Clinical Content Director- Surgery

University of Colorado • Aurora, CO

88d • $250,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• MD or DO degree from an accredited University.
• Candidates must be able to obtain a faculty appointment at the rank of Instructor, Senior Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in medical education and curriculum development.
• Experience working effectively with blended teams.
• Demonstrate an interest in medical student education.

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.
• 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.
• 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 Assessment, Evaluation and Outcomes to write grading criteria in their specialty clerkship.
• Develop process for standard setting among LIC liaisons and LIC Sites participating in grading.
• Chair the annual grading committees for surgery.
• Coordinate with Directors of Advanced Science Courses, Basecamps and Post Clerkship Curriculum to ensure strategic repetition of content and avoidance of unplanned repetition of the clinical curricular content.
• All CCDs are expected to be involved in direct student teaching as either a pre-clerkship preceptor or LIC preceptor.
• Participation in and attendance at bimonthly CCD meetings and monthly CPCC meetings.
• Organize and lead monthly meetings with surgery liaisons.
• Must be responsive to email and text communications in a timely manner from students, faculty, and program and school leadership.
• Must engage with School of Medicine information technology platforms and learning management systems.

Benefits

• Generous leave
• Health plans
• Retirement contributions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree