Endocrinology Fellowship Program - Fellow Responsibilities First Year

• Evaluation of new and continuing care of returning patients in the following subspecialty clinics:
  • Bone
  • Neuroendocrine
  • Thyroid
  • Thyroid FNA (a few times a year as needed)
  • Diabetes and Lipid

•    In general, there are no elective rotations during the first year

• Coverage of the Inpatient Endocrinology Consultation Service and Diabetes Management Service (on weekends) in coordination with the resident(s) and student(s) rotating through the Service.
• 16 weeks total (in eight 2-week blocks) for each first-year fellow:
  • In general, first-year fellows are not on the consultation service in July and August to adjust and prepare for the ABIM internal medicine examination.
• The fellow covering the inpatient endocrinology consultation service also covers the inpatient Glycemic Consultation Service (GCS) during weekends and holidays.

• Daily, independent and in-depth study from endocrine reference textbooks, selected articles (available in the shared drive and campus library) and the endocrine literature on topics relevant to patients seen or discussed in conference.
• Presentation of short clinical cases at the weekly Clinical Case Conference.
• First-year fellows are expected to present patients with common endocrine conditions.
• Attendance and active participation at monthly interdisciplinary conferences (e.g., pathology, radiology).
• One in-depth presentation at the Endocrine Seminar Series per year.

• Meaningful participation in a quality improvement project and/or endocrine-related research project and/or
• Present abstract(s) at national meetings
• Fellows attend 1 national conference a year, typically the Endocrine Society or American Diabetes Association meetings.

• Teaching of residents and students when rotating in Endocrinology.