Senior Specialist for Learning and Career Counseling - School of Medicine

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.