Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education

The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) seeks a nationally recognized, innovative, and visionary leader to become its next Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education (SAD). This is an opportunity to strengthen, enrich and implement a vision for education at Michigan Medicine (MM) across the domains of medical student education, resident/fellow training, and lifelong learning, while maintaining the excellence and upward trajectory that characterize current programs. Education at Michigan Medicine benefits from a world-class patient and family-centered health care delivery organization, ground-breaking and well-funded research enterprise, and innumerable opportunities for collaboration across the University. The SAD will be a champion of education and provide cohesion, guidance and oversight along the educational continuum.

MM is home to one of the largest health care complexes in Michigan and is comprised of the UM Health System, UMMS, and the Michigan Health Corporation. MM serves the state, nation and world through advanced clinical care, path-breaking research on human health and disease, and a broad range of biomedical education. UMMS is one of the largest clinical, research and medical education enterprises in the country and sits within the nation’s top public research university with UMMS receiving $746M in annual awards for FY22. UMMS serves as the academic engine for MM, enrolls 692 medical students, and counts approximately 1,300 graduate medical education trainees. Over 3,850 faculty have appointments in 29 clinical and basic science departments. Interdisciplinary and interprofessional innovation, a culture of collaboration and close proximity to other top UM Schools are among the hallmarks of UMMS. The 2023 U.S. News & World Report Best Medical Schools rankings place UMMS at 17^th in the nation for research and 20^th for primary care, with six specialties ranked in the top ten among U.S. medical schools.

The SAD is a key member of the collaborative leadership team that oversees the education mission at UMMS. Reporting to the Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, the SAD is responsible for the successful leadership, strategic management, and overall quality of education and training within MM. The SAD will utilize data and define metrics to further improve educational programs that maximize value to learners and to the communities in which they serve. The SAD will provide oversight for Medical Student Education (UME), Graduate Medical Education (GME), and Continuing Medical Education and Lifelong Learning (CME) and will connect the missions across the educational continuum.

The successful candidate will be an institutional thinker, collaborative leader, innovator, and superb communicator who will bring a knowledge of the trends in medical education and have a deep understanding of the changing medical landscape. The selected candidate must hold a medical degree, be qualified for appointment as associate professor or above, and will have a proven capacity to partner and collaborate with UME, GME and CME leaders at both the strategic and operational levels. The SAD will affirm and advance MM’s commitment to diversity, equity, access, justice, inclusion and learner well-being; will foster and promote inclusive teams; will mentor leaders of education; will have the ability to traverse the fields of academic medicine and education while building collaborative relationships and promoting cohesion and harmonization of the education mission.

Please direct inquiries, nominations, and applications  below. All replies will be held in strict confidence. Correspondence and applications, which should include a CV and letter of interest, should be submitted electronically below.

Jamie Sands is leading this search with Jane McInerney.