Clinical Faculty (Rank TBD)/Team Lead – Prosthodontics – 996358

About the role

This is a Team Leader role in the Department of Prosthodontics that provides high quality didactic and/or clinical instruction in the Predoctoral Clinic to ensure students meet course outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provides high quality instruction in the field of expertise, ensuring students meet course outcomes.
• Plans, evaluates course materials, and methods of instruction.
• Prepares course materials, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Identifies specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Initiates, facilitates, and moderates clinical discussions.
• Affords extra help to students who need it outside of class.
• Maintains student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Evaluates and grades students' class work and clinic work, assignments, and/or papers.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Maintains regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
• Acts as advisor to student organizations, ensuring adherence to college and university policies and procedures.
• Oversees and develops evidence-based treatment plans for assigned students patients.
• Makes sure assigned student progress is monitored to ensure student meets established clinical benchmarks.
• Conducts summative and formative assessments to determine students’ preparedness to challenge the Independent Clinical Performance Assessment (ICPA).
• Sets up new patients for D3 and D4 students to ensure well-rounded learning experience.
• Collaborates with Patient Management Coordinator (PMC) to ensure patients receive comprehensive dental care.
• Collaborates with Patient Management Coordinator to perform quarterly patient family review.
• Collaborates with Department Chairs to assure department protocols and policies are followed and implemented.
• Mentors other clinic faculty.
• Assesses clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
• Demonstrates patient care in clinical units of hospitals.
• Conducts research in a particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
• Reviews papers for publication in journals.
• Participates in campus and community events, such as giving presentations to the public.
• Identifies opportunities and provides service relating to fields of expertise for the benefit of internal and external communities.
• Collaborates with staff and colleagues to address teaching and research issues, and to improve students' learning experiences.
• Serves on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Requirements

• Meet minimum requirements:
  • Professional doctoral-level teaching experience or minimum of three (3) years of experience working in private practice.
  • For Assistant Professor rank: College-level teaching experience.
  • For Associate Professor rank: Continued professional growth and success in full-time university teaching for four (4) years at the rank of Assistant Professor; scholarly contributions to the university, higher education, or one's academic area(s) of specialization that have received peer recognition.
  • For Professor rank: Continued professional growth and success in full-time university teaching for five (5) years at the rank of Associate Professor; significant scholarly contributions to the university, higher education, or one's academic area(s) of specialization that have that have been recognized as substantial by one's peers.
  • Certificate in Prosthodontics from a CODA accredited program.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Dental Medicine - Comprehensive knowledge of the information/techniques needed in Dental Medicine.
• Knowledge of principles/methods for curriculum/training design/teaching for individuals/groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• English Language - Thorough knowledge of the structure/content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer Service - General knowledge of principles/processes for providing customer and personal services.
• Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic/reasoning to identify the strengths/weaknesses of alternative solutions/approaches to problems.
• Judgment/Decision Making — Considering the relative costs/benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand, asking questions as appropriate.
• Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop/evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences/paragraphs in work related documents.
• Learning Strategies — Selecting/using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning/teaching new things.
• Abilities Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information/ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read/understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information/ideas in writing.