Job Posting: Associate Program Director for Assessment and Evaluation, Post-Graduate Division

Associate Program Director for Assessment and Evaluation
Post-Graduate Division
Department of Family Medicine, McGill University

JOB DESCRIPTION
4 years renewable / 1.5 days per week

The Associate Program Director for Assessment and Evaluation is expected:

1. To assist the Family Medicine Post-Graduate (residency) Program Director and to work with the Associate Program Director for Curriculum Development in the management of the program, with particular attention to assessment and evaluation.

2. To work with the Family Medicine Post-Graduate (residency) Program Director, the Associate Program Director for Curriculum Development, the site residency directors, the Enhanced Skills Program Director, and the Enhanced Skills directors to ensure the continued development of the competency-based curriculum. This includes:

• The continued development of benchmarks (milestones of progress); of new methods of assessing competency (e.g. Entrustable Professional Activities, standardized testing, and / or other testing modalities); and of new assessment tools. The continued reassessment of tools used to evaluate each clinical domain and each CanMEDS role on a biennial cycle.
• The harmonization of our evaluation processes in all the sites to help ensure an equivalent measurement of resident progress, and the standardization of our residents’ assessments in rotations outside the FMUs (eg. internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine).
• Acting as a resource to the site and ES program directors for resident remediation, by advising according to the promotion guidelines, by helping develop individual FLEX plans, and by chairing the competency committee meetings.
• The development of a more robust process, including multiple modalities, for faculty assessment, with outreach to ensure acceptability to and uptake by teaching physicians.

3. To support new and developing teaching sites by providing guidance about evaluation and accreditation in the first years of operation.

4. To attend all meetings of the Curriculum and Evaluation Committee, and to co-chair those meetings with the Associate Program Director for Curriculum Development.

5. To attend the FM Postgraduate Education Committee as a voting member, and to replace the Program Director as Chair in his or her absence.

6. To attend the FM Program/Divisional Directors and Executive meetings on an ad hoc basis.

7. To communicate with other Assessment and Evaluation leads via the College of Family Physicians of Canada, with those at the other Quebec medical schools, with those at other Canadian medical schools, and within the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, and to attend the meetings of the national group of Assessment and Evaluation leads.

8. To report to the FM Postgraduate Director, and through the FM Post-graduate Program Director to the Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education and the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.

9. To fulfill other duties as determined by the FM Post-graduate Program Director or the Post-graduate Education Committee.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A physician in clinical practice in one of McGill’s family medicine teaching units (GMF-Us)
• An active member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada
• Experience in medical education at the Postgraduate or Undergraduate level
• A full unrestricted license from the Collège des médecins du Québec as well as full clinical privileges in a health establishment
• Fluency in both oral and written English and French

Interested individuals should send their letter of intent and curriculum vitae to rosa.coppola [at] mcgill.ca (Rosa Coppola), HR Advisor of the Department of Family Medicine.

Application Deadline: September 30, 2018

McGill University is committed to diversity and equity in employment. It welcomes applications from: women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity, visible minorities, and others who may contribute to diversification.