Job Title: Discipline Chair for Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN)

Department: Clinical Affairs Date: July 2026

FLSA: Exempt Work Location: Carolina Campus

Employee Category: T/R Faculty Work Schedule: As directed in contract

Reports to: Associate Dean for
Clinical Affairs

Percent Employment: Part-time. The chair
duties constitute one or two days per week.
The clinical time may be with a hospital
partner in Spartanburg or nearby community
hospital. VCOM is willing to introduce to
our hospital partner.

Direct Reports: Administrative Assistant

I. Job Summary:

The role of OB/GYN Chair is two-fold. The Chair is responsible for developing and
maintaining curriculum and the didactic teaching of this curriculum during the Reproductive
System and Women’s Health pre-clinical block. The Chair also is tasked with recruiting and
maintaining the OB/GYN clerkship sites, upholding rotation curriculum and standards during
the clinical years.

II. Job Duties:
1. Oversee the organization and administration of the college’s OB/GYN Department

including the clinical curriculum in years one through the third year core and the Core
OB/GYN Rotations in the Carolinas campus affiliated sites.

2. Provide an annual faculty development for the Department according to assessments.
3. Organize the faculty into a department and provide monthly online dialogue via email or

videoconferencing and annual departmental retreats.
4. Provide an avenue for site faculty to have open discussion and feedback on curricular and

student issues.
5. Serve as the Director for the OB/GYN Curriculum throughout the blocks in OMS 1 and

OMS 2.
6. Review faculty performance in your discipline annually with the assistance of the Associate

Dean for Medical Education and the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs.
7. With the assistance of the Website Director, organize a Discipline Chair webpage, providing

needed faculty and student information on the webpage. Assure the webpage serves as a
positive reflection of the College and VCOM to the public.

8. Oversee the Assistant Chair for OB/GYN department in the development of the OB/GYN
clinical sites, and in the duties that include the evaluations of preceptors and grades on the
post rotation exams and the feedback provided to the faculty based on these evaluations.

9. Participate in the development of the Female-Pelvic Standardized Patients, OSCES and
Simulated Patients.

10. Precept students and residents within the clinical practice as part of the faculty member’s
contract with the College.

11. Assure the College remains current with Obstetrics and Gynecology academic trends and
policy (federal, state, and local).

12. Serve as a liaison for the College with other academic sites, national colleges and agencies,
and appropriate entities that align with the Physician’s discipline

13. Represent the College in a positive and productive manner to students, faculty, and the




public at all times.

14. Participate in an OB/GYN practice as an employee, acknowledging that neither VCOM nor
the College administers or operates this clinical site and will have no oversight of the clinical
services provided. Participate in faculty development and faculty meetings.

15. Assist with the planning and delivery of CME as available.
16. Obtain/Maintain literacy in your field.
17. Submit an annual Faculty Activity Report.
18. Be familiar with and adhere to the administrative and academic practices, policies and

procedures of the College as set forth in the Faculty Handbook, College Catalog and College
Policies Manual.

19. Participate in committees, interviews or other service to the College as assigned by the Dean,
within the timeframe of the lease.

20. Obtain and maintain necessary credentialing for Medicaid, Medicare and other third party
payers as well as such hospital privileges as may be appropriate in connection with the clinic
sites.

21. Attend monthly Chairs meetings for the purpose of planning and continuous quality
improvement.

22. Serve as one of the Advisors for the OB/GYN Club.
23. With the approval of the District, participate in COM’s International or US outreach

programs, providing free medical care and preventive services.
24. Perform other duties as assigned.

III. Required Qualifications:

Education: Must have a D.O. or M.D. degree from an accredited medical school. Completion
of a Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Maintain CME credits.

Licensure or Certification: Board Certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Licensed to
practice medicine in the state of South Carolina.

Experience: Minimum five (5) years post residency experience in practicing Obstetrics and
Gynecology. However, minimum 10 (ten) years post residency experience suggested.

Skills required for this position:

- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills

- Strong team player

- Commitment to company values

- Basic computer proficiency

Preferences are given to applicants who have the following skills or attributes:

- Clinical experience

- Surgical experience

- Teaching experience

- Curriculum development experience

Successful candidate will be subject to a criminal history background check.

Regular, reliable or predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

IV. Working Conditions and Efforts: The physical demands and work environment characteristics

described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully




perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable
individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The position requires a rapid
pace, some days with long hours to meet expectations, long distance driving to rural sites, and
the ability to organize, interpret, and utilize a large volume of information.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to ambulate
(may be with use of assisted devices); sit; stand (or accommodate for standing); use hands and
vision for teaching the osteopathic examination and for teaching / providing treatment; use
office equipment such as computers; speak to large and small groups of individuals for teaching;
hear heart sounds, lung sounds and conversation for the purpose of teaching students how to
hear and interpret those sounds and for practice; perform moderate telephone and poly-com
communication / usage; occasionally be required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; drive
distances up to five hours or to fly on occasion to clinical sites, depending upon the location of
the core teaching hospitals.

Work environment: Office, clinical practice, classroom, laboratory, clinical skills teaching
environments and clinical sites constitute working environments. Outside travel required is 15%
to 20% of time. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The pace of the
work requires a rapid pace to synthesize and organize large volumes of material, while includes
those required for clinical practice and clinical teaching and prioritizing duties.

This position is classified as exempt, at the Professional level, because it requires the
advanced knowledge of a “learned professional” in which to meet the job duty
requirements.

Employment with VCOM is “at-will”. This means employment is for an indefinite

period of time and it is subject to termination by the employee or by VCOM, with or

without cause, with or without notice, and at any time. Nothing in this position

description or any other policy of VCOM shall be interpreted to be in conflict with or to

eliminate or modify in any way, the “at-will” employment status of VCOM employees.

V. VCOM Core Values: The employee is expected to adhere to all VCOM polices. As the
environment is a professional college, VCOM faculty/ staff are expected to dress and behave in
a professional manner at work. VCOM faculty / staff are expected as VCOM employees, to be
a person who obeys all laws and professional expectations of an upstanding citizen of the
community. VCOM expects all employees to maintain a positive attitude in all working
relationships with all VCOM departments, employees, medical students, prospective medical
students, interns, and residents and to treat all others engaged in the duties of the employment,
with mutual respect.

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