Part Time Clinical Content Director - Open Rank-Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Professor

Job Summary

The Clinical Content Director (CCD) - Family Medicine role is to ensure a fully integrated and longitudinal curriculum in the Director’s specialty across the 4-year medical school curriculum. In the first year, pre-clerkship curriculum, this entails working closely with the medical science curriculum directors and the clinical skills curriculum directors to ensure continuity with the clerkship phase. The School of Medicine’s Office of Medical Education has transitioned to an LIC model in the 2nd year of the Trek curriculum. Core clinical/clerkship education occurs in a longitudinal, integrated fashion primarily in an outpatient setting, with targeted hospital-based training called immersions placed during the core clinical year. Core competencies are taught encompassing care of adults, children, and pregnant patients and are taught by providers representing the disciplines of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, surgery and emergency medicine. The CCD is charged with curriculum development, assessment and grading, teaching, faculty and housestaff development, and collaboration with specialty liaisons at each LIC site. Integration with Health & Society and medical science curriculum is a key function of this role. In the 3rd and 4th years, post clerkship phase of the curriculum, CCDs will ensure specialty collaboration and support within advanced clinical coursework, navigate overlapping clinical site needs, and assist in curriculum development.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with DOCS (Developing Our Clinical Skills) faculty to ensure clinical skills and clinical reasoning as taught in the pre-clerkship curricula is integrated into the following clerkship curricula. Ensure communication, physical exam, and clinical reasoning are taught in same manner, gaps and redundancies are eliminated and identify areas in which intentional repetition of material is needed within the specialty of each CCD.
• Engage in continuous quality improvements with basic medical science content directors each year to ensure a review of content in team-based learning is completed and revised as needed.
• Collaborate with family medicine specialty liaisons at each LIC site to ensure learning objectives, competencies, and clinical conditions are achieved by all students and ensure comparability across diverse training sites.
• Ensure house staff and faculty in respective departments are trained and educated about curricular changes and provide ongoing support and education related to medical student education.
• Provide support to specialty liaisons and LIC directors if students are identified that need additional support to achieve competency in their clerkship.
• Collaborate with the Office of Assessment, Evaluation and Outcomes to write grading criteria in their specialty clerkship. Develop process for standard setting among LIC liaisons and LIC Sites participating in grading.
• Chair the annual grading committees for Family Medicine.
• Cookordinate with Directors of Advanced Science Courses, Basecamps and Post Clerkship Curriculum to ensure strategic repetition of content and avoidance of unplanned repetition of the clinical curricular content.
• All CCDs are expected to be involved in direct student teaching as either a pre-clerkship preceptor or LIC preceptor.
• Participation in and attendance at bimonthly CCD meetings and monthly CPCC meetings.
• Organize and lead monthly meetings with family medicine liaisons.
• Must be responsive to email and text communications in a timely manner from students, faculty, and program and school leadership.
• Engage with School of Medicine information technology platforms and learning management systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Applicants must hold an MD or DO degree from an accredited University. Candidates must be able to obtain a faculty appointment (open rank) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in medical education and curriculum development. Experience working effectively with blended teams. Demonstrate an interest in medical student education.

Why Join Us

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a public education, clinical and research facility serving 4,500 students, and a world-class medical destination at the forefront of life-changing science, medicine, and healthcare. CU Anschutz offers more than 42 highly rated degree programs through 6 schools and colleges and receives over $750 million in research awards each year. We are the single largest health professions education provider in Colorado, awarding nearly 1,450 degrees annually. Powered by our award-winning faculty, renowned researchers and a reputation for academic excellence, the CU Anschutz Medical Campus drives innovation from the classroom to the laboratory to the delivery of unparalleled patient care.

How to Apply

For full consideration, please submit the following document(s): A letter of interest describing relevant job experiences as they relate to listed job qualifications and interest in the position Curriculum vitae / Resume Three to five professional references, including name, address, phone number (mobile number if appropriate), and email address Applications are accepted electronically ONLY at www.cu.edu/cu-careers. Questions should be directed to: Dr. Brandy Deffenbacher brandy.deffenbacher@cuanschutz.edu