Welcome to the University of Colorado’s Department of Family Medicine.

Residents at the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency rotate at three of the region's premier teaching hospitals, the University of Colorado Hospital, Denver Health Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Colorado . Through the residency's association with the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, residents are part of a dynamic, innovative community that is at the forefront of helping to define the future of Family Medicine. Residents have tremendous opportunities for developing leadership and pursuing scholarly activities.

The residency offers two tracks:

The tracks utilize different continuity clinic sites and care for unique patient populations. Apart from these differences, the tracks use the same educational sites, share the same educational didactics, and have 22 months of rotations in common. 

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​Em​bracing the Future

The University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency is committed to defining and creating the future of Family Medicine. We seek to be a leader in demonstrating what it means to be a caring, effective Family Medicine physician in the 21st century. We do this while maintaining a supportive, caring learning environment, with a focus on each individual resident's learning needs.

For the past five years, the residency program has been a site for the national Preparing Personal Physicians for Practice (P4) project. We have developed a new Family Medicine residency curriculum which builds on a strong base of high quality clinical teaching.

Our curriculum emphasizes teaching residents effective skills in:

• Health Behavior Change Counseling
  
• Patient-Centered Medical Home Skills and Leadership
  
• Community Integration and Leadership
  

We have also introduced a novel strategy for preparing residents with core skills prior to their hospital-based intern rotations though the use of three Family Medicine intensive teaching months in the PGY 1 year (Chautauquas). Through these approaches, residents receive more personal teaching focused on the skills that are needed to care for patients in the rotations that follow them.