Phase 3 Clerkship Site Lead, Internal Medicine

Position Start Date: August 1, 2026

Reporting

The Phase 3 Clerkship Site Lead, Internal Medicine (Thunder Bay), reports to the Associate Dean, UME. Collegial and collaborative supervision, leadership, and guidance, including delegation of the tasks and contribution to performance review, will be by the Assistant Dean, Clinical Education, and Internal Medicine Section Chair.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Internal Medicine Section meetings/communications, providing updates and opportunities to gather input from section members on UME Internal Medicine clerkship rotation to support all functions of this role.
• Ensures, personally or through other faculty and staff, that clerkship students are oriented to the specific clerkship for which they are Lead.
• Provides a clerkship schedule or schedule template to the hospital coordinators and/or ensures that a clerkship schedule be provided in a timely fashion to students and Phase 3 Clerkship Coordinator.
• Ensures that the Phase 3 Duty Hours and On-Call Policy are followed.
• Answers questions about the clerkship for clerkship faculty and provides overall leadership to faculty members within the specialty.
• Participates actively in undergraduate medical education accreditation activities as per the Committee on the Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and becomes familiar with the CACMS Standards and elements available at
• Ensures that students have access to required clinical learning experiences (or that alternative experiences are available) and monitors student progress as the rotation progresses as per Element 6.2 of the CACMS Accreditation Standards.
• Ensures that students receive feedback early enough in the rotation to allow sufficient time for improvement as per Element 9.7 of the CACMS Accreditation Standards.
• Ensures the completion of student assessment forms at the end of each core rotation as per the Phase 3 Promotion and Reassessment Remediation Plan. The Clerkship Lead will ensure that all assessment items are completed no later than six (6) weeks after the rotation has ended as per Element 9.8 of the CACMS Accreditation Standards.
• Ensures that students and faculty are familiar with UME policies that govern medical education including duty hours/on-call policy, bloodborne pathogen (needlestick) policy, leave of absence policy, mistreatment procedure, and other policies pertinent to Phase 3 students.
• Collaborates with the Clerkship Leads in the same discipline on the other campuses (Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie) to share best practices and common learning opportunities.
• Collaborates with the Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, Emergency Medicine UME Curriculum Lead, on the annual review of the Phase 3 academic sessions to assess content and to ensure objectives are covered and are delivered effectively, consistently, and comparably across sites.
• Contribute to the annual review of clerkship objectives in collaboration with Theme 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 committees.
• Works in collaboration with Phase 3 Co-Directors and hospital site academic affairs staff as needed to ensure consistent experience for students.
• Regularly monitors the rotation learning environment to ensure student, faculty, and patient
• Regularly reviews and addresses needs identified in program evaluation data with a continuing quality improvement approach.
• Interact with students to address career or elective questions as needed.
• Identifies needs for continuing education and professional development of faculty to the Associate Dean, UME, and NOSM U’s Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Regularly attend monthly Phase 3 Committee meetings.

Qualifications

Education

• Doctor of Medicine degree
• Possession of a current license to practice medicine in the province of Ontario

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must have (or be eligible for) a faculty appointment at NOSM U

Language

• Must be able to communicate effectively in English (verbally, written and comprehension)
• French/Indigenous language skills would be considered asset

Remuneration

• As per the stipendiary faculty remuneration process

Time Commitment

• Two and one-half (2.5) days per month

Interested candidates are submit a resume along with verification of academic accomplishments quoting the competition number # 2026-2130-DM to:

NOSM University

Attention: Human Resources

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