Teaching Fellow in Clinical Communication and Cultural Competence

Job description

This exciting opportunity has arisen from the GKT School of Medical Education. The Human Values-Based Clinical Practice Team is seeking an enthusiastic medical educator with experience in developing and teaching clinical communication and cultural competence to join the academic team. The post is a 0.6 FTE backfill for Dr Shuangyu Li and is initially set for two years, starting from Sept 2022. The postholder’s main responsibilities are to develop, teach and assess clinical communication and cultural competence in the undergraduate medical programme, and act as a personal tutor for the UG medical students. Another 0.4 backfill post has already been appointed so this post holder will be working closely with this colleague. Ideally, the post holder should be able to work on Mondays, Tues and Fridays. The main tasks are to:

1. Support to run MBBS year 3 scholarly projects.
2. Teach and organise workshops and experiential sessions for clinical communication and cultural competence.
3. Develop new teaching and assessment materials.
4. Represent cultural competence as a subject specialist internally and externally, as required.
5. Contribute to Human Values subjects assessments, including marking of portfolio and coursework assignments.
6. Contribute to clinical communication and cultural competence facilitator and simulated patient training.
7. Contribute to cultural competence staff development at medical school.
8. Act as a personal tutor and provide student support around diversity and equality issues.

Contract type

This post will be offered on an  fixed-term contract for 2 years.

This is a part-time post – 60% full time equivalent.

Key responsibilities

1. Support the delivery of three MBBS year 3 scholarly projects.
2. Teach and organise workshops and experiential sessions for clinical communication and cultural competence.
3. Develop new teaching and assessment materials.
4. Represent cultural competence as a subject specialist internally and externally, as required.
5. Contribute to Human Values subjects assessments, including marking of portfolio and coursework assignments.
6. Contribute to facilitator and simulated patient training.
7. Contribute to cultural competence staff development at medical school.
8. Act as a personal tutor and provide student support around diversity and equality issues.

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