Assistant-Associate Professor Infectious Diseases - Pharmacy

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POSITION DESCRIPTION

A pharmacy practice faculty member (Assistant or Associate Professor) is responsible for the planning and delivery of assigned core and elective PharmD coursework within the School of Pharmacy. The faculty member is responsible to the Chair for Pharmacy Practice and will be actively engaged in the teaching, scholarship, and service missions of Pacific University. The faculty will have an opportunity to develop, implement, and maintain a pharmacy practice site to facilitate experiential training for PharmD candidates. The practice site opportunity is developed in line with the expertise and interests of the faculty member to promote their professional growth and scholarly endeavors and School's needs. The faculty position is offered as an 11-month calendar year extended-term track appointment having 60% teaching effort.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Prior experience in these general areas will receive highest consideration:

• Develop, maintain, and administer student-centered PharmD curricular material in a broad range of topics related to evidence-based pharmacotherapy and the management of patients and pharmacy practice via lectures, group activities, skills laboratories, projects, and experiential education.
• Assess teaching, with emphasis on competencies and outcomes, in order to provide continual improvement in student and faculty performances and in student retention
• Provide mentoring and advisement to PharmD students and, where appropriate, to preceptors throughout the didactic and experiential curriculum
• Develop, implement, and maintain a high-quality collaborative pharmacy practice site (inpatient care) to facilitate rotations in experiential education (negotiable up to 20%)
• Engage in the scholarship of discovery, application, integration, and teaching (i.e., Boyer's model) in areas appropriate to the appointee's interest and expertise, which advances the mission of the School of Pharmacy, College, and University (10% effort)
• Participate in various committees in the School of Pharmacy, College, and University (10% effort)