University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Office of Medical Education

Job Title: Open Rank-Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant, Associate, Professor

Working Title: Clinical Content Director- Surgery

Position #: 00840832 – Requisition #:37942

Job Summary:

The Clinical Content Director (CCD) 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 house staff 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. This is an at-will, paid position at a 0.3 FTE equivalent (0.2 UME, 0.1 Dept) of salary support, with a salary capped at the Education Salary Cap of $250,000.

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 surgery 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 who need additional support to achieve competency in their clerkship.

·         Collaborate with the Office of As