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Excellent candidates are those who will strive to cultivate students’ character, compassion, and competence through innovative medical education. Candidates from all backgrounds in medical education are highly encouraged to apply. In addition to basic science foundation and clinical experiences, the curriculum will feature innovation, collaboration with other health professionals, engagement with community, consideration of faith and ethics in medicine, and examination of societal determinants of health. Candidates who have experience and expertise in these co-curricular elements will be viewed favorably.
Current Opportunities
Assistant/Associate Professor of Histology and Anatomy
The Department of Foundational and Clinical Sciences (FCS) at the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine (FCoM) at Belmont University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-eligible faculty position in Histology and Anatomy. The successful candidate will join a collaborative, mission-driven faculty committed to developing an innovative, integrated medical curriculum grounded in whole-person care and dedicated to the College’s vision of transforming health through compassion and service.
This position involves teaching across the first two years of the curriculum, integrating foundational science content within organ-system–based courses, and contributing to active and team-based learning, anatomy dissection, histology laboratories, and clinical correlations. Faculty are expected to engage in scholarly activity and service consistent with the expectations of a developing medical college and Belmont University’s academic environment.
Assistant/Associate Professor of Pathology
The Foundational and Clinical Sciences Department at the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University invites applications for a full-time faculty position in anatomical or clinical pathology. This position may be offered as a tenure-track or non-tenure-track appointment, depending on qualifications and experience.
We seek a dynamic educator with a passion for innovative medical education, student mentorship, and interprofessional collaboration. The ideal candidate will have experience integrating pathology and pathological principles into clinically relevant, case-based, and team-oriented learning environments. Faculty in this role will primarily contribute to the pre-clerkship phase of the curriculum but are expected to engage across all four years of the program in support of the College’s mission to educate physicians who are compassionate, service-oriented, and committed to excellence.
Assistant/Associate Professor of Physiology
We seek a dynamic educator with a passion for innovative medical education, student mentorship, and interprofessional collaboration. The ideal candidate will have experience integrating physiological principles into clinically relevant, case-based, and team-oriented learning environments. Faculty in this role will primarily contribute to the pre-clerkship phase of the curriculum but are expected to engage across all four years of the program in support of the College’s mission to educate physicians who are compassionate, service-oriented, and committed to excellence.
Clerkship Program Coordinator
The Clerkship Program Coordinator, reporting to the Clerkship Program Manager, plays a pivotal role in supporting diverse facets of medical student clinical education programs within the Foundational and Clinical Sciences department. This position is instrumental in ensuring the efficient functioning and coordination of clerkship programs, and clinical programs in the individualization and transitional-year phases of the curriculum (e.g., clinical electives, sub-internships, etc.), contributing to the seamless delivery of educational initiatives.
Clinician Educator
Clinician educators will be involved in the development, delivery, and assessment of a case-based, student-centered curriculum for pre-clinical medical students. These faculty members will collaborate with an inter-professional and interdisciplinary faculty team to develop rich clinical cases that integrate the biomedical, social, and health systems sciences to foster student inquiry, acquisition, and application of knowledge to patient care. The faculty will be actively engaged as a small-group co-facilitator for the pre-clinical curriculum, provide additional academic support as needed for students, and serve as role models in support of a positive learning environment, professionalism, and life-long learning. Additionally, faculty will mentor students with special interests in scholarly activity related to their discipline and area of focus. We are recruiting specialists in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pathology.
Clinical Faculty
Clinical Faculty are passionate about medical student teaching, role-modeling, and whole-person care within the community and/or our affiliated clinical sites. Clinical Faculty should be dependable, motivated, supportive, creative, professional with communication and team-based interactions, and willing to learn and employ newer teaching modalities, as indicated.
Critical Care Clerkship Director
The Critical Care Clerkship Director oversees the design and delivery of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience for students in the individualization phase of the curriculum. This role emphasizes teaching principles of resuscitation, ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, multidisciplinary care, and ethical decision-making in critically ill patients. The director ensures alignment with AAMC and LCME standards for advanced clinical rotations, coordinates experiences across ICU sites, and ensures student exposure to diverse pathologies and procedures. The position includes mentoring students in complex clinical reasoning, interprofessional communication, and transitions of care. The director collaborates closely with the Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology faculty to promote consistency in procedural and critical thinking skills development across the curriculum.
