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Associate Director, Doctoring and Clinical Skills- College of Medicine

Hiring Department: College of Medicine

Location: Chicago, IL USA

Requisition ID: 1039576

Posting Close Date: 4/15/2026

Salary: The budgeted salary rate for the position is $75,000-95,000

About the University of Illinois Chicago

UIC is among the nation’s preeminent urban public research universities, a Carnegie RU/VH research institution, and the largest university in Chicago. UIC serves over 34,000 students, comprising one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation and is designated as a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPSI) and a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Through its 16 colleges, UIC produces nationally and internationally recognized multidisciplinary academic programs in concert with civic, corporate and community partners worldwide, including a full complement of health sciences colleges. By emphasizing cutting-edge and transformational research along with a commitment to the success of all students, UIC embodies the dynamic, vibrant and engaged urban university. Recent “Best Colleges” rankings published by U.S. News & World Report found UIC climbed up in its rankings among top public schools in the nation and among all national universities. UIC has over 300,000 alumni, and is one of the largest employers in the city of Chicago.

This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Position Summary:

The Doctoring and Clinical Skills (DoCS) course is a longitudinal course in which all students at UICOM participate. The course spans the first (M1) and second (M2) years of medical school, which UICOM considers to be Phase 1. The course is focused on the Clinical Practice of Medicine and students’ introduction to the care of patients. The course will combine classroom exercises, small group discussions, skills practice with peers and standardized patients, clinical simulation-based exercises for formative and summative assessment, and office- and/or hospital-based patient care experiences. The primary purpose of the course is to ensure students acquire the core knowledge and skills that are essential before entering Phase 2, the clinical clerkship years. These skills include History Taking, Physical Exam, Clinical Reasoning, and Professionalism.

This position serves in both an administrative (planning/objective setting) and managerial (implementation) capacity providing vision and leadership in two main areas; assisting course directors with curriculum development and implementation as well as course administration. This includes handling operations, administration, budgeting, planning, scheduling, and logistics for the course. The Associate Director supports course directors in evaluation of the curriculum, identification of gaps/needs and implementation of changes. This position serves as part of the strategic planning team with the clinical course directors and is a primary advisor to the clinical course directors. The Associate Director is responsible for aligning DoCS curriculum across the three campuses of the College of Medicine (Chicago, Rockford, and Peoria) to ensure comparability of student experience, providing excellent cross-campus communication, ensuring organizational and administrative support for faculty and course coordinators, and providing data about assessments to all campus course directors. They will take primary administrative responsibility for virtual class sessions that involve students on two or all three campuses.

The individual must have excellent communication and organizational skills in order to provide assistance to local course directors and coordinators in implementing decisions made at course leadership meetings and tracking iterative changes to the courses.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Oversee Activities Related to Chicago Campus DoCS Course:

• Exercise direct authority over day to day operations of the two year course (M1 and M2- 15 credits) including supervising staff, staff functions, operating policies, budgeting, and purchasing.
• Hire, train, develop and manage staff to ensure that a qualified staff exists to meet group objectives.
• Plan and implement DoCS course including faculty recruitment, curriculum development, student materials, addressing student issues and information dissemination.
• Serve as administrative partner to the clinical course directors.
• Facilitate scheduling of faculty and students for lectures, small group sessions, and standardized patient encounters.
• Oversee small groups and lectures held weekly, assist faculty in preparation for these sessions, update and distribute materials for students and faculty and tutors; assist with room set-up, check-in of faculty and M4 tutors, set-up of technology with IT, and check-in of standardized patients when applicable.
• Facilitate the flow of daily communication between M1/M2 students, faculty, and tutors, simulation staff to enhance learning activities.
• Serve as primary liaison with Simulation and Integrative Learning (SAIL) institute for recruitment of standardized patients and patient instructors, use of manikin trainers, and use of equipment and technology including but not limited to point-of-care ultrasound.
• Schedule development of cases, training sessions, and checklist assessment with the course directors and SAIL staff for formative and high-stakes clinical skills assessments.
• Obtain and disseminate grades and checklist assessments from SAIL’s data management system.
• Collaborate with other Phase 1 course directors and coordinators to determine scheduling of course sessions for both sequencing and location.
• Compile gradebook for each term of the longitudinal DoCS course and submit to the registrar.
• Administer three M4 teaching electives including recruitment, training, assignments and evaluation of the students.
• Arrange remediation activities for all Chicago students who fail OSCE, professionalism or cumulative points.
• Plan, assign and review work of staff to ensure that group objectives are met. Hire, train, develop and manage staff to ensure that a qualified staff exists to meet group objectives.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Oversee Activities Related to Collegewide DoCS Course:

• Co-lead meetings with collegewide Course Directors or their designee and Local Course Coordinators (LCCs) to meet with block directors and theme leaders and ensure cohesiveness of session timing and content.
• Manage tri-campus meetings with simulation faculty and staff involved with the DoCS course to prepare for high-stakes standardized patient assessments.
• Communicate with local campuses for organization of course materials, tri-campus Echo360 class session recordings, tri-campus scheduling, and alignment of sessions.
• Serve as administrative support and record keeper for meetings.
• Assemble assessment data from OSCEs (objective structured clinical examinations), exams, and clinical assessment forms to assist with grading and cross-campus comparisons.
• Assist with compiling student feedback and evaluation data for continuous course improvement and annual course reports.
• Collaborate with College of Medicine staff and DoCS Course Directors to compile student feedback and create the collegewide annual course report.
• Collaborate with human-based simulation teams on a tri-campus level to ensure consistent cross-campus training and equivalent simulation experiences.
• Serve as administrative partner to the tri-campus clinical course directors.
• Plan, assign and review work of course staff to ensure that group objectives are met.
• Coordination and facilitation of inter-rater calibration across tri-campus with input from Department of Medical Education for M1 History-Taking OSCE note grading from key faculty.
• Work with college wide course leaders to lay out an organization and management plan for timely development and distribution of course material. Work with course faculty to ensure key delivery deadlines are met in a timely fashion for tri campus materials.
• Work with course leaders to organize key documents for use at three campuses.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Tri-campus Team Structure and Coordination:

• Assist in training regarding the location and use of key tri-campus course documents and standardized patient materials with new faculty and new LCCs.
• Coordinate meetings with tri-campus Course Directors or their designee and LCCs to meet with block directors, theme leaders in advance of each upcoming block to integrate content and assist with scheduling.
• Communication with LCCs for coordination of course materials, tri-campus echo recordings, tri-campus scheduling and alignment of sessions.
• Follow up with DoCS course and theme/subtheme faculty as deadlines approach for material to be turned in.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum 5 years related experience or a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration, Business Administration, or Curriculum Development/Instructional Design.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to work as part of a team; able to communicate and work cooperatively with all levels of the COM administration which includes the OCA as well as other office teams, COM leadership, deans, faculty, and physicians.
• Highly organized; able to helpfully follow-up with faculty and students as needed; able to move projects forward and see them through to completion and juggle multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Able to work independently without daily supervision.
• Proven decision maker.

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