Endocrinology Fellowship Curriculum
Fellows will have opportunities to customize their schedules to a certain extent. The following represents the major areas of training throughout the fellowship:
Goals
The overall goals for years 1 and 2 are competency based, and we strive to provide trainees with the proper education to:
- Provide patient care that is compassionate and effective for the treatment of endocrinologic disease and other associated health problems, as well as promotes health.
- Develop a solid knowledge base in the basic and clinical science of endocrinology and to apply it to research and patient care.
- Cultivate a commitment to professionalism, with regard to all professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to diverse populations of patients to whom they will provide clinical care and/or research.
- Pursue a lifelong commitment to practice-based learning and improvement so that they may continue to improve their patient care and research practices and hone their skills to provide state-of-the-art education to medical students, physicians, and other health care professionals.
- Build interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective interactions with their patients, families, colleagues, and other health care professionals.
- Utilize resources to effectively call on system resources to provide optimal care for their patients with respect to the larger health care system (i.e., system-based practice).
- Function in multiple capacities and/or settings, including:
- primary provider of care of endocrinologic disease patients
- consultant to other physicians
- leader of a multidisciplinary health care team
- teacher
- researcher in private practice, multispecialty, or academic settings
- Work with a dedicated attending as well as an on-site pathology technologist to develop skills needed to perform ultrasound-guided fine needle aspirations (UGFNA).
Years at a glance
PGY-4:
| Inpatient Consultative Service | 6 months |
| Ambulatory Endocrinology/Continuity Clinic | 4 months |
| Endocrinology in Pregnancy | Half-day per week during outpatient rotation |
| Thyroid Biopsy Clinic | Half-day per week during outpatient rotation |
| Transition of Care Clinic | 2 half-days per week during outpatient rotation |
| Administrative/Study Time | Half-day to 1 day per week |
| Research Time | 2 weeks |
PGY-5:
| Inpatient Consultative Service | 3 months |
| Ambulatory Endocrinology/Continuity Clinic | 5 months |
| Pediatric Endocrinology | Half-day per week for 6 months |
| Electives | Half-day per week |
| Administrative/Study Time | 1 to 1.5 days per week |
| Research Time | 4 weeks |
| Transgender Medicine | Half-day per week for 6 months |
| Weight Management | Half-day per week for 6 months |
Endocrinology conferences
Thursday conference (weekly)
- Morbidity and mortality
- Faculty- and fellow-directed core curriculum topics
- Systematic review of guidelines
- Journal club
- Case presentations
- Research conference: quality improvement and research updates
- Board review using the Endocrine Self-Assessment Program
Interdisciplinary conferences
- Quarterly endocrinology/nephrology combined journal club and case conferences
- Quarterly interdisciplinary tumor board
- Morbidity and mortality with the internal medicine residents
Medical grand rounds (monthly)