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

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, Office of Medical Education

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

Working Title: UCH – LIC Liaison – Surgery  

Position #: 00836378 – Requisition #  37131

Job Summary:

The Office of Medical Education (OME) with the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine (SOM) is searching for a Surgery Specialty Liaison for the University/Anschutz Medical Center (UCH/AMC) LIC site.  

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. 

Key Responsibilities:

Inpatient Immersion Oversight 

• Oversee and coordinate inpatient immersion experiences for all LIC students enrolled in the UCH and AMC LICs.
• Develop protocols and systems to facilitate longitudinal care of patients, including supporting students in the follow-up of patients admitted for inpatient treatment and specialty care.

Faculty and Preceptor Development 

• Recruit and oversee preceptors who work longitudinally with students.
• Provide ongoing education to faculty and housestaff on student roles in patient care and best practices for teaching LIC students.
• Provide continuous faculty development related to longitudinal precepting, mentoring, and assessment skills.

Curriculum and Teaching

• Collaborate with Clinical Core Directors (CCDs) to ensure LIC students achieve competency and comparability across all required domains.
• Develop specialty-specific didactic content in collaboration with CCDs and Basic Science Content Directors.
• Facilitate and/or teach specialty-specific didactic sessions or recruit faculty to deliver them.

Student Assessment and Support

• Assist in regular student assessment, including direct observation and identification of students needing additional support.
• Collaborate with the CCD on the development and implementation of remediation plans.
• Gather assessments and feedback from all supervisors, create summar