Senior Specialist for Learning and Career Counseling - United States - Texas - Galveston
2 days ago
Job description
Job Summary\:
The Senior Specialist provides expertise in planning, implementing and evaluating of medical of health profession programs and students in collaboration with the Academic Enterprise faculty to assess student needs.
Scope\: School of Medicine
Responsibilities:
- Assess students for learning issues and assist them in remediation of identified issues.
- Screen for and manage issues that interfere with learning\: attention difficulties, mood problems, personal problems.
- Provide hands-on learning skills training to include test-taking, study, reading, critical thinking, and other skills as identified during evaluation and assessment.
- Develop, facilitate, and deliver proactive workshops addressing personal, academic, and clinical experience issues commonly experienced by students.
- Assist with planning and administering Physician Assistant Studies academic support programming, including course preparation, peer mentor activities, and other student success initiatives.
- Assist in the development and facilitation of strategies to prepare students for the Physician Assistant National Certifying Exam (PANCE) during their time at UTMB and after graduation as needed.
- May provide classroom instruction for summer semester foundations courses.
- Assist student application issues, CV (resumes) and personal statement development as well as review prior to submission, as applicable to the program.
- Maintain database systems for tracking students and issues pertinent to the success of the program.
- Report concerns, areas of growth, etc. to the Academic Support and Career Counseling team regularly.
- Be available to provide general academic support and other services to MD students as needed.
- Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
Minimum Qualifications\:
- Doctoral degree in Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology or a related field with a minimum of 2 years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting.
- Master's degree in Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in academic counseling in a higher education setting.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Academic health setting.
- Career Counseling in Medicine (AAMC program – Careers in Medicine), or other healthcare discipline.
- Experience in the ERAS and NRMP process for the medical school.
- Previous experience interacting with medical and/or graduate students.
- Experience using diagnostic educational and learning tools. Assessments related to achievement, intellectual functioning, attention, test anxiety, DSM-V criteria, learning styles and career development; including but not limited to\: WAIS, Woodcock-Johnson, Nelson-Denny, Myers Briggs, LASSI.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Expertise in student academic performance assessment.
- Effective presentation skills for group and individual discussion.
- Proficiency in a variety of teaching strategies.
- Ability to work effectively with a variety of professionals.
- Ability to plan, organize, set and accomplish goals.
- Ability to analyze/evaluate data and make appropriate recommendations.
Equal Employment Opportunity
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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