Assistant Clinical Professor of Small Animal Primary Care
NC State College of Veterinary Medicine
Application
Details
Posted: 29-Oct-24
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Type: Full Time
Salary: $130,000- $135,000
Categories:
Academia/Research
Occupation:
Other
Preferred Education:
DVM or equivalent
The Department of Clinical Sciences at the NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine is seeking a professional faculty track Assistant Clinical Professor of Small Animal Primary Care.
This position requires in-depth knowledge and experience in the delivery of small animal primary care, the ability to teach veterinary students, and the ability to oversee daily service operations. The successful candidate will provide high quality first opinion medicine, general surgery, and general dentistry. Care provided is expected to be delivered in a manner consistent with the service’s emphasis on positive patient experience and low-stress animal handling. The candidate will be an integral part of the development of curriculum to support clinical training of day-one ready primary care clinicians. Teaching responsibilities will include the training and assessment of fourth year veterinary students in the clinical setting, and didactic and laboratory teaching in the first three years of the veterinary curriculum is expected. Additional responsibilities will include leadership and management of daily activities of the service, such as management of the faculty’s clinical schedule, oversight of inventory, and direction of service operations. The selected candidate for this position will have the following responsibilities: 1) Deliver instruction to fourth year DVM students during clinical rotations to include, but not limited to, clinical procedures, surgical and dentistry skills, and use of low stress handling. Instruction to be delivered in a clinical setting; 2) Deliver instruction to first through third year DVM students. Instruction to include, but not limited to, didactic instruction and laboratory instruction in clinical skills and surgery. Comfort overseeing and teaching novice surgeons to perform procedure and surgery in live patients is required; 3) Guide the Small Animal Primary Care Clinical Rotation curriculum in collaboration with service faculty. Duties to include, but not limited to, management of the course website, curricular oversight to ensure the clinical experience aligns with the college’s curricular goals, and oversight of student assessments and grading; 4) Organize and lead Small Animal Primary Care Service teams. Responsibilities to include, but are not limited to, organization of team meetings, creation of faculty’s clinical schedules, and communications with stakeholders; 5) Assist in the coordination of support staff teams to ensure efficient and effective procurement of necessary resources to support clinical activities; 6) Order and help to maintain controlled substances records in accordance with hospital, state, and federal regulations; 7) Serve as the service liaison with the hospital administration and external stakeholders; 8) Mentorship of individual DVM students; 9) Outreach programs and serving on College of Veterinary Medicine committees as time permits; 10) Opportunities to engage in scholarly activities including educational research.
The individual must have a DVM or equivalent degree and must meet requirements for and maintain a veterinary license (or faculty certificate) in the State of North Carolina. Additionally, the successful applicant will have the following skills: 1) Excellent clinical skills, with minimum of 3 years of clinical, dental and surgical experience; 2) Ability to supervise dental and surgical procedures performed by novice surgeons; 3) Experience creating positive patient experiences and utilization of low-stress practices; 4) Interest in educational design and clinical skills training; 5) Excellent communication skills to include awareness of frameworks for effective communication and conflict resolution; 6) Ability to work with others in a collegial team atmosphere; 7) Ability to lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously in a timely fashion; 8) Computer literacy: working knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet and document editing platforms, as well as experience with electronic medical record keeping. Preferred qualifications include: 1) Experience teaching and/or supervising at all levels of the veterinary curriculum; 2) Advanced degree (MS) or certificate credential in education; 3) ABVP certification in Small Animal Practice or interest in completing the certification process.
The Department of Clinical Sciences is dedicated to excellence in educating and training veterinarians and comparative biomedical scientists, furthering health care and wellness through discovery and clinical research, providing outstanding and compassionate medical care to a diverse range of animal patients, effectively engaging the animal-owning public and government and industry partners, and providing leadership in integrating biomedical sciences to advance One Health.
The department provides learning opportunities within the four-year veterinary curriculum and through continuing education for practitioners. Within the Veterinary Hospital, faculty and staff care for patients, teach veterinary students, and provide advanced training for interns and residents.
Faculty are very active in research programs to improve the health and welfare of animals and people. The Comparative Biomedical Sciences graduate program allows graduate students to focus their research in the areas of cell biology, infectious diseases, pharmacology, pathology, and population medicine. Other graduate programs with which departmental faculty are affiliated include programs in immunology, physiology, toxicology and functional genomics.