Director of Medical Education (DMSE)

The DMSE is the Centra education leader who supervises the scheduling and coordination of clinical rotations for LUCOM medical students at Centra and in the Central Virginia region. The DMSE works closely with LUCOM leadership to ensure medical students receive great clinical experiences. The DMSE also communicates, develops, and implements educational strategies- in collaboration with both internal and external partners- to support Centra’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plans, ensuring a measurable retention of Centra trained students as long-term employees for Centra. OMESA’s mission: Train Here, Stay Here, Advance Here .

Location: Primarily On Site with some remote work

Department: Office of Medical Education and Student Affairs (OMESA)

Reports to: Corporate Senior Director, Human Resources

Exemption Status: Exempt

FTE: 0.2 FTE

Required Qualifications:

• M.D./D.O.
• 5 years’ experience in medical education
• Strong experience in education administration
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Travel Required

Travel is expected to be between 5- 10%.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The setting for this role will include office and healthcare settings. Exposure to controlled temperature environments, both hot and cold, is to be expected.

Workplace Exposure:

The normal work routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues. Persons who perform these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, demonstrate hand and finger dexterity in the course of their work, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

The expected physical workload is expected to be:

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

This role is expected to use the following machines, tools, and equipment:

Computer, copier, scanner, phone

DMSE Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a spokesperson and communicator of the value of education at Centra and how education strategies support Centra’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plans. The Centra Health Board, medical and nursing staff, LUCOM, and the community are important audiences to reach as we become better known as a thriving, learning organization.

• Serves as a liaison to Centra service line leaders to recruit preceptors and to build an education infrastructure for students.

• Encourages preceptors to model interprofessional teamwork.

• Collaborates with the Director of Advanced Practice Professional (APP) education to train, recruit, and retain excellent APP students and fellows for Centra.

• Collaborates with the Director of Student Affairs and the OMESA team to schedule and coordinate student rotations at Centra and in the Central Virginia region, in addition to recruiting preceptors to teach our students.

• Collaborates with LUCOM to provide professional development for clinical preceptors.

• Serves as a liaison between Centra senior leadership and LUCOM.

• Collaborates with the Director of Student Affairs in the management of LUCOM contracts.

• Oversees compliance with Centra policies, accreditation requirements, procedures and applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

• Works closely with LUCOM officials to handle professionalism issues that arise among students and preceptors.

Other Functions:

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

As above.