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Job Description Summary

The Academic Faculty position provides an exciting opportunity to interact and teach osteopathic medical students through all four years in Clinical Skills and OPP Labs. Additionally, they will interface frequently with the Course Directors and provide lectures in different aspects of clinical medicine. Although this is primarily an academic position, some opportunity for clinical work can be available at one of our affiliated clinics. Appointment and rank is commensurate with experience.

Job Description

• As academic faculty in family medicine or internal medicine, you will serve as an integral member of the Clinical Sciences division.
• In the classroom and labs, you will actively participate in educating first- and second-year students in primary clinical skills through standardized patient encounters and hands-on skills exercises.
• You will collaborate with other faculty in systems-based curricular courses, with additional teaching opportunities based on your areas of interest and expertise.
• ACOM supports its faculty in scholarly activity through professional development and opportunities for research collaboration.

Minimum Experience Required

• Clinical experience in specialty

Minimum Experience Preferred

D.O. or M.D. degree
Board certification by the appropriate AOA or ABMS specialty board
Eligibility for licensure in Alabama
Teaching experience in OPP is preferred

The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or creed, national or ethnic origin, or disability in its programs, activities, hiring or the admission of students.

About The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine

The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private, non-profit, osteopathic medical school located in Dothan, Alabama. The college is an academic division of Southeast Health and was founded to help address the state’s primary care physician shortage. Southeast Health was named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Mid-Size Employers for 2019. Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine is the state’s first osteopathic medical school with a class size of up to 210 students. The college is nationally and internationally known for its award-winning simulation program, with a first-of-its-kind clinical simulation fellowship for medical school students.

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