Fellowship Curriculum
Our Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes fellowship program combines clinical work, didactics, and research throughout each stage of the full-time, three-year program. Fellows complete most of their clinical work during the first year, allowing them to devote the final two years to research and the culmination of their fellowship - an original research project.
Timeline for first-year fellows:
• July 1-14: Fellowship begins with the first-year fellows shadowing the second-year fellows on inpatient service to ease transition
• July 15-28: Solo inpatient service begins. The outpatient fellow shadows the second-year fellow for one week each.
• September/October: Two weeks off-service and not on call to study for pediatric boards
• February: IN-SITE pediatric endocrine training exam
Year One
• First-year fellows split their time between outpatient clinics and inpatient service (primary patients and consults). The first-year fellows will alternate between outpatient and inpatient service every 2-3 weeks. Fellows also work extensively with the fourth-year medical students and residents in the emergency department, discussing disease pathophysiology and treatment rationale for patients.
• The inpatient fellow attends two Fellow Continuity Clinics - one diabetes, one endocrine. The inpatient fellow manages the inpatient endocrine service and consults.
• The outpatient fellow attends the two Fellow Continuity Clinics along with three rotating clinics. The outpatient fellow responds to emergency pages to answer questions from physicians, school health clinics, and parents.
• All fellows (first, second, and third year fellows) share equal division of evening and weekend calls and shifts in one-week blocks.
• To broaden their exposure to a variety of patients, first-year fellows rotate between several clinics, including all of the endocrine clinics of the faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
These clinics include:
- Metabolic bone disease clinic
- Adult endocrine clinic
- Dyslipidemia clinic
- Williams syndrome clinic
Depending on the fellow's interest, additional opportunities, such as a clinic for patients with disorders of sexual development or reproductive endocrinology, may be available.
Years Two and Three
In the second and third years, fellows devote themselves to honing their research techniques through lectures, case discussions, and weekly didactics (both pediatric and adult) as well as presenting their original work at national and international conferences. Organizational and systems skills like manuscript preparation and medical journal review techniques are also incorporated into the leadership program.
Clinical responsibilities continue to include:
• Second-year fellows: Two Fellow Continuity Clinics each week (diabetes and endocrine).
• Second and Third-Year Fellows: Night and weekend calls, split evenly among all fellows.
Previous fellows have gone on to receive grants and teaching awards for their research in diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and vitamin D, and we’re confident our blend of teaching, didactics, and mixed conferences will spur fellows to achieve research results that matter.