The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings, and previous stated curriculum committees is critical to this position.
Director of Faculty Success
The Director of Faculty Success exists to support faculty in the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University (FCoM), enabling them to be successful in their roles as educators. This role also maintains the faculty personnel information for FCoM medicine and creates structures that govern faculty matters (such as appointments and reviews) in the College of Medicine.
Electives Clerkship Director
The Electives Clerkship Director is responsible for overseeing all elective opportunities within the clerkship and individualization phases of the curriculum. This individual manages the catalog of elective experiences, reviews and works with the curriculum committee to approve new elective proposals and ensures alignment with the mission and learning objectives of the College of Medicine. The director establishes evaluation standards for both on-campus and away electives, ensures compliance with LCME accreditation standards, and maintains documentation of student performance. In addition, the director works closely with course directors, clerkship directors, department chairs, and the Office of Student Affairs to advise students in selecting electives that support their career goals, promote personal growth, and provide balance between breadth and depth of clinical exposure.
The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings, and previous stated curriculum committees is critical to this position.
Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director
The Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing the Emergency Medicine rotation (4 weeks) for medical students during the individualization phase. This individual ensures that students gain hands-on exposure to acute care, triage principles, procedural skills, and interprofessional teamwork in a fast-paced environment. The director coordinates educational experiences across affiliated emergency departments to ensure comparability of training and student evaluation. Responsibilities include aligning clinical encounters with curricular objectives, supervising faculty preceptors, reviewing student case logs, and integrating simulation-based training. The Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director will collaborate closely with the Critical Care, Surgical, and Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors to ensure longitudinal exposure to the management of acutely ill and undifferentiated patients.
The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings, and previous stated curriculum committees is critical to this position.
Simulation Curriculum Director
The Simulation Curriculum Director is responsible for developing, integrating, and overseeing the delivery of the simulation curriculum throughout all phases of the medical education program at Frist College of Medicine (FCoM). The role ensures that all simulation experiences are aligned with course and program learning objectives, offering essential formative and summative assessments to foster student competency in clinical medicine.
Simulation Curriculum Director and Clinician Educator
The Simulation Curriculum Director is responsible for developing, integrating, and overseeing the delivery of the simulation curriculum throughout all phases of the medical education program at Frist College of Medicine (FCoM). The role ensures that all simulation experiences are aligned with course and program learning objectives, offering essential formative and summative assessments to foster student competency in clinical medicine.
Student Worker, Administrative Assistant, Clinical Education
The administrative assistant will report to the Associate Dean for Clinical Education and provide the department’s administrative support. The office of Integrated Clinical Education oversees the clerkship programs for YR3/YR4 medical students, community affiliate partnerships and initiatives, and the administrative processes of the clinical education program within the College of Medicine.
Student Worker, Administrative Assistant, Dean's Office
The administrative assistant will report to the Assistant Dean for Operations and Strategic Initiatives and provide the department’s administrative support. The Dean’s office oversees the operations, strategic initiatives, and administrative processes of the College of Medicine.
Transition to Residency Course Director/ Career Advising Director
The Transition to Residency (TTR) Course Director and Career Advising Director leads to the development and implementation of the final-phase course that prepares students for the demands of residency training. This includes designing didactic and simulation-based sessions on topics such as advanced clinical decision-making, patient handoffs, time management, wellness, and interprofessional communication. The director oversees the development of a formal TTR course, coordinates with residency program directors to ensure readiness for postgraduate training and provides structured mentorship in specialty selection and career planning. As Career Advisor Director, this individual integrates personal advising, residency application preparation, and interview readiness programming to support student success in the Match process.
The clerkship director will serve as a member of the Individualization Phase Subcommittees of the Curriculum Committee. Regular attendance at the monthly clerkship directors’ meetings, and previous stated curriculum committees is critical to this position.
Contact Us
Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine
1900 Belmont Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615.460.6191