Information for Preceptors
Teaching Opportunities
COMMUNITY-BASED TEACHING PROGRAMS
Foundations of Doctoring Curriculum
- Course Description: This curriculum (formerly, the Primary Care Course) is a three-year longitudinal preceptorship, which introduces students to the concepts of primary care and to the use of the focused history and physical exam in the outpatient setting.
- Time Commitment: One afternoon weekly
- Time of Year: For first and second year medical students: September through May; for third-year medical students- September through June
- Level of Trainee: First, second and third year medical students
- Preceptors Needed: Primary care internists (and other primary care physicians) in the Denver metropolitan area
- Additional Information: Preceptors may share students with their physician partners.
Adult Ambulatory Care Clerkship
- Course Description:
- Time Commitment: Four weeks
- Time of Year: Year round
- Level of Trainee: Third year medical students
- Preceptors Needed: Rural and urban primary care internists
- Additional Information: Preceptors may share students with their physician partners
Medicine/Pediatrics Elective
- Course Description: This elective gives fourth year students an opportunity to learn about the combined specialty of medicine and pediatrics.
- Time Commitment: Two to four weeks
- Time of Year: year round
- Level of Trainee: Fourth year medical students
- Preceptors Needed: Med/Peds trained physicians in the Denver metro area and statewide
- Additional Information: Most students taking this elective are exploring the career option of med/peds.
Fourth-Year Primary Care Elective
- Course Description: This elective gives students the opportunity to participate in the care of ambulatory patients in a primary care internal medicine practice.
- Time Commitment: Full time for two to four weeks
- Time of Year: year round
- Level of Trainee: Fourth year medical students
- Preceptors Needed: Primary care internists in the Denver metropolitan area and statewide
- Additional Information: Preceptors may share students with their physician partners. Most students who take this elective have either already decided on a career in internal medicine or are strongly considering such a career.
Preceptorships for Internal Medicine Residents
- Course Description: This rotation gives internal medicine residents an opportunity to improve ambulatory internal medicine practice skills and to understand the practice of internal medicine in a community practice setting.
- Time Commitment: One calendar month
- Time of Year: Year round
- Level of Trainee: Second or third year residents
- Preceptors Needed: Primary care internists in the Denver metropolitan area and rural Colorado
- Additional Information: Preceptors may share residents with their physician partners
Benefits for Clinical Faculty
- Clinical faculty status and the opportunity for promotions
- Eligibility for the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine Community-Based Teaching Certificate
- Access to Denison Library and the availability of medical literature searches at a reduced cost
- Mini-sabbaticals at CU tailored to individual faculty learning needs
- Tuition discount (50%) for CU CME courses
- Yearly Clinical Faculty Dinner
- Extension of privileges to qualified clinical faculty members allowing them to function as attendings at Denver teaching hospital
- Free e-mail and Internet access for preceptors in Foundations of Doctoring course
- Clinical faculty members tell us that they find teaching rewarding, stimulating, and fun!
Appointment and Promotion Process for Clinical Faculty:
Potential clinical faculty must submit a current curriculum vita, a copy of their Colorado medical license, and a completed data sheet (provided by the Department of Medicine). The Division, the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, and the Regents review appointments. The process takes several months. Appointment renewals and promotions are reviewed on an annual basis.
For additional information or questions, please contact:
Eva Aagaard, MD, MSPH
Associate Chair of Education
Department of Medicine
eva.aagaard@ucdenver.edu
303-724-1790