Fellow Responsibilities First Year
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What to expect in your first year of endocrinology fellowship

During your first year as an endocrinology fellow at Tufts Medical Center, you’ll build a strong foundation in clinical care. You’ll take on increasing responsibility as a consultant while being supported by experienced faculty. From day one, you’ll be part of a team that values learning, curiosity and thoughtful care.
Outpatient Clinics - Core
  • 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
Outpatient Clinics - Electives

•    In general, there are no elective rotations during the first year
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.
  • 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.
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) 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.
Research and/or quality improvement
  • 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
  • Teaching of residents and students when rotating in Endocrinology.
Contact
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Morgan Wilson
Fellowship Coordinator