Assistant Professor (Anatomist) - Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday. CURRENT PENN STATE STUDENT (not employed previously at the university) and seeking employment with Penn State, please login to Workday to complete the student application process. Please do not apply here, apply internally through Workday.If you are NOT a current employee or student, please click “Apply” and complete the application process for external applicants. Approval of remote and hybrid work is not guaranteed regardless of work location. For additional information on remote work at Penn State, see Notice to Out of State Applicants. This is a term position; length of the term will be discussed during the interview process. Continuation past the term length discussed will be based on university need, performance, and/or availability of funding. POSITION SPECIFICSThe Penn State College of Medicine seeks a creative anatomist educator at the rank of assistant professor, non-tenure track, and with the opportunity for promotion, based at the medical school’s central campus in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The anatomist will join a team of anatomy faculty who teach gross anatomy and related coursework to Medical Students, Physician Assistant (PA) students, Anatomy PhD students, and Residents; and with opportunities to teach other learners.  The primary responsibility for the anatomist will be the continued development and running of an innovative clinical anatomy curriculum for the College of Medicine’s PA students. The anatomist will organize and lead the PA program anatomy and run the gross anatomy labs with the help of the Penn State College of Medicine Anatomy Graduate students.  As needed, other anatomists from the Human Structure Program (Anatomy) will provide support. The anatomist will have responsibility for the PA anatomy exams and will be expected to teach some lectures while delegating other lectures to the Graduate Anatomy Students who function as TAs for the PA anatomy courses. The anatomist also will work directly with the Anatomy Graduate Students, and in coordination with senior anatomy faculty, to help them prepare for teaching the PA anatomy lectures and labs. The anatomist will receive support from the Director of the PA program to ensure the exams, labs, lectures, etc. are consistent with the accrediting criteria for the PA program. The anatomist will have opportunities to work with course directors for both the MD and PA programs, and with the Director of the Anatomy Graduate Program, to ensure and facilitate appropriate integration. Further responsibilities may include collaboration with faculty members from the Human Structure (Anatomy) team in the teaching of ultrasound, embryology, histology and in the t...