Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship; LIC Specialty Liaison --Instructor, Sr. Instructor

Faculty:
Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) Specialty Liaison

University of Colorado Anschutz — Department:
Office of Medical Education (OME).

Job Title: LIC Specialty Liaison.
Open Rank: Instructor, Sr. Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor

Position #:  |
Requisition #: 38833

The Office of Medical Education (OME) with the University of Colorado's School of Medicine (SOM) is searching for a Specialty Liaison for LIC curriculum. 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 by providers representing the disciplines of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gyne, psychiatry, surgery, and emergency medicine.

Key characteristics of an effective, core clinical educational environment:

• Student participation in comprehensive care of patients over time
• Presence of a continuous learning relationship with those patients’ clinicians
• Meeting a majority of core clinical competencies in an ongoing, continuous fashion through those experiences

FTE: 0.05 – 0.3 FTE salary support, cap at $250,000

• Oversight and coordination of inpatient immersion experiences for all LIC students enrolled at the LIC site.
• Develop protocols and systems to facilitate longitudinal care of patients for students, including assisting students in follow up of patients admitted for inpatient treatment and follow‑up in specialty care areas.
• Recruitment and oversight of preceptors who work longitudinally with students.
• Provide ongoing education of faculty and house staff about student roles in patient care and best practices in teaching LIC students.
• Provide ongoing faculty development to preceptors regarding longitudinal precepting, mentoring and assessment skills.
• Close collaboration with Clinical Core Director (CCD) to ensure LIC students are achieving competency and comparability in all required domain aspects required by the clerkship.
• Develop all specialty‑specific didactic content in conjunction with CCD and Basic Science Content Directors.
• Facilitate/teach specialty‑specific didactic sessions over the course of the year (or recruit faculty speakers).
• Assist with the regular assessment of students including direct observation, identification of students who need support, collaboration with CCD on remediation plans, gathering of assessments and feedback from all supervisors working with students, creating summary reports of student progress, and participation in grading meetings.
• Assist with the administration of the LIC programs at the LIC site as needed.
• All liaisons are expected to be involved in direct student teaching as an LIC preceptor.
• Participation in and attendance at monthly LIC site meetings.
• Participation in and attendance at monthly CCD specialty liaison meetings.
• 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.

Onsite — Aurora, Colorado.

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