The Clinical Education Director (CED) administers the ongoing development, implementation, management, coordination, and evaluation of all aspects of the clinical phase curriculum. The Clinical Education Director manages the daily operations of the clinical phase of the curriculum, including SCPE development and recruitment, SCPE assignment and scheduling, SCPE assessment, student assessment, and adherence to accreditation standards relevant to the clinical phase.
Working with the PA program principal and instructional faculty, the Clinical Education Director reports directly to the PA Program Director (PD). Developing and maintaining the educational quality of the clinical phase, this candidate will share responsibility for compliance with guidelines and policies issued by the program, ARC-PA, State Medical Boards, NC-SARA, Higher Learning Commission, and other regulatory agencies, where applicable. The Clinical Education Director will function as a leader liaison between the PA program and the medical community in developing clinical sites, obtaining, understanding, interpreting and enforcing compliance, safety, and regulatory requirements at the various training sites in which PA students rotate. The Clinical Education Director is responsible for participating in the program self-study process particularly in identifying opportunities to improve deficiencies, developing and implementing pragmatic solutions for the clinical phase of curriculum and operations, program-specific policies and procedures that improve workflow, optimizing resources, and ensuring ARC-PA standards compliance to attain and maintain accreditation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Duties
Promote the mission of SNU to all faculty, staff, students and the community.
Model character and qualities of a Christian servant to faculty, staff, students and the community.
Promote effective working relationships among faculty, staff and students
Comply with faculty/staff policies and procedures
Administrative 60%
Accreditation
Monitors maintenance of program accreditation with ARC-PA.
Prepares and coordinates materials and resources for ARC-PA site visit reviews. Works with developing, implementing and enforcing program-specific policies as required by the program and ARC-PA in conjunction with the Didactic Education Director.
Maintains and monitors information in PA Program clinical software and other specialty-specific electronic databases, including but not limited to, clinical site attrition, clinical site characteristics, End of Rotation (EOR) exams, student case logs, student and faculty surveys, milestones reporting, graduation reports, and annual program updates.
Collects various required and special evaluations and develops reports when specified per program assessment processes (i.e., evaluation of clinical year faculty/preceptors by students; specified interval evaluations of students, final written evaluations of graduating students, etc.) and all other evaluations as required by ARC-PA for provisional or continuing accreditation.
Self-Study
Monitors Physician Assistant National Certification Exam (PANCE) pass rates for graduates from the program and reports data as required by the program and ARC-PA
Monitors and assists with analyzing data to determine compliance with ARC-PA standards, and institutional requirements.
Organizes and gathers required documentation for completing ARC-PA self-study, accreditation maintenance, reports data at biweekly meetings, and prior to ARC-PA site visits.
Monitors student and preceptor compliance with completion of surveys to ensure required assessments are obtained. Works with the PD and faculty in planning, developing and implementing program's quality improvement activities, policies, and reports.
SCPES
Coordinates and facilitates scheduled meetings with preceptors, faculty, students, clinical site directors regarding the program as needed.
Develops and ensures that fully executed Clinical Affiliation Agreements (CAA) are in place for every rotation site and are kept current in the PA Program.
Prepares, monitors and reviews student SCPEs and vacation schedules using PA Program clinical software.
Coordinates placement of students in alternative sites when applicable
Arranges appropriate required and elective SCPEs for students and provides appropriate documents and credentialing for students to affiliated hospitals and clinics.
Monitors, develops policies, and organizes multiple data points at each clinical site as a components of assessing clinical site quality.
Monitors student and clinical site evaluation process.
Assists Program Director with the creation of evaluation tools and maps evaluations to program learning objectives.
Manages the Supervised Clinical Practice Experience (SCPE) Site and Preceptor recruitment process and ensures sites meet the program's academic and safety requirements.
Develops a scheduling of visiting sites to ensure ongoing compliance with program requirements and safety standards.
Updates clinical site recruitment information in PA Program clinical software.
Utilizes clinical software of the PA Program to document SCPE adherence to program and and ARC-PA criteria for suitability for PA clinical training.
Directs and coordinates annual faculty/clinical instructors/preceptor appointment, credentialing, and on-boarding process for existing and new clinical faculty to ensure effective navigation of on-boarding process.
Maintains all required faculty/preceptor information including new faculty files/paperwork and copies of application packages to the Dean of School of Graduate Studies and Research (SOGSR) and Office of Faculty Affairs.
Maintains preceptor/adjunct faculty files to ensure compliance with ARC-PA and program policies, confidentiality, licensure, liability insurance, curriculum evaluations, contracts and application documentation.
Plans and executes student clinical year preceptor orientation in a timely manner, prior to student placement.
