MEDICAL STUDENTS

• Course Description: This curriculum is a three-year longitudinal mentoring and preceptorship program which introduces students to basic communication and clinical skills in the outpatient setting.
• Time Commitment: Two to three afternoons per month, approximately 15 visits per academic year
• Time of Year:   For first-year medical students, October through May; for second-year medical students, August through February; 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 members of 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:   Britney Anderson, MD, at (303) 724-6421, Britney.Anderson@ucdenver.edu or Foundations.Doctoring@ucdenver.edu

• Course Description:   The required pediatrics clerkship is six weeks long. We attempt to provide students with exposure to a variety of experiences including inpatient, outpatient and newborn nursery.
• Time Commitment:   Two- to six-week blocks
• 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; inpatient and outpatient settings
• Additional Information:  Preceptors may share students with their physician partners
• Contact:   Brenda Cordova at (720) 777-6867, Cordova.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 metropolitan area and statewide
• Additional Information:  Most students taking this elective are exploring the career option of Med/Peds
• Contact:  Vicki Melton at (303)724-1790, Vicki.Melton@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. Residents 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)
• 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 first- and second-year students learn and expand on 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 expand on their 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 third-year students are required to do a one-month rural rotation. Rural track third-year students 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. During this experience students expand on their clinical skills, including history, physical examination assessment and patient management, under the supervision of community clinical preceptors.
• Time Commitment:  One to three months
• Time of Year:  June through April
• 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 the opportunity to develop competencies in ambulatory pediatric and pediatric subspecialty skills under the supervision of community clinical preceptors.
• Time Commitment:  One month
• Time of Year:  June through April
• 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