Faculty, Biomedical Sciences - Immunology

About the role

Mercer University School of Medicine is seeking highly qualified educators with broad training and demonstrated experience or enthusiasm for teaching immunology in an integrated pre-clerkship medical school curriculum. This is a non-tenure track, 12‑month appointment on the Macon, GA campus, with additional duties assigned during the summer. Teaching faculty will play a key role in the continued development and implementation of an integrated, cross‑disciplinary curriculum that includes small and large group case‑based and team‑based learning, and other active teaching‑learning methods. Through teaching, scholarship, and service, students and faculty work closely to have local, regional, national, and international impact. Mercer University emphasizes interactive and problem‑based teaching strategies, providing a conceptual and practical foundation that equips graduates to be discerning consumers and innovative producers of knowledge across a variety of medical and community settings, as well as academic institutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated, cross‑disciplinary curriculum using small and large group case‑based, team‑based learning, and other active teaching‑learning methods.
• Participate broadly across the medical and graduate curricula.
• Engage in scholarship in biomedical science, medical education, or community‑oriented research.
• Serve on departmental, school‑wide, or other committees as designated.
• Perform additional duties assigned during the summer.

Qualifications

• Terminal degree (M.D. or equivalent, Ph.D.) from an accredited college/university in an appropriate discipline.
• Experience in health professions education, particularly utilizing active learning methods in teaching biomedical sciences.
• Ability to independently develop learning resources and facilitate large group interactive learning sessions.
• Experience developing assessment items for student learning.
• Experience serving as a discipline representative in one’s specialty.
• Experience as a tutor/facilitator of small group interdisciplinary case‑based learning sessions in a clinically oriented pre‑clerkship medical curriculum.
• For Associate or Full Professor consideration: strong record of medical school teaching in large and small group settings.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (self and dependents)
• Generous retirement contributions
• Tuition waivers
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Technology discounts
• Schedules that allow for work‑life balance

Schedule

Scheduled weekly hours: 40