RUSH University Medical Center, a nationally recognized clinical and academic institution and the teaching hospital for RUSH Medical and Nursing Colleges, located in downtown Chicago, invites applications for the position of Health Equity – Project Coordinator.

The Health Equity Project Coordinator works with students within the Health Equity and Social Justice Leadership Program on their projects.  

Responsibilities and Duties

All faculty and staff who work at Rush Medical College embody the Rush ICARE values. They are described here as they apply to education.

• INNOVATION: use feedback from program evaluation to regularly make improvements to delivery of the curriculum, test new methods where appropriate
• COLLABORATION: work with other faculty and staff to deliver an increasingly integrated experience to students
• ACCOUNTABILITY: proactively identify and solve problems, complete responsibilities in a timely manner
• RESPECT: treat our students, faculty, and staff with civility 
• EXCELLENCE: track quality metrics in the curriculum related to your role to continuously pursue improvement.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead student projects for the M1, M2, M3, and M4 years.
• Organize students into project groups and assists them with finding a community partner for their longitudinal project.
• Sets expectations for students, assisting with project scope, creating and grading assignments, assisting students with work timelines, and project evaluation.
• Guide students through creating scholarly work from their projects.

• Keep a running log of projects from past years and scholarly work from previous years.

Qualifications and Skills

• Medical doctorate
• Experience in teaching students

Compensation? 

This position is awarded 5% buy down from clinical work for educational involvement, which corresponds to approximate 100 hours of time across the year.

 Rush University System for Health (RUSH) is an academic health system whose mission is to improve the health of the individuals and the diverse communities it serves through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

RUSH includes RUSH University Medical Center, RUSH University, RUSH Copley Medical Center and RUSH Oak Park Hospital, as well as numerous outpatient care facilities. RUSH University, with more than 2,500 students, is a health sciences university that comprises RUSH Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences and the Graduate College.

RUSH is an elite medical community recognized yearly for excellence in patient care, medical discovery and clinical expertise. We’re proud to have received Vizient’s Quality and Accountability Study, ranking second among 99 academic medical centers across the country. All three RUSH hospitals have earned the LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader designation in the Healthcare Equality Index. Our physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses and staff are the heartbeat of our health system’s ongoing success. We know how important it is to recruit and retain exceptional staff and faculty to execute our mission.

Join RUSH and become part of one of the nation’s best healthcare systems.