Description

This gross anatomy faculty position is located at the Douglas R. Kristensen Rural Health Education Complex (RHEC) on the University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK) campus in Kearney, Nebraska. The gross anatomy laboratory is state-of-the-art, and the RHEC has extensive clinical simulation facilities.

This role works collaboratively with the College of Allied Health Professions (CAHP) and the College of Medicine (COM) faculty on both the Kearney and Omaha campuses. In collaboration with other faculty, this role ensures that the gross anatomy laboratory is a functional, safe, and properly equipped learning environment that meets all accreditation standards.

Teaching responsibilities include instruction in anatomy courses taught across the programs in the CAHP. This role requires a willingness and comfort with teaching anatomy at different depths and in innovative ways to serve the needs of the various professional programs in the CAHP.

 Classes are held in person for students at the RHEC. Classes are held via synchronous, fully interactive A/V technology for students at the UNMC Omaha Campus.

 Required Qualifications:

Candidates must have a PhD with at least three years of cadaveric anatomy teaching experience. Thorough knowledge of gross anatomy, physiology, basic neuroanatomy, basic embryology, and cross-sectional anatomy experience is required.

 Supplemental Qualification:

The ideal candidate will have experience teaching allied health students.

 As Nebraska’s only public academic health science center, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is renowned for its leadership in healthcare education, research, and innovation. To meet its mission of preparing a health professions workforce to serve rural Nebraska, UNMC boasts of five campuses across Nebraska, including the Rural Health Education Complex (RHEC) located on UNMC’s sister campus, the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK), in Kearney, Nebraska. Phase I of the RHEC was completed in 2015 and is home to eight College of Allied Health Professions (CAHP) programs, as well as programs offered by the UNMC College of Nursing. Phase II will add a second academic building, which will provide classrooms, offices, a wet lab, an additional gross lab, and robust simulation spaces to support the expansion of the Colleges of Medicine, Public Health, and Pharmacy to the campus. The new building is scheduled to open in January 2026.

 The CAHP is one of six health profession education colleges at UNMC, offering 14 unique education programs in the health professions. To learn more about the College of Allied Health Professions, click here.

 The College of Allied Health Professions is known across the University of Nebraska system for its culture of innovation, collaboration, and respect. It is the second largest health professions college at UNMC, having recently added new post-professional doctorate programs for nutritionists and physician assistants, as well as new entry-level programs in occupational therapy and genetic counseling.

Faculty and students at the RHEC have the advantages of being part of a large academic health science center while enjoying the sense of community and recreational opportunities afforded by a mid-size city with a robust undergraduate institution as its centerpiece. The city offers amenities such as museums, a performing arts center, coffee shops, and hiking/biking trails. In early 2025, a 209,000-square-foot sports complex opened which provides youth and adult programming, equipment rentals, and courts for basketball, volleyball, pickleball, wrestling, and much more.

 UNMC offers a competitive and thorough slate of benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans and planning, professional development resources, tuition remissions, paid sick leave, and vacation. As an academic health center, UNMC promotes a healthy work-life balance to support employees’ physical and behavioral health. For complete details about benefits, click here.

Applications, cover letters, and Curriculum Vitae are accepted online at: Anatomy Faculty Opening - Kearney, Nebraska