Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Pathophysiology

About The Role

This position provides instructional support for courses in the School of Medicine. The duties include, but are not limited to the development of syllabi, course materials, assessment of student learning outcomes, as well as instructional responsibilities. University services are also expected.

Principle Duties/Responsibilities

• Incorporating the mission of Ponce Health Sciences University into program and course learning objectives, focusing course experience on student learning using flipped classroom teaching methods.
• Accountability to students and administration with respect to quality in education.
• Incorporating current profession information into course learning experience.
• Administer courses in a prepared and timely manner, meeting deadlines for course and student interactions. Maintain and exemplify professional conduct in course and student interactions.
• Preparing an updated syllabus prior to course posting according to the standard PHSU format. All information (course learning objectives, reading assignments, testing, grading, etc.) contained in the syllabus must be clearly stated and not ambiguous. All administrative and course deadlines must be met.
• Practice collegiality: Refraining from making pejorative statements regarding the university, fellow faculty or staff personnel in student interactions or course discussions.
• Maintaining regular office hours.
• Contributing to exams that have sound instructional value with accurately measured and well-defined objectives utilizing appropriate levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Evaluation should not be ambiguous and should appropriately represent the information presented in the course.
• Establishing and maintaining a course atmosphere conducive to learning.
• Comfortable and proficient in online course instruction.
• Responsible to treat colleagues, staff, and students in a professional manner.
• All courses should have a required course text or based on published science literature unless exempted by the administration.
• Participation in faculty meetings, workshops and university ceremonies.
• Accountable to report to the MSMS Program coordinator if he/she will be absent or unable to fulfill responsibilities.
• Notifying appropriate personnel of damage to PHSU property. Should report problems that affect any aspect of the university to the program coordinator or appropriate department.
• Read, understand and follow all Faculty Handbook information and policies.
• Other instructional duties as assigned by program coordinator or the Dean.
  
  

COMPETENCIES

To perform the job successfully, an individual must be dependable and have good inter-personal and communication/organization skills and the ability to interact effectively with students, faculty, and staff.

Qualifications

Minimum of a doctorate degree as required in appropriate field. Five years of experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to define problems, collect data, establishes facts, and draw valid conclusions.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have general knowledge of computers including word processing, PowerPoint, and spreadsheets.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Required as appropriate to degree possessed.