Working Groups

Members of this monthly journal club meet at a participant’s home to review and discuss articles related to health policy. The group’s goal is to provide a venue for interested residents, faculty, and colleagues or friends outside of our program to learn about and discuss health policy topics. 

Past journal clubs have covered bipartisanship in health policy, graduate medical education funding, integrating public health and primary care, health care spending in the United States, measurement in primary care, and school health policy.

The Social Justice Work Group (SJWG) is a collaborative of residents and faculty who meet monthly to foster diversity, inclusion, and equity in the residency and department. 

In its first year, the group developed a roadmap for the residency to improve diversity of our program’s residents and faculty and better work to address social injustices. 

The group is working on developing curriculum, using research and Quality Improvement (QI), and working to better address the health needs of our patients and community. 

is an interdisciplinary group of physicians, nurses, medical assistants, behavioral health specialists, social work, care management, and patient navigators at A.F. Williams Family Medicine Clinic who are searching for ways to provide medical care that is aware of and responsive to social, cultural, economic and other everyday forces that promote or undermine the health of our patients. 

Their mission is “Cultivating the power of connections for the health of our patients and their neighbors.” This group has developed collaborative partnerships between several community organizations and launched systematic screening for social determinants of health and related evaluation. 

During these quarterly dinners, residents, faculty, and clinic staff come together to explore cultures and health traditions represented in the Denver population and particularly at the Lowry clinic. 

Speakers include patient navigators and other employees at Denver Health from countries represented in the patient population; speakers share about their community’s culture in general and in relation to healthcare. Past talks have focused on the Karen community, Somali community, and Iraqi refugee community. 

In addition to these optional dinner talks, global health and refugee health topics are incorporated into the regular didactic schedule and residents, faculty, and staff attendees regularly participate in the annual North American Refugee Health Conference.

This group is a partnership between faculty, residents, and students involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education at the University of Colorado. 

The group was developed out of a desire to better advocate for Family Medicine as a specialty choice for medical students on the University of Colorado campus and beyond. 

This group meets monthly to discuss sustainable and innovative ways to advocate for our specialty. Topics include recruitment of medical students, curriculum structure, and communication about family medicine.