Critical Care Clerkship Director

Critical Care Clerkship Director

Belmont University – College of Medicine

• Faculty
• Part-Time

The Critical Care Clerkship Director oversees the design and delivery of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience for students in the individualization phase of the curriculum. This role emphasizes teaching principles of resuscitation, ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, multidisciplinary care, and ethical decision‑making in critically ill patients. The director ensures alignment with AAMC and LCME standards for advanced clinical rotations, coordinates experiences across ICU sites, and ensures student exposure to diverse pathologies and procedures.

The position includes mentoring students in complex clinical reasoning, interprofessional communication, and transitions of care. The director collaborates closely with the Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology faculty to promote consistency in procedural and critical thinking skills development across the curriculum. The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings and other curriculum committees is critical to this position.

• Maintain board certification (or board eligibility, if appropriate) through the appropriate specialty board.
• Understand school-wide educational goals for students as outlined in student handbooks.
• Communicate specific curricular goals of the respective department and FCoM clearly to students and faculty.
• Manage a program with appropriate administrative skills, including scheduling for students and faculty.
• Achieve and demonstrate consistency in curriculum and learner assessment across multiple clinical sites.
• Manage a credible, consistent, and fair process of student assessment and grading that will meet legal and accreditation standards and be completed in a timely manner in collaboration with the Offices of Medical Education (OME) and the Office of Student Affairs and Belonging (OSAB).
• Provide feedback to individual students and faculty in a skilled manner.
• Analyze multiple sources of program evaluation data (e.g., student evaluations, experience and procedure reports, etc.) to effect continuous educational quality improvement.
• Collaborate with other educational leaders to continually improve the education program.
• Assist in the development and implementation of remediation for students who do not successfully pass the clerkship.
• Provide skilled career counseling that includes knowledge of residency programs in specialty.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with students and faculty.
• Advise the department chair and leaders of medical student education on educational policy and strategic planning, with attention to anticipated changes in resources and community/societal needs.

• Regular communication with department/curriculum support regarding schedules and rotation requirements.
• Regular communication with and supervision of key departmental faculty at each clinical site.
• Regular reports to the respective departments on curricular issues, faculty contributions, adequacy of patient load for each clerkship site, and student performance.
• Letters of recommendation as requested for students applying to residency programs.
• Regular attendance (75%) at all required curriculum meetings and department meetings.
• Attendance at annual FCoM education retreats.
• Meeting with each clinical site at least annually.

• Annual revision of the discipline‑specific core curriculum.
• Assure appropriate student completion of experience and procedure logs and report of the adequacy of patient load for each clerkship and/or rotation.
• Periodic review of NBME subject examination scores upon release to assure content mastery.

• Timely reporting of grades including narrative comments regarding goals achieved, strengths, and areas for continuing work.
• Appropriate communication regarding students with academic difficulty, including referral to the Student Affairs and the student promotions committee if warranted.

The clerkship director’s position is a 50% FTE or five full half‑days per week position.

• A Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree.
• Board certification in a relevant specialty.
• A minimum of 5–7 years of clinical practice experience.

• Experience in academic medicine is ideal but not a requirement; including teaching medical students and/or residents (3–5 years).

The selected candidate will be required to complete a background check satisfactory to the University. Belmont University participates in E‑Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.