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Clinical Content Director- Surgery - Open Rank

Clinical Content Director- Surgery - Open Rank-March 2024

Aurora

Mar 21, 2025

About Clinical Content Director- Surgery - Open Rank

　　Clinical Content Director- Surgery - Open Rank - 32317 Faculty

　　Description

　　University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

　　Department: Office of Medical Education

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

　　Working Title: Clinical Content Director- Surgery

　　Position #: 00818959 – Requisition #: 32317

　　Job Summary:

　　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, the pre-clerkship curriculum 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 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 and 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 $200,000.

　　Key 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. Ensure communication, physical exam, and clinical reasoning are taught in same manner, gaps and redundancies are eliminated, and identify areas in which intentional repetition of material is needed within the specialty of each CCD.

　　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 and ensure comparability across diverse training sites.

　　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 that 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.

　　Support and assist with recruitment of surgical specialty instructors (faculty or residents) for the Transition to Residency Basecamp.

　　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

　　Supervision Received: This position will report to the Assistant Dean for Medical Education - Clerkship.

　　Why Join Us:

　　The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is a world-class medical destination at the forefront of transformative science, medicine, education, and patient care. The campus encompasses the University of Colorado health professional schools, more than 60 centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked independent hospitals - UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=4922481&targetURL=https://www.uchealth.org/locations/uchealth-university-of-colorado-hospital-uch/) and Children's Hospital Colorado (https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=4922481&targetURL=https://www.childrenscolorado.org/locations/anschutz-medical-campus-aurora/) - that treat more than two million adult and pediatric patients each year. Innovative, interconnected, and highly collaborative, the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus delivers life-changing treatments, patient care and professional training and conducts world-renowned research fueled by over $650 million in research grants. For more information, visit www.cuanschutz.edu.

　　Diversity and Equity:

　　The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse student body, faculty and administrative staff. The university strives to promote a culture of inclusiveness, respect, communication and understanding. We encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, persons within the LGBTQ+ community and all veterans. The University of Colorado is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.

　　Qualifications:

　　Minimum Qualifications:

　　Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

　　This is an open rank position and could be categorized as Instructor, Senior Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor based on experience and qualifications as indicated below:

　　Instructor:

　　Candidates must hold a MD or DO degree from an accredited University.