Academic Coordinator For Physician Assistant Program

Overview: The NUMC (Nassau University Medical Center) Academic Coordinator for the BS/MS PA Program has the responsibility of coordinating, overseeing, and teaching the first year/didactic curriculum with the support of the clinical faculty members and the academic administrative assistant. Responsibilities: Evaluating, editing, and updating the learning objectives and syllabi for all the courses to meet graduate standards

• Coordinating the timely distribution of course syllabi and objectives
• Advising faculty on the proper format and language of learning objectives
• Soliciting comments on the contents of the learning objectives from staff/faculty/medical director/preceptors/alumni/other PA Program personnel
• Editing final drafts of learning objectives
• Maintaining files on objectives and syllabi, and general information about the curriculum

Evaluating faculty and curriculum

• Coordinating the peer evaluation effort
• Coordinating student evaluation of courses
• Tabulating results of the student evaluations, sharing the results with Program Director and faculty, and discussing the results with the faculty to correct any areas of weakness
• Evaluating instructors and making sure they follow all learning objectives according to graduate standards

Evaluating outcome

• Reviewing available standardized test results with staff and curriculum committee to analyze areas of strength and weakness in the curriculum
• Sharing the analysis of available standardized exams with individual faculty members
• Analyzing together with the clinical coordinator(s) student's performance on each clinical rotation, identifying curricular areas of weakness, and discussing avenues of curriculum enhancement
• Implementation of curricular improvements via the curriculum committee

Scheduling of classes

• Scheduling 900 contact hours with a faculty composed of more than 30 members, mostly adjuncts.

Coordination of faculty

• Orienting the faculty to the Program and general curriculum
• Instructions and discussions of instructional methods
• Presentation of students perceptions/impressions and needs
• Analysis of the correlation of exams with learning objectives
• Review of exams prior to their administration and analysis of subsequent student performance
• Development and maintenance of a close faculty-program relationship
• Recruitment and interviewing of new faculty

Supervising, counseling and evaluating academic progress of 1st year students

• Maintaining ongoing records of each student's academic progress
• Coordinating the advisor groups of the 1st year students
• Assigning the staff as academic advisors to the students
• Review and enhancement of guidelines for advisement
• Apprising advisors of any academic trouble a student may be experiencing
• Serving as advisor for a fourth of the total PA class and utilizing a problem oriented test review when indicated
• Overseeing submission of junior student grade rosters to registrar
• Reviewing ultimate accuracy of official transcripts

Periodically meeting with class representatives and with the entire class

• Oversight of the development and maintenance of a close student-staff relationship
• Serving as a liaison between students and faculty

Assignment of course master for all multi-component courses

• Facilitating meetings with faculty members to work out logistics of all graduate coursework
• Review and editing of the general overview of the course, course description, methods of evaluation
• Coordinating exams, calculating final grades

Teaching courses in area of expertise Supervisory responsibilities

• Assignment and supervision of the workload for the academic administrative assistant

Responsibilities for general aspects of the PA Program and the School of Health Sciences

• Participating in the admissions process including application review, interview and serving on the admissions committee
• Serving as a member of the PA Academic Progress Committee
• Participating in the preparation of the bulletin and catalogue
• Participating in the writing of accreditation documents
• Serving on school-wide committee
• Participating in the recruitment effort

Qualifications: Education/ Licensures

• NCCPA Board Certified
• Valid license to practice as a Physician Assistant
• A Master’s degree is required
• A Bachelor of Science from an accredited Physician Assistant Program