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Endocrinology Fellowship Program - Fellow Responsibilities Second Year

Learn about the responsibilities of our second-year fellows at Tufts Medical Center in downtown Boston, MA.
Outpatient clinics - core
  • Evaluation of new patients and continuing care of returning patients in the following outpatient subspecialty clinics:
    • Bone
    • Neuroendocrine
    • Thyroid
    • Thyroid FNA (a few times a year as needed)
    • Diabetes and lipid
  • One of these clinics was designated as a "continuity" clinic and is done weekly during the second year.
  • The other clinics are every week or every other week, depending on the fellow's interest or educational need.
     
Inpatient consultation service
  • 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.
  • Eight weeks total, in four 2-week blocks for each second-year fellow:
    • July and August (so first-year fellows have time to adjust and prepare for the ABIM internal medicine examination)
    • One 2-week block in November/December and January/February
  • The fellow covering the inpatient endocrinology consultation service also covers the inpatient Glycemic Consultation Service (GCS) during weekends and holidays.
     
Self-study, didactics and endocrine conferences
  • Daily independent and in-depth study from endocrine reference textbooks, selected articles (available in the shared drive and campus library), the endocrine literature on topics relevant to patients seen or discussed in conference.
  • Presentation of short clinical cases at the weekly Clinical Case Conference.
  • Second-year fellows are expected to present patients with more complicated conditions.
  • Attendance and active participation at monthly conferences (e.g., pathology, radiology).
  • Two in-depth presentations at the Endocrine Seminar Series per year.
  • Organization of the weekly clinical case conference and multidisciplinary conferences, e.g., pathology and radiology.
     
Research and/or quality improvement
  • Meaningful participation in an endocrine-related research project and/or quality improvement project.
  • Present abstract(s) at national meetings and prepare and submit publication(s) to a peer-reviewed journal(s).
  • Fellows attend 1 national conference a year, typically the Endocrine Society or American Diabetes Association meetings.
     
Teaching
  • Teaching residents and students when they rotate in endocrinology. 
  • Participate in formal teaching of residents through didactic conferences.
  • Participate in teaching second-year medical students during the endocrine pathophysiology course at Tufts University School of Medicine as part of team-based learning.
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