Clinical Education Faculty

Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is seeking experienced, motivated, and dedicated leaders and educators to participate in the design and delivery of an innovative four-year medical school curriculum that engages medical students in active and novel learning.

Job Description:

Job Title: Clinical Education Faculty

Reports to: Director of Clinical Education Integration

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Location: Bentonville, Arkansas (On-site)

Date Reviewed: January 12, 2026

Who We Are

Founded in 2021, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine (AWSOM) is a nonprofit, four-year MD program that will enhance traditional medical education with the arts, humanities, and whole health principles. The school’s culture embraces self-care to empower students to care for their own well-being as well as their patients’. The school’s state-of-the-art medical education facility is located in Bentonville, Arkansas on the Crystal Bridges campus, home to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Heartland Whole Health Institute. The school has been granted preliminary accreditation status by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.

About The Position

The Clinical Education Faculty helps develop, integrate, and teach the clinical curriculum as part of an interdisciplinary team to ensure students receive broad-based training experience. Responsibilities include designing, revising, delivering, and coordinating the curriculum, as well as promoting its integration across all curricular phases. The position supports the Director of Clinical Integration Education in curriculum development related to instruction, evaluation, and assessment. This role also involves direct student instruction, providing feedback, using educational technology, driving curriculum innovation, and assessing student performance.

Faculty and staff members will contribute to the development and rollout of the ARCHES curriculum, which is built on evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning. It includes the following six core elements which will be interwoven throughout the four-year curriculum:

• Art of Healing
• Research
• Clinical
• Health Systems Science
• Embracing Whole Health
• Science of Medicine

This is a nontenure track full-time faculty position (FTE up to 1.0, negotiable).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop Curriculum – oversee the development and integration of all content tied to the pre-clerkship clinical education, including the development of clinically relevant narratives and various assessment tools including, but not limited to, NBME-style multiple-choice questions and assessment of student performance in active learning sessions.
• Teach / Instruct / Facilitate - actively engage in student instruction, developing and delivering content using active learning methodologies. Collaborate with faculty colleagues to create, deliver, and teach the ARCHES curriculum. Facilitate small and large group active learning; serve as a facilitator for small group discussions such as case-based learning, and other small group sessions.
• Assess / Evaluate - create learning objectives related to respective clinical sciences and map them to the curriculum. Use appropriate metrics and assessment methods to ensure that students meet those objectives. Work collaboratively with faculty and staff for continuous quality improvement of courses, sessions, activities, and assessments.
• Serve as course director or co-director for a course within the organ systems curriculum.
• Support integration efforts with colleagues to ensure the appropriate representation of the clinical education curricular thread across the curriculum.
• Co-develop and facilitate ARCHES cases as needed.
• Collaborate with Assistant Dean for Clinical Education and Director of Clinical Integration Education to develop and deliver pre-clerkship clinical curriculum.
• Participate in professional development programs to enhance teaching, educational, and other skills needed to execute their responsibilities.
• Actively serve in leadership and group membership within the medical school (e.g., Curriculum Committee, Admissions Committee, etc.).
• Abide by LCME standards and AWSOM policies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements

• M.D or D.O degree, required.
• Current or prior clinical practice as a physician within the United States, required.
• Greater than two (2) years of experience in an accredited undergraduate medical education or post graduate level education programs, preferred.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in medical education, including curriculum development, formulating and editing assessment tools, and delivery in the field of clinical education, preferred.
• Experience designing, delivering, and evaluating integrated clinical education courses, preferred.
• Familiarity with an array of educational technologies and active learning methodologies, preferred.
• Experience with different assessment methods, preferred.
• Experience with different adult learning methods (e.g. CBL, PBL, TBL, small-groups, simulation, etc.), preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those required by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Physical Demands: In the work environment described, position requires sitting at a desk and utilizing a computer  for prolonged periods of time and good eye/hand coordination, bending and stretching, and physical stamina to lift and transport a minimum of 10 pounds. Visual acuity to review written materials is required for this job.

Work Environment: Work is performed (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.) in a professional, climate-controlled office environment with standard office equipment, including computers, printers, and telephones. This role requires working in an open setting near colleagues. The noise level is typically low to moderate. The role also requires interaction with both the public and internal team members in a professional and courteous manner. Some local travel will be required, and a flexible schedule may be necessary to accommodate business needs, including occasional evening and weekend work hours.

Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

All offers of employment are contingent on your successful completion (where permitted by state law) of a confidentiality agreement and background check. In addition, you will need to provide proper identification verifying your eligibility to work in the United States.