-judgmental health care. Others are interested in the medical field or generally enjoy teaching. This role is adjacent to that of a Standardized Patient.
The Company
Project Prepare's goal is to train medical students and practicing physicians to provide outstanding patient care in reproductive and sexual health. We believe all people should receive gentle, non-judgmental, supportive medical care. We also believe medical students benefit tremendously from hands-on practice with individualized feedback, by approachable educators who represent the wide range of patients they'll work with.
Our work environment is inclusive, prizes consent and wellness, and benefits include:
- On-the-job training
- Flexible self-scheduling
- CalSavers IRA
- Paid Sick Time
Project Prepare has been a regional leader in reproductive health exam education since 1970. Institutions we teach at include Stanford, UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Touro University. We travel to work with other medical, nursing and osteopathy programs in Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada annually and are continually expanding our reach. Our mission is to reduce the level of anxiety medical and nursing students experience around performing these exams and reinforce mindful, thorough, and patient-centered exam technique.
With a small, diverse team of ~25 educators, we are deeply invested in each staff member’s wellbeing and suitability, and aim to retain employees for many years. We practice conscientious, approachable management and utilize peer support and training systems to foster a collaborative environment. Project Prepare encourages members of marginalized and historically disadvantaged communities to apply.
Compensation
UTA Teaching: $70.00 / hour; increases to $80.00 / hour after 12 months
Prerequisite Training: $20.00 - $35.00 / hour; approximately 20 hours
Seasonality & Commitment
This position is best suited to individuals with a great degree of flexibility and fondness for advance planning.
Project Prepare works at each medical school for a few days or weeks depending upon the number of students requiring training. Thus, work is scheduled far in advance but varies in time, place, and frequency from month to month. Each UTAs is expected to teach on 20 - 30 days each academic semester (i.e. 60 days annually). On each of those dates, the UTA teaches two sessions of 4 students each, over a total of 6 hours.
Qualifications
UTAs must be able to effectively establish rapport and maintain a welcoming, supportive environment that helps to alleviate students’ anxiety. Strong professional boundaries, self-awareness, and initiative reporting difficult sessions to a manager are essential. UTAs must be reliable, prepared to study and teach according to a detailed syllabus, communicate precisely, and be comfortable receiving genital and rectal exams by inexperienced clinicians-to-be.
All Project Prepare staff are expected to incorporate a patient-centered, consent-based, harm-reduction lens to their work. UTAs must be comfortable acknowledging the wide range of patient anatomy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender presentation clinicians will encounter with their patients, and to teach in a way that empowers students to engage respectfully and affirmatively with every patient.
Job Types: Part-time, Contract
Pay: $70.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Retirement plan
Application Question(s):
- Why are you interested in this role?
- Are you comfortable utilizing gender neutral language for various parts of the body, and individuals' requested pronouns? We'll provide guidance if you're not sure where to start!
- Each UTA is expected and able to teach on 20 - 30 days each academic semester (i.e. 60 days annually). On each of those dates, the UTA teaches two sessions of 4 students each, over a total of 6 hours. Does this work given your current commitments?
- Urologic exam procedures will require medical students to examine your scrotum, testes, penis, and prostate. Are you able to fulfill this requirement?
If not - there are other positions at Project Prepare; please seek our other postings.
Experience:
- Health or Sexuality Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- San Francisco Bay Area, CA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
