Chair of Osteopathic Medical Education - Proposed Meritus School of Osteopathic Medicine

About Meritus:
Meritus Health, Western Maryland’s largest health care provider, is located at the crossroads of Western Maryland, Southern Pennsylvania and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. With nearly 4,000 employees, 500 medical staff members and 250 volunteers, Meritus Health serves over 250,000 residents of the tristate region.
Meritus Medical Center, the flagship facility of the health system, has more than 327 beds and is a Joint Commission accredited hospital. Meritus Medical Center has officially become a teaching hospital, serving as a clinical training site for the Meritus Family Medicine Residency Program, as well as for more than 1,000 nursing and allied health students annually.
Meritus Health also includes Meritus Medical Group, a network of 20 medical practices with more than 100 providers; Meritus Home Health; and Meritus Equipped for Life, a medical equipment company. Meritus Health is a 25% owner of Maryland Physicians Care, a 215,000 Medicaid member health plan. With a long-standing history of caring for the community, Meritus Health relentlessly pursues excellence to improve the health status of the region.
Meritus Health is officially seeking accreditation and licensure to open a proposed four-year osteopathic medical school in Hagerstown.

Meritus Health and the proposed Meritus School of Osteopathic (MSOM) in Hagerstown, MD, is seeking a dynamic and skilled Chair of OMM. The Chair, Department of OMM will be responsible for overseeing the teaching, curriculum, research, faculty, and budget for the Department of OMM.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve the college through teaching, research and scholarly activity, service and patient care
• Ability to integrate the osteopathic component in the preclinical and clinical years with TBL, Didactic, OMM skills labs, and clinical skills in the clerkship years
• Responsible for designing and delivering innovative osteopathic-focused clinical education to include osteopathic diagnosis, techniques, and principles throughout the four-year undergraduate curriculum
• Utilize best practices in a diverse mix of teaching modalities to include large group sessions, small group facilitation, table training for OMT, procedural skills training, OMM skills training, simulation activities, and OSCE’s.
• Assess student performance of osteopathic core competencies using various assessment techniques (assessment of medical knowledge and clinical skills). Provide written and verbal feedback to students as appropriate.
• Ability to work as a team with Ph.D. faculty and clinical faculty
• Creating and overseeing a curriculum that guides the osteopathic medical student through acquiring skills that will serve them lifelong in examining and treating patients while maintaining the osteopathic
• Experience in delivering OMM/OPP curriculum at a school of osteopathic medicine
• Experience in creating COMLEX-style exam items and training learners for national board examinations
• Experience working as a course director while creating course learning outcomes
• Advises and mentors students while helping them in academic and career counseling
• Serves on committees and other duties as assigned
• Actively participate in student research activities related to OMM/OPP research projects
• Participates in the faculty council and OME department meetings
• Submits updated CV yearly with OMM/OPP research, teaching, service and other changes for accreditation purposes
• Experience teaching Osteopathic Manipulative Techniques (OMT) in didactics and labs
• Responsible for Interviewing prospective osteopathic medical students
• Develops goals, outcomes, and session learning objectives for each lecture, laboratory session or team- based learning presentation to small groups
• Works with the Clinical and Biomedical faculty to integrate OMM/OPP into the pre-clinical and clinical years
• Participates in curriculum mapping to ensure all OMM exams and techniques meet national standards
• Works with students individually, in workshops or in teams to ensure all students understand the principles and practices of osteopathic manipulative medicine
• Work with residency program as needed to ensure residents and students have OMM principles and practices
• Teach, train, and educate DO students to ensure the development of the seven osteopathic core competencies of medical knowledge, patient care, communication, professionalism, practice-based learning, systems-based practice, and osteopathic principles and practice/osteopathic manipulative treatment.
• Experience creating a curriculum map demonstrating how osteopathic core competencies are incorporated and delivered into the curriculum.
• Demonstrate the highest