Endowed Vice Chair of Education

The University of Alabama Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine (UAB) seeks an innovative and accomplished leader to serve as its next Endowed Vice Chair of Education, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. The Vice Chair will be an exceptional academic leader with a substantial record of teaching, clinical, and administrative accomplishments to lead the educational mission of the department. This is an outstanding opportunity for a contemporary and inspirational leader well versed in the academic mission to serve at one of the nation's premier Departments of Anesthesiology.

The Incoming Vice Chair of Education will be responsible for creating and implementing short, mid, and long-term strategies to enhance education delivery for trainees in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, and to strengthen the culture of education research. The Vice Chair of Education will oversee education programming to include innovative delivery methodology, education theory, and indicators for performance. The Vice Chair will communicate and coordinate education efforts across the wide variety of service areas and respective leaders. The Vice Chair of Education is responsible for building relationships with both internal and external partners, including partners within the SOM, as well as experts and collaborators across the national education societies. This position will report directly to the Department Chair. 

The vision for improving education for the department includes education for and by faculty, trainees, and medical students. It is divided into three broad areas:

* Innovate didactic curriculum to better meet needs of trainees and faculty by linking milestone assessments to curriculum development and increasing the quality of the material presented by faculty. Measure the impact through resident evaluations and percentage of faculty engaged in the educational mission.

* Enhance the learning environment by increasing inclusion of faculty and trainees through enhanced recruitment strategies, developing platforms for faculty and trainee wellness resources and protected time, and increasing faculty engagement in education.

* Increase divisional participation in education research. Mechanism includes both increasing education research projects and engagement of residents in departmental research activities. Increase the number of faculty educational projects, publications, and presentations.

Requests for information, confidential nominations, and expressions of interest through candidate materials (including a letter of interest and CV) should be submitted via email to UAB search consultants Dr. Mike Anderson and Vinny Gossain through the office of Ashley Rittgers at [email protected].