Curriculum

The fellowship experience includes several components: clinical experiences, didactics, journal clubs, and a scholarly activity in quality improvement and/or clinical research.

The clinical experiences are mainly outpatient, at the University of Colorado Hospital, Barbara Davis Center, Anschutz Health and Wellness Center and Rocky Mountain Regional Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center. Fellows see patients in longitudinal diabetes-focused continuity clinics, and in specialty clinics in diabetes in pregnancy, renal, cardiovascular/lipid, weight management, ophthalmology, and wound care. There are opportunities to tailor the curriculum to specific interests of the fellow, with other electives such as bariatric/metabolic surgery and neurology, and working in the indigent care clinic or at the safety net hospital for Denver.

Fellows are taught by core clinical teaching faculty.

Didactics include formal teaching as well as informal bedside/clinic teaching by attendings, monthly diabetes clinical conference, and other weekly or monthly conferences

Fellows are expected to present a case discussion at the Endocrinology Division Grand Rounds and in Journal Club, and organize a portion of the monthly diabetes conference

Fellows participate in a scholarly activity throughout the year which is a diabetes-related quality improvement or clinical research project, and present findings toward the end of the fellowship year.

Attendance at the Practical Ways to Achieve Targets in Diabetes Care (ATDC) conference in July (start of fellowship year), the American College of Diabetology annual conference (fall of fellowship year) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Scientific Sessions in June (end of fellowship year) is expected.

Fellows meet regularly with the program director and associate director, and receive periodic evaluations by faculty and staff.

The fellowship program undergoes continuous improvement based on feedback from fellows, faculty and staff.