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

Job Title: CUSOM/CSU Brand Campus Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Faculty Liaison – Estes Park

Open Rank-Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Professor

Position #: 00843797– Requisition #38657:

Job Summary:

The Office of Medical Education (OME) within the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine (SOM) is searching for an Estes Park Liaison for the Norther Colorado Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship site.

The School of Medicine’s Office of Medical Education has transitioned the core clinical curriculum into a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (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

SEEKING APPLICANTS CURRENTLY PRACTICING IN ESTES PARK.

Supervision Received:

Reports directly to Reports directly to the Northern Colorado Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Director and dotted to the Dean for the Fort Collins Branch

Supervision Exercised:

This position has no direct supervision.

Examples of Work Performed:

50% - Assist with the administration of the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in Northern Colorado – Estes Park experience as needed, and work to continually improve the experience for students and preceptors. Specifically:

·         Participate in LIC team planning meetings or calls when needed

·         Communicate effectively with the LIC coordinator(s) and director(s) as needed

·         Work with the team to create a schedule for students at your site that aligns with the rest of the clerkship

·         Identify interested preceptors for the clerkship experience, and assist them in obtaining clinic