Principal Faculty

Qualifications

Required

• A terminal degree leading to professional licensure.
• Current certification and state licensure, as required, in a health/medical profession (PA certification or licensure in a related healthcare profession, as appropriate).
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Physician Assistant or relevant healthcare provider.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively in complex interdisciplinary and interprofessional settings.
• Demonstrated ability to teach and mentor in an academic setting.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred

• Five (5) or more years of experience as a Physician Assistant or relevant healthcare provider.
• Minimum of one (1) year of full-time experience in PA education.
• Demonstrated ability to engage, support, and lead diverse groups of learners and colleagues.
• Expertise in pedagogy, student learning, and assessment, including competency-based or outcomes-driven education.
• Demonstrated success working with faculty, administrators, students, and staff within a higher education learning community.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Experience with curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, or academic leadership.
• Evidence of qualifications appropriate for appointment at the Associate or Full Professor rank, including scholarship and service.
• Doctoral degree in PA studies, health sciences, medical education, or a related field.

Attributes & Competencies

Successful candidates are respectful, mission-driven, and empathetic; value and promote diversity and evidence-informed practice; put students first; and demonstrate character, a positive attitude, and a commitment to teamwork. Key competencies include social and emotional intelligence, courage, conflict management, decision-making, influence, and content expertise, along with strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, the ability to set goals, prioritize work, and meet deadlines, and the capacity to mentor effectively and balance teaching, planning, reporting, and the needs of students, faculty, and staff.

About the Logan University PA Program

The Logan University Physician Assistant Program is a graduate-level program leading to the Master of Medical Science, Physician Assistant (MMS‑PA) degree. The program’s mission is to educate students to become caring, competent, and culturally responsive PAs who practice evidence-based medicine, demonstrate effective leadership, and embrace a whole health, patient-centered approach to care.

The program enrolls 40 students per cohort in a 24‑month curriculum integrating didactic and clinical education with an emphasis on:

• Clinical reasoning and hands-on skill development
• Interprofessional collaboration
• Community engagement and service
• Evidence-informed, whole-person healthcare

Founded in 1935, Logan University is a nationally recognized institution in health sciences education with a collaborative academic culture, experienced leadership, and strong institutional support for faculty and program development.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• A terminal degree leading to professional licensure.
• Certificates & Licenses: Required as appropriate

EXPERIENCE:

• Maintain current certification and state licensure as required in a health/medical profession (ARC-PA 6th Ed A2.01.a)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively in complex interdisciplinary and interprofessional settings
• Demonstrated ability to engage, support, and lead diverse groups
• Minimum 3 years of experience as a PA or relevant health care provider is required, 5 years is preferred
• Demonstrated success in working with faculty, administrators, students, and staff within a higher education learning community
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)

 

Preferred

• Minimum of one (1) year of full-time experience in PA education.
• Demonstrated ability to engage, support, and lead diverse groups of learners and colleagues.
• Expertise in pedagogy, student learning, and assessment, including competency-based or outcomes-driven education.
• Demonstrated success working collaboratively with faculty, administrators, students, and staff within a higher education learning community.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel).
• Experience with curriculum development, assessment, accreditation, or academic leadership.
• Evidence of qualifications appropriate for appointment at the Associate or Full Professor rank, including scholarship and service.
• Doctoral degree in PA studies, health sciences, medical education, or a related field.

 

ATTRIBUTES:

• Respect; and
• mission driven; and
• values and promotes diversity; and
• demonstrates empathy; and
• puts students first; and
• demonstrates a positive attitude; and
• values evidence informed practices; and
• demonstrates character; and
• promotes teamwork.

 

COMPETENCIES:

Key competencies include social and emotional intelligence, courage, conflict management skills, decision-making skills, influence skills, and content expertise consistent with the position description, responsibilities, and attributes. To perform the job successfully, an individual must have a strong academic and Health Professions Education background, with demonstrated administrative and organizational ability. The individual must have successful teaching experience, strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, be a good listener, and be able to work with individuals and groups effectively. The individual must be able to set goals and objectives, prioritize and plan work activities, and meet deadlines. The individual must be an effective mentor and supervisor. The ability to handle pressures of balancing the time required for dealing with individual problems of faculty, students, and staff while completing the necessary planning, executing programs, reports, meetings, and teaching responsibilities is expected.

 

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers, and smartphones.

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stand on a stool, as necessary. The University will make reasonable accommodations, as required by law, for the known physical or mental disabilities of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship upon the University's operations.