Rate My Professor Chad Stickrath

Chad Stickrath, MD, FACP, serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine-Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine. He holds key leadership positions including Associate Dean for Medical Education overseeing the post-clerkship phase of the Trek Curriculum, Director of the Teaching Scholars Program in the Academy of Medical Educators, and previous roles such as Assistant Dean for Medical Education in the Alpine-Summit post-clerkship phase and Assistant Dean for the Colorado Springs Branch. His administrative contributions encompass directing Phase IV of the medical curriculum, developing the Plains Pre-clerkship Curriculum, and leading initiatives like the Residents and Fellows as Medical Educators Elective and faculty development for community clinical faculty.

Stickrath's scholarly work centers on medical education, clinical teaching practices, and curriculum innovation. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including 'Attending Rounds in the Current Era: What Is and Is Not Happening' (JAMA Internal Medicine, 2013), 'Residents' Exposure to Educational Experiences in Facilitating Hospital Discharges' (Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2017), 'A BEME realist synthesis review of the effectiveness of teaching strategies used in the clinical setting on the development of clinical skills among health professionals: BEME Guide No. 61' (Medical Teacher, 2020), 'It Takes a Village: Utilizing a Community-based Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship Model at a Regional Medical Campus to Provide the Core Emergency Medicine Clerkship Experience' (AEM Education and Training, 2021), and more recent articles such as 'The One Health Trail: Physician Leaders as Advocates for Human, Animal, and Environmental Health' (Frontiers in Medicine, 2025), 'A Case for Specific Education of Advanced Practice Providers in Allergy & Immunology: Results of a Gap Analysis and Targeted Needs Assessment' (MedEdPublish, 2024), and 'Centering equity in a longitudinal health systems science curriculum' (Medical Teacher, 2024). He has contributed chapters to 'The Regional Medical Campus: A Resource for Faculty, Staff and Learners' (2018) on topics including faculty development, peer-led didactics, and regional campus operations. Stickrath has secured grants for research on characteristics of attending rounds and clinical reasoning in physician assistant students. His work has advanced educational practices through COVID-19 pandemic response courses, self-directed learning frameworks, and equity-focused health systems science curricula, demonstrating significant impact on medical training at CU Anschutz and beyond. As a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, he is recognized for excellence in internal medicine.