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Hematology Fellowship

Curriculum

First Year Fellows

  • Inpatient Consults 5-6 months
  • Hemepath/Molecular Pathology 4 weeks
  • Radiation oncology 2 weeks
  • Supportive Care 2 weeks
  • Bone Marrow Transplant 8 weeks
  • Transfusion Medicine 4 weeks
  • Phase 1 Research 4 weeks

Second Year Fellows

  • Inpatient Consults 3 months
  • Multidisciplinary Clinics 2-3 months
  • Personalized Medicine 1 month
  • Immune Cellular Therapy 0-1 month
  • Research 4-6 months

Fellows begin their own continuity clinic half day weekly at either VA or TGH.

Fellowship tracks will help guide curriculum requirements during second year of fellowship.

Track Clinical Educator Clinical Investigator Laboratory Investigator BMT/Immunotherapy
Clinical duties
(Consults/Inpatient)
9 months 6 months 3 months 6 months
Track Duties
(Research Time)
3 months 6 months 9 months 6 months
Continuity Clinics 2 half days
1 half day
MDC/Specialty
2 half days 2 half days 2 half days

Third Year Fellows

  • Inpatient consults 0-1 month
  • Immune Cellular Therapy 0-1 month
  • Multidisciplinary Clinics/Research 10-11 months

Fellowship tracks will help guide curriculum requirements during third year of fellowship

Track Clinical Educator Clinical Investigator Laboratory Investigator BMT/Immunotherapy
Clinical duties
(Consults/Inpatient)
9 months 3 months 3 months 3 months
Track Duties
(Research Time)
3 months 9 months 9 months 9 months
Continuity Clinics 2 half days
1 half day
MDC/Specialty
2 half days 2 half days 2 half days

Additional Information

Throughout all three years you will continue with 2 half day clinics per week regardless of rotation.

Core Clinics

GU, GI, Breast, Cutaneous, Thoracic, Lymphoma, Myeloma, Myeloid
*All fellows must rotate through each of these clinics 

Didactics

Tumor Board: Weekly disease specific conferences and throughout sites TGH, MCC, VA

Monday Afternoon Didactics: All fellows excused from clinical duty

ASCO and ASH ITE required for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year fellows 

Research Expectations

Minimum: 1st author peer reviewed manuscript and abstract accepted to at least 1 national conference