Medical Director, Simulation Center, Clinical Skills and Competencies at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee

Job Description:

The School of Medicine is seeking applications for a faculty position to serve as the Senior Director of Standardized Patient Learning Simulation Center at Meharry Medical College in the School of Medicine. The primary responsibility of this position is to direct the operations of the Standardized Patient Learning Simulation Center. This includes working with departmental in the development and implementation of instructional methods and evaluation strategies for an integrated clinical skills curriculum, maintenance of physical resources including a sophisticated data/video software management system, and implementing an integrated standardized patient program for diverse learners to include all levels of medical, dental, physician assistant, and Allied Health students and all levels of residents and faculty.


The Director will oversee the implementation of educational and assessment modules, spearhead the accreditation process to achieve accreditation status of the center. Primary faculty appointment will be in an appropriate academic department; rank and track determined by qualifications.



Essential Functions (Duties and Responsibilities) -
Assign a percentage to each essential function (equal to 100%):

• Oversee and support the development of course curricula in accordance with current training standards for all levels of trainees. This will be accomplished collaboratively with appropriate departmental leadership

• Support the expansion of departmental simulation-based activities as deemed appropriate and necessary by departmental leaders.

• Assist in the development of special simulation-based projects (e.g., disaster drills, multi-disciplinary training, introduction of new technology or equipment).

• Collaborate with faculty and staff throughout the MMC medical community on simulation-based activities.

• Actively participate in engaging multidisciplinary trainees/learners in the application of newer and advanced technologies such as mixed/augment/virtual reality to train, educate as well as assist in conducting research in this realm.

• Provide leadership for the development of simulation activities for conferences.

• Develop and implement simulation instructor training for faculty and residents. Maintain a core group of simulation faculty.

• Oversee programs for development and maintenance of faculty procedural skills

• Design appropriate methods for evaluating the efficacy of departmental simulation-based training activities and maintain on-going data collection on the efficacy of simulation-based training activities.

• Solicit and regularly review feedback on departmental simulation-based activities.

• Support the development and writing of grants to support research related to simulation-based activities. Consult on resident and faculty simulation scholarship

• Other duties as assigned