Instructor – Clinical Scholar

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Medicine-Division of Hospital Medicine

Job Title: Instructor – Clinical Scholar

Position #00840859 – Requisition #37946

Job Summary:

The Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus seeks hospitalists at the Instructor level to join our vibrant hospitalist group practicing and teaching Hospital Medicine in 1-year intensive faculty development program. The participants of this program will work part-time as hospital medicine faculty, attending on resident and advanced practice provider teaching services. The remainder of time is dedicated to the advancement of skills in reasoning, critical appraisal, and Point-of-Care ultrasonography (POCUS).

Key Responsibilities:

·       Develop expertise in POCUS under guided mentorship.

·       Build advanced clinical decision-making skills, founded in biostatistics and evidence-based medicine.

·       Enhance critical appraisal skills and develop expertise in nuanced interpretation of variety of study designs such as observational study, randomized clinical trial, adaptive randomizations, Bayesian analysis of randomized trials, conventional meta-analysis, meta-regression, and network meta-analysis.

·       Develop as an educator by taking an active teaching role in POCUS and EBM curriculums for internal medicine residency program and for hospital medicine faculty development.

·       (optional) Build specific skills pertinent to hospital medicine practice, such as quality and patient safety, addiction medicine, clinical operations, and leadership.

·       Apply advanced clinical decision-making and bedside ultrasonography skills to patient care under guided mentorship.

·       Develop an area of interest and produce a scholarship in that area by the end of the academic year (curriculum development for students or faculty is a form of scholarship).  

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, Colorado.

Why Join Us:

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a public education, clinical and research facility and a world-class medical destination at the forefront of life-changing science, medicine, and healthcare. We are the single largest health professions education provider in Colorado. 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.