This role involves training future healthcare professionals through innovative teaching,
clinical guidance, and active participation in curriculum development and scholarly work, thereby cultivating a student-centered learning environment that emphasizes clinical reasoning, self-directed learning, and interactive teaching.
Key Responsibilities
Clerkship Leadership & Coordination:
- Lead the implementation of the clerkship curriculum for your discipline.
- Orient students to clerkship objectives and oversee the conduct of each
- rotation, ensuring alignment with the curricular requirements.
- Develop and update clerkship syllabi and course files
Clinical Skills Development:
- Conduct regular bedside teaching sessions. Meet with assigned student
- groups to plan rotations and conduct regular contact sessions for clinical
- presentations and clinical reasoning.
- Ensure students develop strong clinical skills, professional bedside manners,
- and master selected procedures related to the clerkship.
- Serve as a preceptor, providing academic support and ensuring patient
- availability for structured activities like grand rounds and OSCEs.
- Lead and actively participate in Grand Clinics and Grand Rounds to promote
- interdisciplinary clinical learning and student engagement.
Assessment & Evaluation:
- Conduct timely formative and summative assessments, including Direct
- Observation of Clinical Encounter Examinations (DOCEE), Objective
- Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), Mini-Clinical Evaluation
- Exercises (Mini CEX) for clinical performance assessment.
- Prepare and administer Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs).
- Evaluate student eligibility for exams, submit results promptly, and ensure
- faculty compliance with online assessment tracking.
Direct Student Education & Feedback:
- Review and provide feedback on student work (history, physicals,
- investigations, management plans), encouraging reflective commentary.
- Assign patient beds, introduce students to hospital staff, and ensure
- attendance at problem-solving sessions and other structured activities.
- Monitor student participation, case write-ups, logbook completion, and
- attendance at departmental activities.
- Provide continuous, timely feedback on student performance.
- Track student absences and report as per departmental policy.
Curriculum & Administration:
- Contribute to curriculum development and revision.
- Act as a liaison between students and the Phase III Director
- Attend and contribute to the College Curriculum Committee meetings Scholarship & Professional Growth:
- Engage in clinical practice, research, and scholarly activities.
- Participate in university-led Faculty Development Programs (CPD).
- Fulfil other duties assigned by the Phase III Director and Head of Clinical
- Sciences
Professional Responsibilities:
- Be accessible to students via various communication channels.
- Arrange substitutes for emergency absences and make up missed sessions.
Qualifications & Experience
Education: MD or equivalent clinical medical degree from a recognized institution.
Licensure: Proven clinical experience, preferably with a professional license from
MOH, DHA, or DOH (or eligibility for UAE licensure).
Teaching & Assessment Expertise: Demonstrated excellence in teaching and
clinical training within medical education. Proficient in various assessment
methodologies, including DOCEE, Mini-CEX, OSCE, and MCQ development.
Research: Strong research background in a relevant clinical science area with peer-
reviewed publications (desirable for Assistant Professor, required for Associate
Professor)
Skills: Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and time
management skills. Ability to work effectively in a multicultural setting and a strong
commitment to student success.
