The Faculty Development Fellowship is a 12 month post-residency training based in Boise that trains fellows to become superb teachers of family medicine. Fellows gain experience as both outpatient clinic attendings and as hospital attendings running our inpatient medicine, obstetric and newborn services. Fellows are taught by the family medicine faculty at Full Circle Health (FCH) Boise, one of the longest standing and most prestigious family medicine programs in the United States.
Fellows participate in the FCH Boise Program Evaluation Committee and advise current residents to gain skills in mentorship and dealing with residents in difficulty.
Fellows participate in the clinical teaching certificate program through the Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education through the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Fellows also have the opportunity to pick certain areas of family medicine in which to gain more knowledge, taking advantage of FCH’s many areas of medical specialization. Areas a fellow could choose to gain more knowledge in include rheumatology, dermatology, infectious disease including hepatitis C, TB, and HIV, refugee care, gender affirming care, and obstetrics.
One fellow will be selected each year. Applicants must have completed a 3-year ACGME accredited Family Medicine Residency and be board certified in Family Medicine. At this time, we are not able to sponsor visas for the fellowship. The fellowship starts the last week of July. This varies by academic year. Please submit the following to apply:
- A copy of your CV
- Concise personal statement detailing the following:
- Reasons for pursuing additional training in Faculty Development
- Future career goals
- Letter of support from your Program Director
- Two additional letters of reference, preferably from Family Medicine faculty
Application deadline is October 15th. Interviews will be offered in early November. The fellows will be selected by the end of December.
Email applications to:
Amy Atondo, Fellowship Program Coordinator.
Subject Line: Faculty Development Fellowship Application
Amy Atondo
Fellowship Coordinator
P: (208) 514-2500 x1074
AmyAtondo@fullcircleidaho.org
777 N Raymond Street Boise, ID 83704
- Salary: $77,672.00 (’26-’27 Academic Year)
- Twenty-two (22) days paid vacation per year. (View Family Leave Policy)
- Educational funds in the amount of $1500 for related CME.
- Support for one conference at which the fellow presents.
- Health, Dental, vision, Life Insurance options for fellow and immediate family.
- Disability Insurance for fellow.
- Malpractice Insurance and Workers’ Compensation Insurance.
- Licenses and dues: Idaho board of medicine, DEA, board of pharmacy, AAFP and STFM memberships.
Curriculum:
- Participate in UW’s CLIME Clinical teaching certificate course
- Includes anesthesia (airway), RT, ortho trauma, trauma, POCUS self study
- Participate in the FCH Boise Residency’s Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) and faculty meetings.
- Undertake a project coming out of PEC to implement a needed systematic change
- Work with rotating medical students in clinic
- Oversee residents in their continuity clinic and on our inpatient and obstetrics hospital services, acting as a preceptor / attending.
- Serve as an advisor for 1-2 residents
- Prepare and give evidence based lectures to the residents during their Half Day conference.
- Give an evidence based regional or national presentation on a topic of choice
- Work on a scholarly-based research project
- Spend substantial time on an area of specific clinical interest. Areas to choose from include rheumatology, dermatology, infectious disease (HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis), gender affirming care, refugee care, obstetrics.
- Continue to do family medicine clinics 2-4 half days a week
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (SARMC)
St. Alphonsus in Boise is the region’s only Level II Trauma Center as well as a Level I STEMI and Stroke Center. The St. Alphonsus medical centers in Ontario and Baker City are also level IV trauma centers. “St. Als” will be the site of the majority of rotations including 3 months of community ER, 2 weeks of ICU nights, and additional opportunities such as trauma/neuro emergency call, anesthesia/airway management, and teaching opportunities on the resident FM inpatient service.
