Histology Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor

JOB PURPOSE

UMHS is a state of the art medical school located on the exotic Caribbean Island of St. Kitts. Faculty have a unique opportunity to become involved in the growth and success of the institution, and most importantly the opportunity to educate and nurture a new generation of physicians prepared to meet the 21st century health care delivery in a rapidly changing world.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for team teaching a course in Histology offered in the first year. The UMHS calendar year has three fifteen-week semesters, with two to three weeks break between semesters for faculty leave. Responsibilities include:

• Developing and providing students with approved syllabi and learning objectives.
• Organizing, preparing, and regularly updating course content.
• Delivering effective lectures in the classroom and laboratory utilizing a variety of teaching techniques and state of the art teaching technologies.
• Preparing and administering examinations, grading in a timely manner, and providing feedback to students.
• Focusing on student success by being available to students during non-teaching time.
• Serving on faculty committees.
• Supervising students in a variety of activities, including but not limited to, problem based learning activities, human-computer simulation activities in the UMHS virtual hospital ward, and activities in local clinical settings.

Course Description: 

• Histology 5 credits This course centers on the study of the microscopic structure of normal human cells, tissues, and organs.
• Virtual microscopy is used to study the structure of basic tissue types and their integration into organs and organ systems.
• The lectures correlate microscopic and gross anatomy with basic histo-physiology and function of organ systems.
• On completion, the student must be able to identify, describe, and give the function of cells, tissues, structures, and organs of the human body presented via lecture and digital imagery.
• Students must complete specific performance objectives which accompany individual lecture segments, and, where appropriate, be able to integrate histology with other classes of the curriculum.

Benefits:

• US tax free foreign earned income up to ninety thousand dollars a year.
• Health Insurance plan, University paid for employee (available to spouse and children at employee's expense)
• Participation in faculty continuing education or national conferences in the US once annually.
• Modern, state of the art campus and facilities in which to teach and conduct research.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must have a passion for teaching
• Minimum of an earned Ph.D. in Histology from an accredited graduate school in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K.
• Three to five years’ experience teaching Histology in a U.S., Canadian, or U.K. medical program
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English