Operational
Collaborates and participates with Curriculum Committee (CC) and programmatic committees to organize and prepare clinical year reports for scheduled meetings.
Participates in annual budget planning for the clinical year. Monitors and tracks the budget throughout the fiscal year of the clinical department.
Processes travel and business expense reimbursements; tracks expense and assists with preparation of clinical year budgets
Prepares, monitors, and maintains program clinical year handbooks, preceptor handbooks, reports, case logs, attendance records and other official documentation to ensure students meet program graduation requirements and maintenance of program accreditation status.
Manages and maintains program data in PA Program clinical software, including schedules, conferences, and evaluations.
Participates in committees responsible for review and assessments of current program and institutional requirements for the program; monitors requirement(s) for updates; works with the PA Program Director in implementation and completion of all required updates on the SNU PA Program websites.
Assigns principal faculty course directors to each SCPE
Ensures each SCPE syllabus adheres to program standards
Tracks and maps program clinical curriculum to ARC-PA standards, PANCE blueprint and program Goals and outcomes.
Academic 30%
Serves as the academic oversight of the clinical phase
Reviews all course syllabi for each clinical course
Reports all final grades to the registrar
Records student performance data for 3 years
Develop a secure evaluation process for each clinical course
Mentor faculty in course delivery and evaluation
Serves as course director in SCPES
Teaches in didactic curriculum as assigned
Recruits adjunct and guest faculty to teach in the clinical phase
Mentors and counsels students, as required by specific program requirements, policies, and regulations.
Develop and implement the clinical phase remediation process.
Scholarly/Service 10%
Serves on the PA curriculum, admissions, and faculty committees
Participates in the annual faculty retreat.
Pursues scholarly activities such as CME, higher education, professional leadership roles, research, faculty development, free clinic service and certification maintenance.
Participates in Program and University events (graduations, faculty/staff meetings, white coat ceremonies, etc)
Environmental Conditions and Physical Demands
Usual office environment
Manual dexterity
Visual and auditory acuity
Able to sit, stand or walk for extended periods of time
Travel required
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
University
Southern Nazarene University is an expression of the Church of the Nazarene. According to SNU policy, all faculty and staff must profess faith in Jesus Christ, possess a strong personal Christian commitment and be committed to the SNU mission to make Christlike disciples through higher education in a Christ centered community.
An understanding of the importance for diversity, inclusion and equity.
Background check
General
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Ability to maintain positive interpersonal relationships
Ability to work independently
Ability to operate office equipment
Ability to provide quality customer service
Ability to serve as a team member and assist in other areas as needed
Program
Capacity to learn or possess knowledge of current ARC-PA accreditation standards.
Capacity to learn or possess working knowledge of program policies, procedures and systems related to clinical year and the ARC-PA.
Capacity to learn or possess working knowledge of all relevant online program and application sites including learning management software and clinical placement software.
Possess the ability to interact with internal and external contacts in a respectful, professional manner.
Highly organized and detail oriented
Possess good oral and written communication skills
Computer proficiency in Microsoft® Word (Word®, Excel®, Outlook®, Access®, PowerPoint®).
Possess the ability to work well under pressure while managing large volumes of work.
Compliant with maintaining the confidentiality of student, faculty, and clinical preceptor information.
Required Qualifications:
Graduate of an ARC-PA accredited PA Program with a Masters in Physician Assistant Studies (or equivalent)
Minimum five years of clinical practice experience
Three or more years in PA education
Current NCCPA certification
Current licensure or eligibility for licensure in OK
Preferred Qualifications :
Experience as a clinical coordinator or clinical director in a PA program
Experience as a faculty member in an ARC-PA site visit
PA, Science, Health, or education related doctoral degree
Supervision Received:
Receives supervision and work assignments from the program director
Supervision Exercised:
Oversees the work of faculty and staff members participating in the clinical phase.
**The Southern Nazarene University Physician Assistant Sciences Program has applied for Accreditation - Provisional from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). The Southern Nazarene University Physician Assistant Sciences Program anticipates matriculating its first class in January of 2027, pending achieving Accreditation - Provisional status at the June, 2026 ARC-PA meeting. Accreditation - Provisional is an accreditation status granted when the plans and resource allocation, if fully implemented as planned, of a proposed program that has not yet enrolled students appear to demonstrate the program's ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards or when a program holding accreditation-provisional status appears to demonstrate continued progress in complying with the Standards as it prepares for the graduation of the first class (cohort) of students.
Benefits
Generous benefits structure including family health insurance plan (shared cost), long term disability, dental insurance, group life insurance, retirement matching, tuition remission, vacation days, and holidays.
