
Altru Family Medicine Obstetrics Fellowship offers advanced and intensive
training to those interested in practicing obstetrical care. Potential
applicants are required to have graduated from an accredited three-year
family medicine residency and must be a board-certified family physician.
Graduates of the fellowship complete approximately 100 c-sections and 50 vaginal deliveries. Exposure to other areas is dependent on the fellow’s desires for training and the needs of the community they will be serving. Fellows will also receive adequate training and privileges during their fellowship for D&C, vasectomy, colposcopy with or without LEEP, postpartum tubal ligation, and more.
During the one-year fellowship, teaching opportunities are available for fellows to act as a peer mentor/educator for residents and medical students.
OB fellows are expected to take OB call throughout the year and maintain a continuity clinic of at least two half days every week.
Applications are accepted from May 1 to September 1. Two positions are open every year, with preference given to Altru Family Medicine Residency graduates. Application requirements include:
Applications can be mailed to the residency or emailed to Kelsey Huttunen, Program Supervisor, at khuttunen@altru.org. Altru FMR reserves the right to determine the number of interviews conducted.
Program Contacts
Dr. Heidi Philpot
OB Fellowship Program Director
hphilpot@altru.org
Kelsey Huttunen
Program Supervisor
khuttunen@altru.org
701.780.6810
For any additional program information, please review our OB Fellowship Handbook.
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