MEDICAL STUDENTS

• Course Description:  This curriculum (formerly the Primary Care Curriculum) is a three-year longitudinal mentoring and 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:  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday afternoon, averaging three visits per month and approximately 18 visits per academic year.
• Time of Year:  For first-year medical students, October through May; for second-year medical students, August through May; for third-year medical students, September through June.
• Level of Trainee:  First-, second- and third-year medical students.
• Preceptors Needed:  General pediatricians, emergency and after-hours care pediatricians in the Denver metropolitan area. Preceptor/mentors must be on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Pediatrics. Third-year students may elect to explore fields other than primary care and recruit a specialty pediatrician.
• Additional Information:  Preceptors may share students with their physician partners.
• Contact:  John Moyer, MD, at (303) 315-1546 or at home (303) 697-4997, John.Moyer@uchsc.edu

• Course Description:  The required pediatrics clerkship is six weeks long. We attempt to provide students with two weeks in a hospital setting as a participating member of inpatient teams managing diagnosis and treatment of hospital inpatients, one week in a newborn nursery and three weeks in an ambulatory clinic in Denver or a rural AHEC rotation.
• Time Commitment:  Three weeks.
• Time of Year:  Up to eight rotations per year, year round.
• Level of Trainee:  Third-year medical students.
• Preceptors Needed:  Rural and urban general pediatricians.
• Additional Information:  Preceptors may share students with their physician partners.
• Contact:  Brenda Lovato at (720) 777-7258, Lovato.Brenda@tchden.org

• Course Description:  This elective gives fourth-year medical students an opportunity to learn about the combined specialty of medicine and pediatrics.
• Time Commitment:  Two weeks.
• Time of Year:  July through May.
• 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.
• Contact: Vicki Crites at (303) 315-6758, Vicki.Crites@UCHSC.edu

PEDIATRIC RESIDENTS

• Course Description:  This is a three-year experience for pediatric residents in which they participate as providers in a community pediatric practice. They spend a half-day per week for three years and three full months over the three years. The objective is for the resident to learn how to provide continuity of care in a practice setting as a general pediatrician. They learn how to provide health maintenance, acute illness care and long-term management of chronic illness by taking care of their own small panel of patients within the practice.
• Time Commitment:  One afternoon per week (perhaps two afternoons per week in the second and third years) and three months over three years.
• Time of Year:  Year round.
• Level of Trainee:  One resident for all three years of their program.
• Preceptors Needed:  General pediatricians in the Denver metropolitan area.
• Additional Information:  Preceptors may share residents with their physician partners.
• Contact: Steve Poole, MD, at (720) 777-6004, Poole.Steven@tchden.org

• Course Description:  This elective gives second- or third-year residents an opportunity to learn about rural practice.
• Time Commitment:  One month.
• Time of Year:  July through May.
• Level of Trainee:  Second- or third-year residents.
• Preceptors Needed:  General pediatricians in a rural practice in Colorado.
• Contact: Steve Poole, MD, at (720) 777-6004, Poole.Steven@tchden.org

CHILD HEALTH ASSOCIATE/ PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENTS

• Course Description:  During this experience students learn clinical skills, including history, physical examination assessment and patient management, under the supervision of community clinical preceptors.
• Time Commitment:  Once a week for fourteen weeks.
• Time of Year:  August through May.
• Level of Trainee:  First- and second-year CHA/PA students.
• Preceptors Needed:  Physicians or physician assistants in Colorado.
• Contact: Sandy Hoops, CHA/PA, at (303) 724-1333, Sandy.Hoops@uchsc.edu; or
  Joyce Nieman, MHS, CHA/PA-C, at (303) 724-1334, Joyce.Nieman@uchsc.edu

• Course Description:  During this experience students learn clinical skills, including history, physical examination assessment and patient management, under the supervision of community clinical preceptors.
• Time Commitment:  Two weeks.
• Time of Year:  June through August.
• Level of Trainee:  Second-year CHA/PA students.
• Preceptors Needed:  Physicians or physician assistants in Colorado.
• Contact: Sandy Hoops, CHA/PA, at (303) 724-1333, Sandy.Hoops@uchsc.edu; or
  Joyce Nieman, MHS, CHA/PA-C, at (303) 724-1334, Joyce.Nieman@uchsc.edu

• Course Description:  All CHA/PA interns are required to do a one-month rural rotation. Rural track interns do a four-month rural block, three months of family medicine and one month of pediatrics. It has been shown that students who do longer rotations in a rural area are more likely to practice there.
• Time Commitment:  One to three months.
• Time of Year:  June through May.
• Level of Trainee:  Third-year CHA/PA students.
• Preceptors Needed:  Physicians, physician assistants or nurse practitioners in rural Colorado.
• Contact: Sandy Hoops, CHA/PA, at (303) 724-1333, Sandy.Hoops@uchsc.edu; or
  Joyce Nieman, MHS, CHA/PA-C, at (303) 724-1334, Joyce.Nieman@uchsc.edu

• Course Description:  This experience gives CHA/PA third-year students an opportunity to improve ambulatory pediatric and pediatric subspecialty skills.
• Time Commitment:  One month.
• Time of Year:  June through May.
• Level of Trainee:  Third-year CHA/PA students.
• Preceptors Needed:  Physicians or physician assistants in Colorado.
• Contact: Sandy Hoops, CHA/PA, at (303) 724-1333, Sandy.Hoops@uchsc.edu; or
  Joyce Nieman, MHS, CHA/PA-C, at (303) 724-1334, Joyce.Nieman@uchsc.edu