Associate Dean of Clinical Simulation and Assessment

Job Type:Faculty

Job Description:

Kansas City University is seeking an innovative leader in experiential learning and patient simulation, to oversee and support clinical simulation curriculum in conjunction with learner assessment and COM program evaluation. The Associate Dean of Clinical Simulation and Assessment will provide oversight and supervision to Departments of Simulation in KC and Joplin and collaborate with interdisciplinary faculty and administrators across the university to achieve the vision of becoming a nationally recognized multi-site, interprofessional simulation program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight and supervision to Departments of Simulation in KC and Joplin and collaborate with interdisciplinary faculty and administrators across the university to achieve the vision of becoming a nationally recognized multi-site, interprofessional simulation program
• Supervise existing simulation departments (Directors of Simulation in KC and Joplin, staff) and collaborate with appropriate college Deans, clinical department chairs, and key stakeholders to provide the COM with the appropriate resources to deliver exceptional simulation-based curricular experiences
• Conduct and coordinate research, analysis and evaluation on curricular and programmatic assessment
• Participates in strategic planning using assessment outcomes to inform decisions needed to improve educational and programmatic outcomes of the college
• Ensure the professional development of simulation department members
• Ensure adherence to Simulation Code of Ethics
• Successful candidates will combine insights from the learning and cognitive sciences to work with campus simulation departments to improve the effectiveness of clinical simulation in enhancing practitioner learning, health care quality, operational efficiency, and learning at all levels
• Work with internal and external partners to enable to delivery of novel interprofessional education (IPE) simulation-based learning opportunities for students at KCU
• Oversight of the development and delivery of high-quality simulation-based educational experiences and evaluation of self-directed simulation-based training programs
• Expansion and implementation of appropriate simulation for clinical practice
• Evaluation of the impact on simulation-based training on clinical skills and patient safety outcomes
• Validation of simulation-based assessment tools to measure clinical knowledge, procedural, and communication skills

Required Qualifications

• DO or MD from an accredited institution
• 7-10 years of experience in clinical education using simulation-based education and demonstrated ability to develop, assess, and analyze student and program outcomes
• 3-5 years of executive level leadership within a health professions program
• Active state license
• Expertise in psychometrics of learning sciences

Join us in changing healthcare for good! Contact HR Recruiter, Tosha Cunningham, at tcunningham@kansascity.edu or 417.208.0757.



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