Principal Faculty – Physician Assistant Department

D’Youville University is seeking a 12 -month clinical or tenure track faculty, at the rank of clinical assistant or assistant professor, respectively.  The faculty member will be responsible for teaching 24 credit hours across the PA curriculum, advising students, serving the program, university and community, and engaging in professional development and scholarship.

Top candidates will be sensitive to academic, economic, and cultural needs of students historically underrepresented in health professions. Candidates of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

The candidate must be a graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program, be NCCPA certified and licensed to practice in New York State.  Three years of clinical experience is required; teaching experience strongly preferred.  A master’s degree is required, a doctoral degree is preferred. Qualified candidates must show evidence of good moral character, strong work ethic, flexibility, ability to collaborate with inter-professional team members and an interest in working with high-achieving ethnically diverse students. Graduates of an accredited Physician Assistant program, NCCPA certified and licensed to practice in New York State is preferred.  As a principal faculty member performance will be evaluated in these domains: teaching, service, and scholarship and professional development.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Teaching

Responsible to teach didactic, clinical, and/or graduate level courses
Foster an inclusive and collaborative course environment
Develop and implement course assignments and deliver learning activities that permit measurement of course student learning outcomes
Assist with remediation of didactic and clinical year students
Assist with proficiency testing of clinical year students
Conduct board review sessions for clinical year students
Offer office hours
Work synergistically with student support programs at the university

Scholarship and Professional Activity

Participate in continuing education, presentations, contributions to publications and leadership in professional organizations or other demonstration of scholarly work
Engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion training.

Service

Participate on program committees (accreditation, curriculum development, student progress, admissions, advisement, etc.)
Serve on Faculty Senate or other university level committees (i.e. curriculum, policies), school-wide task forces, standing committees, and/or work-groups
Participate in department and university service-learning initiatives and professional development in both the discipline and as an educator
Participate in professional organizations, community outreach efforts and civic service groups
Participate in recruitment events and other events of the department
Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Providing academic counseling of students as needed; designing, implementing, coordinating, and evaluating curriculum as needed; evaluating the program; selecting applicants for admission to the PA program; developing, reviewing, and revising, program goals and outcomes; identifying new clinical placement sites and conducting clinical site visits.