Casual Nonexempt Teaching Assistant - ANAT 3651 - Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology

Job Duties/Responsibilities:
This position is for a teaching assistant in the undergraduate human anatomy cadaver lab. The candidate will work under the direction of the undergraduate anatomy course director to prepare the anatomy lab for weekly teaching sessions. Teaching assistants will teach two, two-hour teaching labs, teach one hour of open lab, and proctor exams.

49.5% Cadaver lab set up: Teaching assistants will help draw images on whiteboards, set up teaching stations, set up procured specimens, dissect anatomical structures and attend teaching workshops.

49.5% Cadaver teaching lab: Teaching assistants will assist students in learning weekly material by reviewing structures on donors and models.

1% Teaching assistants are required to proctor at least 1 lecture exam during the semester.

Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must have completed an advanced anatomy course with a cadaver lab.
- Must be able to attend lab setup on Fridays, during the spring semester (Jan 19-May 14), from 12pm to 4pm.
- Must have teaching experience and demonstrate the ability to convey anatomical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Must be available to teach 2, 2-hour lab sessions and 1 hour of open lab during the spring semester (Jan 19-May 14).
- Proctor at least one lecture exam during the semester (1.5 hour time commitment).

Preferred Qualifications:
- Successful completion of an advanced physiology course with lab
- Experience as a teaching assistant for a 3000+ level course

We are a dynamic and growing medical school basic science department that values excellence, innovation, inclusive meritocracy and impact as cornerstones to biomedical research and education.

We aspire to be the leading research and education physiology program in the country.

Our research vision is focused on mechanistic studies of the cardiovascular system, including muscle, and in obesity, diabetes and metabolism. We have thematic interests in sterile inflammation and AI/ML-based computational biology. We expressly integrate new knowledge discoveries from genes and molecules to the whole organism, with impact relevance to human health.

Pay Range: $19.92 per hour

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