Critical Care Clerkship Director

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversight of the design and delivery of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience for students in the individualization phase of the curriculum.
• Teaching principles of resuscitation, ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, multidisciplinary care, and ethical decision-making in critically ill patients.
• Ensuring alignment with AAMC and LCME standards for advanced clinical rotations.
• Coordination of experiences across ICU sites.
• Ensuring student exposure to diverse pathologies and procedures.
• Mentoring students in complex clinical reasoning, interprofessional communication, and transitions of care.
• Collaboration with Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology faculty to promote consistency in procedural and critical thinking skills development across the curriculum.
• Serving as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee.
• Regular attendance at monthly clerkship directors' meetings and previous stated curriculum committees.

Competencies and Expectations

• Maintain board certification (or board eligibility, if appropriate) through the appropriate specialty board.
• Understand school-wide educational goals for students as outlined in student handbooks.
• Communicate specific curricular goals of the respective department and FCoM clearly to students and faculty.
• Manage a program with appropriate administrative skills, including scheduling for students and faculty.
• Achieve and demonstrate consistency in curriculum and learner assessment across multiple clinical sites.
• Manage a credible, consistent, and fair process of student assessment and grading that will meet legal and accreditation standards and be completed in a timely manner in collaboration with the Offices of Medical Education (OME) and the Office of Student Affairs and Belonging (OSAB).
• Provide feedback to individual students and faculty in a skilled manner.
• Analyze multiple sources of program evaluation data (e.g., student evaluations, experience and procedure reports, etc.) to effect continuous educational quality improvement.
• Collaborate with other educational leaders to continually improve the education program.
• Aid in the development and implementation of remediation for students who do not successfully pass the clerkship.
• Provide skilled career counseling that includes knowledge of residency programs in specialty.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with students and faculty.
• Advise the department chair and leaders of medical student education on educational policy and strategic planning, with attention to anticipated changes in resources and community/societal needs.

Expected Productivity

• Regular communication with department/curriculum support regarding schedules and rotation requirements.
• Regular communication with and supervision of key departmental faculty at each clinical site.
• Regular reports to the respective departments on curricular issues, faculty contributions, adequacy of patient load for each clerkship site, and student performance.
• Letters of recommendation as requested for students applying to residency programs.
• Regular attendance (75%) at all required curriculum meetings and department meetings.
• Attendance at annual FCoM education retreats.
• Meeting with each clinical site at least annually.

Required Qualifications

• A Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree;
• Board certification in a relevant specialty;
• A minimum of 5-7 years of clinical practice experience is required.
• This ensures that the candidate has sufficient practical experience to guide students effectively, and academic experience.
• Preferred: Experience in academic medicine is ideal but not a requirement; including teaching medical students and/or residents. This typically ranges from 3-5 years.

Required Education

• A Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree;
• Board certification in a relevant specialty.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 5-7 years of clinical practice experience is required.
• This ensures that the candidate has sufficient practical experience to guide students effectively, and academic experience.
• Preferred: Experience in academic medicine is ideal but not a requirement; including teaching medical students and/or residents. This typically ranges from 3-5 years.