The GIM Clinician–Educator Fellowship at Lowry Internal Medicine is a one-year, ambulatory-based scholarly position designed for internal medicine physicians pursuing careers in academic ambulatory medicine. The fellowship integrates longitudinal patient care in a high-functioning community clinic with robust teaching, scholarship, and leadership opportunities. Fellows gain skills in outpatient medicine, medical education, population health innovation, and clinic administration. The program serves as an early-career launching pad for physicians seeking clinician–educator and leadership roles in academic or community medicine.

Program Mission

To create an early-career launching pad for first-year faculty in academic ambulatory medicine.

Program Overview

• Duration: 1 year
• Setting: Community-based academic internal medicine clinic
• Focus: Outpatient clinical care, medical education, scholarship, and leadership
• Structure: Ambulatory clinic experience, resident and student teaching, mentored scholarship, and clinic leadership

Clinical Training

Fellows maintain their own primary care panel while providing care to resident patients as needed. Clinical work is longitudinal and closely integrated with teaching, allowing fellows to develop refined outpatient clinical skills while modeling high-quality primary care for learners.

Teaching, Scholarship, and Leadership

Fellows play a central role in resident and student education through clinic precepting, curriculum development, and facilitating outpatient educational conferences. Each fellow completes a mentored scholarly project and develops a teaching portfolio. Leadership training is provided through an apprentice model that includes meaningful participation in clinic operations, resident clinic leadership, quality improvement initiatives, and mentorship of trainees.

Contact & Applications

For additional information or application inquiries, please contact:

Program Director: Tyra Fainstad, MD
Email: [email protected]

Location: Lowry Internal Medicine

The Women’s Health General Internal Medicine Fellowship is a one-year, ambulatory-based program designed to train internal medicine graduates to provide broad-spectrum women’s health primary care across the lifespan. The fellowship emphasizes the transition to independent primary care practice, with dedicated training in women’s health clinical care, including competency in relevant women’s health outpatient procedures. This fellowship also integrates dedicated time for mentored experiences in teaching, scholarship, and leadership. Fellows are fully integrated into a women’s health primary care clinic. The program’s goal is to prepare capable women’s health internists who wish to be leaders in women’s health in their future careers.

Program Mission

• Develop comprehensive clinical and procedural expertise in women’s health primary care to support future independent practice.
• Support an intentional early-career trajectory for first-year faculty in academic ambulatory medicine.

Program Overview

• Duration: 1 year
• Clinical focus: Broad-spectrum women’s health across the lifespan
• Highlights: Dedicated ambulatory clinic experience in an integrated women’s health primary care clinic, high-impact subspecialty clinic rotations to develop comprehensive women’s healthcare knowledge, dedicated mentorship in teaching, scholarship, and leadership

Clinical Training

Fellows spend over half of the week in direct patient care, building and maintaining their own primary care panel within the University of Colorado Women’s Integrated Services in Health (WISH) Clinic, a broad-spectrum women’s health–primary care clinic. Additional clinical training includes dedicated experiences in women’s health procedures such as long-acting reversible contraception, endometrial and vulvar biopsies, and colposcopy (optional). Fellows also rotate through subspecialty clinics relevant to women’s health, including urogynecology, endocrinology, breast health, and others depending on fellow interest.

Teaching, Scholarship, and Leadership

Additional training in teaching, scholarship, and leadership is a core feature of this fellowship. Fellows develop teaching skills through precepting medical students and delivering didactic educational sessions. Additionally, each fellow is expected to complete a mentored scholarly project and receives protected time for scholarship. Leadership training occurs through an apprenticeship model with clinic leadership, participation in quality improvement and clinic operations, and opportunities for broader institutional leadership engagement.

Contact & Applications

For additional information or application inquiries, please contact:

Program Director: Nikki Zarling, MD
Coordinator: Gena Weir
Email: [email protected]

Location: Women's Integrated Services in Health Clinic, Anschutz Medical Campus

A full-time fellowship position as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) is available in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The NP or PA Fellow will work in collaboration with the Department of Medicine/Internal Medicine faculty preceptors and will provide clinical care to patients in the Lowry Internal Medicine Primary Care Practice. The NP or PA Fellow will gain experience with caring for new patients, continuity of patients, hospital/ED follow-up, acute care, and annual/wellness exams in the highly complex internal medicine population and will be introduced to outpatient procedures. The Fellow will receive clinical supervision, mentorship, and didactic opportunities with the goals of increasing independence, clinical confidence, and mastery. The Fellow will gain experience as a member of the multidisciplinary Primary Care Team. This fellowship is ideal for an early practitioner who is seeking to gain extensive knowledge in internal medicine under supervision of fellow APPs and MD/DOs.

The fellowship position is for 12 months. Employment options within the system may be available upon program completion.

Supervision Received

This position reports to the clinic Medical Director.

Supervision Exercised
This position does not supervise any FTE.

Minimum Qualifications

Non-Tenured Track 

Instructor:

• Master’s Degree for Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant
• Active Colorado license by employment start date
• For Nurse Practitioner candidates: Provisional prescriptive authority in the state of Colorado
• Must be board certified one month prior to employment start date

Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• 0-2 years of professional experience as an Advanced Practice Provider
• Experience in a primary care setting
• Experience with Epic EHR

Competencies: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities 
• Skilled in diplomacy, tact, and working with sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to interact with all team members professionally and courteously.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Demonstrates a proactive attitude towards self-directed learning and professional development

Contact & Applications

For additional information or application inquiries, please contact:

Program Director: TBD
Email: [email protected]