What are the responsibilities and job description for the Student Employment- Medical Prosector / Tutor position at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine?
JOB SUMMARY: Students will serve as cadaver prosectors with duties that include, but are not limited to, supervised dissection of cadavers used in teaching Clinical Human Anatomy Laboratory, maintenance of cadavers and cleanliness of the dissection instruments, as well as, facilities.
In addition, the student will serve as a tutor and will provide students who are failing a course or performing poorly in a course with instructional help outside of their normal classes. This assistance is typically provided to groups of five or less students but can be offered individually, if a group cannot be formed.
Prosectors / tutors are expected to work a minimum of 10 hours per week and no more than 20 hours per week.
CHARACTERISTIC JOB TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Promote and preserve the mission of LECOM;
- Act in a friendly, professional manner when dealing with faculty, students and visitors at all times;
- Maintain confidentiality, professional appearance and pleasant demeanor;
- Supervise dissection of cadavers used in teaching Clinical Human Anatomy Laboratory, maintenance of cadavers and cleanliness of the dissection instruments, as well as, facilities;
- Meet with those students, on an as needed basis, that have been assigned to them by the Coordinator of Student Tutoring; providing individual or group instruction that will help the student or students improve their performance;
- Student tutors should regularly provide the Coordinator of Student Tutoring with the names of those students who fail to attend scheduled sessions and those whose performance has improved to a level where tutoring assistance is no longer necessary;
- A tutor will report to the Coordinator of Student Tutoring;
- Prosectors / tutors are expected to work a minimum of 10 hours per week and no more than 20 hours per week;
- Weekly time sheets will be submitted to the Administrative Assistant to Pre-Clinical Education; and
Other duties as needed / assigned by supervising faculty and/or his designee to maintain efficient and effective daily operations.
EEO/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Education and experience equivalent to: being a current LECOM student with a LECOM grade point average of 3.0 or higher and completion of at least the first semester of medical education at LECOM (students repeating the year may not qualify). With the approval of the Associate Dean of Pre-Clinical Education, a first year medical student in their first semester with previous experience or expertise in a given subject area may be permitted to serve as a tutor for first year medical students and students in the Post Baccalaureate program requiring assistance in that subject area.
