Welcome from the Program Director

The University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency program is an innovative educational program for future internists and subspecialists. We pride ourselves on providing trainees with increased freedom to tailor their training to their needs, not to the needs of the program. This trainee-tailored approach is most visible in the ease in which residents are allowed to move between the four areas of emphasis: categorical, primary care, hospitalist and clinical science/research.

Our mission is to help each resident realize their full potential and thus to train future leaders of internal medicine. Our graduates’ select a variety of career paths and are well positioned to impact positive change in areas such as academics, patient care, education and public policy. Our program strives to prepare graduates to excel in their pivotal roles as physicians, researchers, teachers, and community leaders.

We employ a scholarly approach to patient-focused care utilizing a supportive, friendly, and accomplished faculty. The university’s categorical training track has long been respected as one of the nation’s best, routinely placing residents in competitive fellowships throughout the country. The advent of the primary care movement and its incipient training needs were anticipated many years ago. With a formal training track that is more than 20 years old, the primary care residency is one of the nation’s most recognized programs of its type. More recently, the University of Colorado has captured the crest of the hospitalist wave introducing the first and largest dedicated hospitalist residency training program in the United States. Finally, we are improving the formal basic science/clinical research track with an option to complete relevant course material that will prepare residents for the rigors of academic medicine and subspecialty training.

This University-based program is founded on the diverse experiences offered through a five hospital system. By offering clinical experiences at our flagship hospital - the University of Colorado Hospital, our dynamic city/county hospital - Denver Health Medical Center, our large referral VA medical center - the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and our HealthOne private hospitals, the program exposes its trainees to many healthcare delivery systems and more importantly to a diverse group of patients with a wide range of health problems.

Suzanne Brandenburg, MD
Program Director

rev 8/12/08