Description

School of Dentistry

Department of General Practice

Virginia Commonwealth University

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Dentistry is seeking applicants for a full-time faculty position, in the Department of General Practice. Academic rank, tenure eligibility, and salary commensurate with the candidate's experience and qualifications.

Chief Purpose:

The faculty position will provide teaching, research, scholarly activities, and patient care. This faculty position will provide didactic and clinical teaching and mentoring to pre-doctoral students, scholarly activity, service, research and participation in intramural faculty practice (optional). The position’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to: course director, teaching and mentoring undergraduate dental students in preparation for private practice, service, and scholarship. Methods of teaching will include clinical and didactic teaching, course directorship, curriculum development, scholarly activity, mentoring and patient care.

Position Responsibilities:

Teaching:

Responsibilities include clinical and didactic teaching of 75-100 pre-doctoral students in the areas of practice management and running highly productive practices. This position may lead a practice group or serve as a course director, teaching and mentoring undergraduate dental students in preparation for private practice, service, and scholarship. Faculty members are expected to teach in an integrated curriculum system that includes baccalaureate, graduate, and professional education. Teaching across traditional departmental lines and in multidisciplinary teams is required. Faculty members are expected to foster transformative learning that is informed by interdisciplinary and translational research, scholarship, and creative expression.

Research:

Faculty members may participate in research protocols and will work collaboratively with dental research programs and investigators.

Clinical:

This position will provide a teaching and leadership role in the dentistry clinics, seeing patients, working with students, and working collaboratively with other faculty and staff to promote best business practices, and increase clinic productivity. This position may also participate in the Dental Faculty Private Practice.

Service:

The faculty member will be expected to serve the Department of General Practice, the School of Dentistry, and Virginia Commonwealth University by serving on committees and task forces as requested. In addition, participation in dentistry-related community service activities is strongly encouraged.

Required Qualifications:

• DDS or DMD Degree, or equivalent
• Eligibility for a dental license in Virginia
• Strong leadership skills
• Expansive dental clinic experience
• Expertise in and ability to teach dental practice management through clinical and didactic experiences
• Desire to mentor future dental practitioners
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to change and embrace modern technology
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to, and participate in, a humanistic environment of learning
• Demonstrated ability, or acquire and develop such ability, to incorporate adult learning theory, evidence-based oral health care, innovation in student learning, and critical thinking
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU
• For tenure-eligible positions at the Assistant Professor rank, an established research agenda and a clear potential for external funding, as well as potential for scholarship or creative expression to complement and expand existing expertise in the department
• For tenure-eligible positions at the Associate Professor or Professor level, a well-developed scholarly/research portfolio with evidence of multi-disciplinary applications and external funding appropriate to complement and expand existing expertise in the department

Application Process:

Candidates must apply to this faculty position through the university’s career website at https://vcujobs.com/  (search requisition 45001997) to be considered for faculty position: F31460

• Three recent letters of reference, or contact information for at least three references, will be required for consideration.
• For further information about this position, contact Dr. Matthew Winheim, Search Committee Chair, VCU School of Dentistry, Department of General Practice, at [email protected] 

Virginia Commonwealth University is a major, urban research university with national and international rankings in sponsored research. Located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, VCU enrolls nearly 31,000 students in 223 degree and certificate programs in the arts, sciences, and humanities. Sixty-eight of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU's thirteen schools and one college. VCU Health System and the health sciences schools of Virginia Commonwealth University comprise the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. For more information, see www.vcu.edu 

Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity employer.