Children's Hospital Colorado

Learning Opportunities

As part of our mission to improve the health of children, Children's Hospital Colorado offers a broad spectrum of training, education and certification programs aimed at developing, strengthening and sustaining knowledge and expertise in the pediatric medial field.

Here, you'll work alongside our pediatric experts and talented medical professionals as we pioneer new ways of curing childhood diseases, advance the ways patients receive coordinated care and innovate multidisciplinary pediatric medicine.

Training and learning opportunities at Children's Colorado

We offer a wide variety of advanced training and learning opportunities for future healthcare professionals and today's clinicians. Our programs are affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.

Medical education

The best pediatric care starts with the top medical education. From internships to fellowships, we offer the pediatric medical experiences you need.

Observations and preceptorships

Bring critical skills and insights back to your team with a hands-on clinical learning experience or observation.

Life support training program

Healthcare professionals can give patients their best chance by refining their skills. We offer certification courses and programs in various aspects of life support.

Children's Hospital simulation program

Our hospital promotes better patient care by using innovative technologies and interactive techniques to teach essential cognitive and behavioral skills in a simulated clinical environment. This is done through instruction, team dynamics and hands-on participation.

Simulation program

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

The Volunteer Clinical Faculty at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus offers information on how to become a faculty member, find teaching opportunities and explore the range of benefits and activities available to the volunteer clinical faculty. Become a volunteer faculty member to help shape the future of pediatric medicine through education and collaboration.

Pediatric grand rounds

To help clinicians, medical students and healthcare professionals stay current on the evolving areas of pediatric practice, our hospital hosts pediatric grand rounds. These presentations occur every Friday, September through June, at 12:30 p.m., and they are free and open to the public.

Join us on the second floor of our hospital's Conference Center to experience this educational series where clinicians:

  • Aid in future diagnoses of pediatric diseases by describing their etiology, pathogenesis and clinical presentation
  • Educate attendees about current research and advances in clinical management
  • Provide real-world context by identifying applications of basic research to clinical practice
  • Reinforce key medical practices by reviewing principles and strategies related to illness prevention and health promotion in pediatric care

Download the grand rounds calendar (.pdf)

Healthcare professionals listen to a lecture in an auditorium.