Instructor - Clinical Scholar
About The Position
The Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine seeks hospitalists at the Instructor level for a one-year intensive faculty development program. Participants work part-time as hospital medicine faculty, attending on resident and advanced practice provider teaching services, with the remainder of their time dedicated to developing skills in clinical reasoning, critical appraisal, and point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). Clinical Scholars may choose the amount of clinical time they work, with compensation varying by clinical FTE. The program supports participants in developing POCUS expertise under guided mentorship, strengthening evidence-based clinical decision-making, and growing as educators. Participants develop an area of interest and produce scholarship by the end of the academic year; curriculum development for students or faculty qualifies as scholarship. Optional areas for focused skill development include quality and patient safety, addiction medicine, clinical operations, and leadership. This is an onsite position in Aurora, Colorado. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus offers medical, dental, disability, life and vision insurance; retirement contributions; paid leave; tuition benefits; and a reduced-rate transit pass. The position is subject to background investigations and applicable vaccination and medical surveillance policies.
Requirements
- Medical degree (MD or DO).
- Completion of a three-year ACGME-accredited internal medicine residency program, or another program involving training in internal medicine, such as a Medicine/Pediatrics joint residency.
Responsibilities
- Develop expertise in point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) under guided mentorship.
- Build advanced clinical decision-making skills grounded in biostatistics and evidence-based medicine.
- Enhance critical appraisal skills and develop nuanced interpretation of observational studies, randomized clinical trials, adaptive randomizations, Bayesian analysis of randomized trials, conventional meta-analysis, meta-regression, and network meta-analysis.
- Take an active teaching role in POCUS and evidence-based medicine curricula for the internal medicine residency program and hospital medicine faculty development.
- Optionally build specific skills pertinent to hospital medicine, such as quality and patient safety, addiction medicine, clinical operations, and leadership.
- Apply advanced clinical decision-making and bedside ultrasonography skills to patient care under guided mentorship.
- Develop an area of interest and produce scholarship in that area by the end of the academic year.
- Work part-time as hospital medicine faculty, attending on resident and advanced practice provider teaching services.
Benefits
- Medical insurance with multiple plan options
- Dental insurance with multiple plan options
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer contribution of 10% of gross pay to the 401(a) retirement plan
- Paid time off accruals
- 22 vacation days per year, with a maximum accrual of 352 hours
- 15 sick days per year, with unlimited maximum accrual
- 10 holiday days per year
- Tuition benefit available on all CU campuses
- Reduced-rate RTD bus and light rail service through ECO Pass
- Additional perks and programs through CU Advantage
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
