Get To Know Us Better
Inside The University Of Colorado Family Medicine Residency
Welcome!
We are honored and excited that you are taking the time to interview with us!
We designed this webpage for applicants invited to interview with us so that you can get to know us better. We wish we could meet you in person because we know how important it is to get a good “feel” for a residency. Instead of meeting us in person and touring our facilities, we invite you to review the content on this website. You will find virtual tours of our clinics, hospitals, and community as well as an overview of our curriculum and links to documents or webpages with more information. The people in these videos include our faculty, current residents, and alumni, so that you can get a feel for who we are.
If you have any remaining questions, please don't hesitate to contact us! We are excited to have you as a colleague and want to support you in your journey to become a great family physician.
Contact: Chloe Finke, Program Coordinator: chloe.finke@cuanschutz.edu
"Our mission: The University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency trains family medicine residents to be innovators, educators, and leaders who deliver high quality, evidence-based, broad spectrum, family-centered care strengthened by relationship over time to the diverse communities of Colorado and beyond."
Scholarly Activity
Our residents and faculty collaborate on scholarly activity. All residents complete a mentored publication during their PGY2 year, though many work with faculty on additional publications. Below, you can review some articles recently published by current and former residents during residency.
- Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (aafp.org) Case Report by Shawnecca Burke, class of 2022, and Morgan Hungenberg, faculty.
- Are antipsychotics effective adjunctive Tx for patients with moderate-to-severe depression? - PubMed (nih.gov)Response to clinical inquiry by Lindsay Koerperich, PGY3, with Heather Bleacher and Naomi Malam, both faculty.
- Case report Letter to the Editor of American Family Physician in April 2021 about a case of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after COVID-19 Janssen Vaccination by Allison Costello, PGY3, Jessica Devitt, faculty, and an Internal Medicine colleague.
- Response to a clinical inquiry about light therapy to treat depression in older adults by Josh Gilens, PGY3 with Molly Hoss and Corey Lyon, faculty.
- Case report by William Calawerts, PGY2 with Cleveland Piggott and Morteza Khodaee, both faculty.
- Descriptive epidemiology study about clavicle fractures in skiing by Lauren Oberle, class of 2021, two of our Sports medicine faculty (Jack Spittler and Morteza Khodaee), and an epidemiologist colleague.
- Case report by Jeremy Moon, PGY3, Susie Piggott, recent graduate, and Morteza Khodaee, faculty.
- Article related to Covid-19 published in May 2020 by Lauren Oberle, class of 2021 and Jessica Devitt, faculty with a colleague.
- Case report by Eric Kim and Lexi Targan, class of 2021 with recent grad Stephanie Eldred and Dan White, faculty.
- Response to a clinical inquiry by Sydney Davis, class of 2021 with Corey Lyon and Cleveland Piggott, both faculty.
- Case report by Drew Ashby, faculty, Franklin Niblock, class of 2021, and two recent graduates.
Advanced Primary Care
A.F. Williams Family Medicine Center, the clinic where residents in our UH track practice, is nationally known as a leader in advanced primary care models. It was included as a “high-functioning primary care residency clinic” in this 2016 publication from Thomas Bodenheimer’s team, available from the AAMC. A.F. Williams’ Primary Care Redesign model was also featured in this 2018 article in the New England Journal of Medicine about redesigning primary care to mitigate physician burnout.
You can check out some recent publications from our UH faculty related to their work at A.F. Williams:
- Practice Transformation Under the University of Colorado’s Primary Care Redesign Model by leaders in our department of family medicine (who also precept residents) and Aimee English, A.F. Williams’ medical director and core faculty member.
- The Feasibility of Screening for Social Determinants of Health: Seven Lessons Learned by Heather Bleacher who leads our PHACE curriculum with additional faculty and a recent graduate.