University of Colorado Anschutz
Department: Office of Medical Education (OME)

Job Title: Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) Specialty Liaison -Open Rank-Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Professor

Position #00844467:  – Requisition #38833:

Job Summary:

The Office of Medical Education (OME) with the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine (SOM) is searching for a Specialty Liaison for LIC curriculum. 

The School of Medicine’s Office of Medical Education has transitioned the core clinical curriculum into an LIC model, as part of a larger scale full curriculum overhaul. Core clinical education will occur 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 will be taught encompassing care of adults, children, and pregnant patients taught by providers representing the disciplines of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, surgery, and emergency medicine.  

A longitudinal integrated clerkship (LIC) was created based on three foundational characteristics of an effective, core clinical educational environment:

(1) Student participation in comprehensive care of patients over time

(2) Presence of a continuous learning relationship with those patients' clinicians

(3) Meeting a majority of core clinical competencies in an ongoing, continuous fashion through those experiences

FTE:  0.05 – 0.3 FTE salary support, at educational cap of $250,000

Examples of Work Performed:

·       Oversight and coordination of inpatient immersion experiences for all LIC students enrolled in at the LIC site.

·       Develop protocols and systems to facilitate longitudinal care of patients for students, including assisting students in follow up of patients who are admitted for inpatient treatment and follow-up in specialty care areas.

·       Recruitment and oversight of preceptors who work longitudinally with students. 

·       Provide ongoing education of faculty and housestaff if applicable about student roles in patient care and best practices in teaching LIC students.

·       Provide ongoing faculty development to preceptors regarding longitudinal precepting, mentoring and assessment skills. 

·       Close collaboration with Clinical Core Director (CCDs) to ensure LIC students are achieving competency and comparability in all required domain aspects required by the clerkship.

·       Develop all specialty-specific didactic content in conjunction with CCD and Basic Science Content Directors.

·       Facilitate/teach specialty-specific didactic sessions over the co