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Department of Pediatrics
Clinical Faculty
Welcome to the Department of Pediatrics Clinical Faculty Website.
 Overview
Benefits of Clinical Faculty Status
Clinical Faculty Affairs Committee
Further Information
Overview
There are 437 clinical faculty members in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, consisting of physicians, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists and other allied health professionals throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
They are mostly volunteer faculty who teach residents, medical students, physician assistants and nursing students in the hospital, in their private offices and in outpatient settings.
Clinical faculty members have appointments at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. They provide an invaluable service to the Department of Pediatrics and are promoted based on their teaching, community service and contributions to the Department, the community and to medicine and child advocacy in general.
Benefits of Clinical Faculty Status
- Clinical Faculty status and the opportunity for promotions
- Access to the Health Sciences Library (University of Colorado Denver) and the availability of medical literature searches at a reduced cost
- Mini-sabbaticals tailored to individual faculty learning needs
- Clinical Faculty Recognition Dinner
- Free parking at TCH
- Free e-mail and Internet access for preceptors in the Foundations of Doctoring course
- Clinical Faculty members tell us that they find teaching rewarding, stimulating and fun!
Clinical Faculty Affairs Committee
The Clinical Faculty Affairs Committee is made up of fifteen members of the clinical faculty, representing all the areas in which they practice and precept trainees. The Committee plays a vital role in the life of the Department of Pediatrics. While its official role is to set standards for clinical faculty and advise the Chair of the Department on appointments and promotions, in practice, it does much more. As an ad hoc committee to The Children’s Hospital Medical Board, the Committee in the past helped reorganize the inpatient medical service at The Children’s Hospital and advised the hospital on ways to enhance inpatient, outpatient and phone consultation procedures.
The Clinical Faculty Affairs Committee also functions as an advisory group to the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics in order to facilitate interactions between the private pediatric community and the Department. Over the past ten years, the Committee has redefined the criteria for clinical faculty appointments and promotions and has established a database of all clinical faculty.
The Committee has been involved in a number of other functions, including advising the Department of Pediatrics on its mini-sabbatical program; participating in Department of Pediatrics’ retreats; recommending topics for continuing medical education opportunities for community physicians; identifying training sites for medical students, residents and physician assistants; and helping to evaluate and advise on the primary care curriculum and resident continuity of care experience.
The Clinical Faculty Affairs Committee keeps its members up-to-date on the latest developments in pediatric practice and graduate medical education.
Further Information
Visit the following Clinical Faculty Web pages for further information:
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