The University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law

Key Responsibilities

• • Assure appropriate student supervision and comparability of student experience and clinical encounters across sites
• • Oversee student assessment by faculty preceptors
• • Serve as a Pillar 2 LIC advising committee member at one clinical site
• • Regularly attend the monthly clerkship directors meetings and advising committee meetings
• • Maintain board certification (or board eligibility, if appropriate) through the appropriate specialty board
• • Understand school-wide educational goals for students as outlined in the Pillars 2 and 3 handbooks
• • Communicate specific curricular goals of the respective department and the SSOM as a whole clearly to students and faculty
• • Manage a program with appropriate administrative skills, including scheduling for students and faculty
• • Achieve and demonstrate consistency in curriculum and learner assessment across multiple clinical sites
• • Manage a credible, consistent, and fair process of student assessment and grading that meets legal and accreditation standards, including timely submission of student evaluations
• • Provide feedback to individual students and faculty in a skilled manner
• • Analyze multiple sources of program evaluation data to effect continuous educational quality improvement
• • Collaborate with other educational leaders to continually improve the education program
• • Assist in the development and implementation of remediation for students who do not successfully pass the clerkship
• • Provide skilled career counseling that includes knowledge of residency programs in specialty
• • Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with students and faculty
• • Advise the department chair and associate dean of medical student education on educational policy and strategic planning
• • Regular communication with department assistants regarding schedules and rotation requirements
• • Regular communication with and supervision of the LIC coordinators and other key departmental faculty at each campus
• • Regular reports to the respective clinical department on curricular issues, faculty contributions, adequacy of patient load for each clerkship site, and student performance
• • Provide letters of recommendation as requested for students applying to residency programs
• • Regular attendance (75%) at monthly meetings of the clerkship directors’ subcommittee of the Medical Education Committee and the designated LIC advising committee
• • Attendance at annual SSOM education retreats
• • Meeting with each campus coordinator at least annually
• • Annual revision of the discipline-specific core curriculum
• • Assure appropriate student completion of SPEL and report adequacy of patient load for each clerkship and/or rotation
• • Periodic review of NBME subject examination scores upon release to assure content mastery
• • Regular participation as facilitators and/or assessors in Pillar 2 and 3 activities such as OSCE, Triple Jump, small groups, and/or the Transition to Residency Course
• • Timely reporting of grades including narrative comments regarding goals achieved, strengths, and areas for continuing work
• • Proxy completion of late clerkship grades starting four weeks after the completion of the course to meet LCME standard requirement of 6 weeks
• • Appropriate communication regarding students with academic difficulty, including referral to the Student Progress and Conduct Committee if warranted
• • Regular contact with assigned Pillar 2 LIC students via email, phone, or face-to-face meetings
• • Timely review of student files prior to or at each meeting and outreach to faculty for incomplete assessments
• • Review of student SPEL data prior to or at each meeting and contact students to complete entries if incomplete
• • Provide periodic competency-based formative feedback to each assigned student
• • Taking an LIC student(s) is expected on average one out of every two years