Clinical Content Director- Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Content Director- Obstetrics and Gynecology-40015Faculty

Description

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: Office of Medical Education

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

Working Title: Clinical Content Director- Obstetrics and Gynecology

Position #:00848628– Requisition #: 40015

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, 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 housestaff 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.

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 OBGYN 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 OBGYN liaisons and LIC directors if students are identified that need additional support to achieve competency in their clerkship.

·Collaborate with CCDs and the Office of Assessment, Evaluation and Outcomes to write grading criteria for the clerkship.

·Develop process for standard setting among OBGYN LIC liaisons and LIC Sites participating in grading

·Chair the annual grading committee meetings for OBGYN.

·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 OBGYN 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 monthly CCD meetings and twice monthly CPCC meetings.

·Organize and lead monthly meetings with OBGYN LIC 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 Director of the Clinical Pillar.

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

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