Rural Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships Coordinator

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Undergraduate Medical Education

Job Title: Rural Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships Coordinator

Position #: 00786717 – Requisition #:38578

Job Summary:

Jobs in this career family provide direct professional support for the teaching and/or educational service mission of the university. Functions include academic advising/counseling, student personnel administration, recruitment and admissions, registration, financial aid, faculty affairs, library services, curriculum administration, and others involving direct support of the educational mission of an academic unit.

Senior Professionals are responsible for exercising discretion, analytical skill, personal accountability and responsibility in a wide range of areas including academic, administrative, managerial and student services functions. Work involves creating, integrating, applying and sharing knowledge directly related to a professional field.  Work is performed fully independently.

Reporting to Curriculum Manager, this position will facilitate placement of students with preceptors, assist with preceptor development and serve as the Rural Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum (LIC) Coordinator.

Key Responsibilities:

Placement Coordination -

• Collect student requests and contact preceptors/sites to arrange clinical practice sites for every block. This involves complex scheduling and balancing student preferences with preceptor availability.

• Work with UME Coordinators to ensure sites and students receive necessary paperwork and students complete required credentialing. Requires strong understanding of clinical site requirements.

• Ensure that new clinical sites/teachers are appropriately onboarded and familiar with the requirements of the rotation.

• Maintain communication with preceptors and site staff.

• Maintain system for tracking when preceptors teach students. Maintain database of current, past, and prospective preceptors and site information.

• Oversee collection of clinical faculty evaluations and work with Clerkship Support Coordinator to prepare for grading meetings.

• Regularly review the preceptor and site evaluations to maintain high quality teachers and sites and collect additional evaluation comments when necessary.

Preceptor Development

• Participate in recruitment and retention of preceptors.

• Develop working and professional relationships with preceptors, clinics, and hospitals in order to maintain and foster preceptor recruitment, development, and retention.

• Create materials for preceptor recruitment, overview of teaching benefits (e.g. library access, CMEs, tax credit), faculty appointment process, teaching responsibilities, teaching tips, etc.

• Assist with planning preceptor development workshops/conferences and preceptor recognition events.

Rural LIC Program Coordination

• Assists the Rural LIC Director with all aspects of managing the student experience. Identifies problems, develops solutions for the problems, and presents problems and solutions to LIC director.