While the hub of community EM rotations will be in Boise, additional experiences in our surrounding communities will include:
- Eagle (30 minutes from Boise)
- Garrity (25 minutes from Boise)
- Nampa 12th Ave (40 minutes from Boise)
- Ontario, OR (level IV trauma center, 1 hour from Boise)
- Baker City, Oregon (2 hours from Boise)
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, is part of Saint Alphonsus Health System. With four hospitals and a variety of medical clinics, we serve the full range of the healthcare and wellness needs of the people in southwestern Idaho, eastern Oregon and northern Nevada.
St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC)
For more than 100 years, St. Luke’s Medical Center Boise Campus has been committed to serving the needs of a growing region. Founded in 1902 as a six-bed frontier hospital, St. Luke’s Boise is now Idaho’s largest health care provider, and the flagship hospital of St. Luke’s Health System.
St. Luke’s Boise is known for its centers of excellence in cancer, heart, and women’s and children’s care. Among its many services, it is home to St. Luke’s Heart, St. Luke’s Cancer Institute’s largest clinic, St. Luke’s Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, and St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, the only children’s hospital in Idaho.
Known for its clinical excellence, St. Luke’s Boise has been nationally recognized for quality and patient safety, and is proud to be designated a Magnet hospital, the gold standard for nursing care.
Full Circle Health The clinic experience throughout training will be at one of the 5 clinics of Full Circle Health. Final clinic location will be determined by December 2022 as we are expanding both our Raymond and Emerald St locations.
Full Circle Health Sites
Full Circle Health – Raymond Clinic
The Raymond clinic has been the home location of our residency since 1983. All interns spend their first year as Raymond providers, and 6 upper level residents in each class also stay there for their full 3 years of residency. Raymond is divided into three clinical teams by hallway as part of our PCMH initiative and is our largest clinic. Patient mix is broad and exciting. Procedural support is strong at this clinic and it houses many specialty clinics including sports medicine, rheumatology, and dermatology. All our colonoscopies and EGDs are done here. Although it is an older clinic, it underwent significant remodeling in the last few years. Attending support is a mix of core residency faculty and part-time community preceptors. This clinic offers a vibrant mix of patients and learning options.
Penny Beach, MD (she/her)
Director, Faculty Development Fellowship
Medical Director of Population Health
Dr. Penny Beach grew up in Ohio and Maryland before moving to New England, where she attended Williams College and worked for 7 years as a newspaper reporter. She then attended Dartmouth Medical School and did her family medicine residency at Full Circle Health, graduating in 2001. She spent over eight years working with mostly uninsured patients and Spanish-speaking seasonal farm workers in Nampa, Idaho before joining Full Circle Health in 2010.
Dr. Beach spent six years as the Chief Medical Officer for Full Circle Health before returning in 2022 to being a full-time teaching faculty.
She is married with two children. In her spare time she loves biking and hiking in the Boise foothills, playing the piano, watching Boston Red Sox games, curling, and travelling. Dr. Beach’s curricular interests include hepatology, hepatitis C, rheumatology, practice management and obstetrics.
Alexandra Beattie, MD
Faculty Development Fellow 2025
Dr. Alexandra Beattie grew up in the Green Mountain State with her four younger siblings and attended the University of Vermont for undergraduate and master’s degrees. She then moved out to Jackson, WY, and travelled around India for a bit before heading back to Vermont to work as a medical assistant in a Dermatology office. After working with an amazing dermatology team for a couple years, she decided to hop across the pond(s) to study medicine at the University of Queensland.
Dr. Beattie’s first two years of school were completed in Brisbane, Queensland, a growing city in Eastern Australia, about an hour inland from some glorious beaches and national parks. Her third and fourth years of med school brought her back to the States, to complete clinical rotations in New Orleans, LA.
Dr. Beattie completed her Family Medicine residency training with Full Circle Health – Boise Program in 2024. She is interested in full-spectrum rural/underserved medicine, with a particular interests in public health, social justice, teaching, and mentoring. Outside medicine, she cherishes time with her loved ones and enjoys getting after some skiing, hiking, running, biking, camping, traveling, or painting when she gets the chance!