Clinical care responsibilities, on-call duties, resident and fellow supervision and conferences are shared with other members of the department. 

Candidates must have demonstrated ability in teaching and in scholarly productivity.  This position will direct the first year medical student pathology course, Principles in Pathology, a required 6 week course given in the last semester of the first year of medical school as well as serve as the Pathology Thread Director for all Human Health and Disease blocks of the second year of the medical school curriculum.  Additional responsibilities will include co-directing the summer internship in pathology (an 8 week experience for 4 medical students), co-directing the post-sophomore fellowship in pathology, serve as a member of the Resident and Fellowship Committee, serve on the Medical School’s Scientific Foundations Committee (includes first and second year course directors), supervise the pathology lab manager/course coordinator and oversee the pathology medical student education budget. 

Academic time will be used to pursue scholarly work in the candidate’s area of specialty/research expertise with a goal of developing collaborative or independent external funded research. 

Preferred candidates will be active in their national organizations and have experience in fostering an academic environment for medical students, residents, fellows and faculty.

The University of Minnesota is a large and diverse university and medical school with a large subspecialty practice plan of over 950 physicians, University of Minnesota Physicians.  The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology is home to a large number of anatomic and clinical pathology faculty as well as many basic science faculty involved in research, undergraduate and graduate education.  The department also has an ACGME approved residency program and eight ACGME approved fellowships.  More information about the department can be found at https://www.pathology.umn.edu/