"Instructor - Quality and Safety Scholar"

Instructor - Quality and Safety Scholar

Job Summary:

The Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus seeks hospitalists at the instructor level to join our vibrant hospitalist group practicing and teaching Hospital Medicine in 1-year intensive faculty development program. Participants of this program will work part-time in hospital medicine faculty, attending on direct care, resident and advanced practice provider teaching services. The remainder of time is dedicated to the advancement of skills in quality improvement, patient safety, and health system change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop expertise in quality improvement methodology.
• Develop expertise in patient safety.
• Develop as an educator by taking an active teaching role in QI and patient safety curriculums in the Department of Medicine and the CU School of Medicine.
• Build specific skills pertinent to hospital medicine practice, consult medicine, oncology, addiction medicine, clinical operations, and leadership.

Other Optional Responsibilities:

• Apply advanced clinical decision-making and bedside ultrasonography skills to patient care under guided mentorship.
• Develop an area of interest and produce a scholarship in that area by the end of the academic year (curriculum development for students or faculty is a form of scholarship).
• Build advanced clinical decision-making skills, founded in biostatistics and evidence-based medicine.
• Enhance critical appraisal skills and develop expertise in nuanced interpretation of variety of study designs such as observational study, randomized clinical trial, adaptive randomizations, Bayesian analysis of randomized trials, conventional meta-analysis, meta-regression, and network meta-analysis

Work Location: Onsite - this role is expected to work onsite and is in Aurora, Colorado

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be an MD/DO
• Completion of 3-year ACGME-accredited internal medicine residency program (or other programs that involve training in internal medicine, such as Medicine/Pediatrics joint residency) or family medicine with sufficient inpatient clinical time (determined on a per applicant basis)

How to Apply:

For full consideration, please submit the following document(s):

1. A letter of interest describing relevant job experiences as they relate to listed job qualifications and interest in the position
2. Curriculum vitae / Resume
3. Five professional references including name, address, phone number (mobile number if appropriate), and email address

Applications are accepted electronically ONLY at www.cu.edu/cu-careers.

Questions should be directed to: Lauren Sutherland Lauren.Sutherland@cuanschutz.edu or tyler.anstett@cuanschutz.edu

Anticipated Pay Range:

HIRING RANGE: $80,000 - $120,083