- 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
- At the end of the first-year, one of these clinics is designated as "continuity" clinic and is done weekly.
- Other clinics are every week or every other week, depending on the fellow's interest or educational need.
Outpatient Clinics - Core
Outpatient Clinics - Electives
- Evaluation of new and continuing care of returning patients in the following subspecialty clinics:
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Gender health
- Weight and wellness
- Advanced lipid
- Advanced thyroid cancer
- These electives may take place at other academic institutions in the Boston metropolitan area.
- Each block is 4 to 8 weeks.
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 second-year fellow:
- July and August (8 weeks total), so first year fellows have time to adjust and prepare for the ABIM internal medicine examination.
- November (first 2 weeks)
- December (first 2 weeks)
- January or February (4 weeks total)
- The fellow who is 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. Second-year fellows are expected to present patients with more complicated conditions and go into more depth in their presentations.
- Attendance and active participation at monthly interdisciplinary conferences (pathology, radiology).
- Two in-depth presentations at Endocrine Seminar Series per year.
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) for peer-reviewed journal(s).
- Fellows attend 1 national conference a year, typically Endo Society or American Diabetes Association.
Teaching
- Organization of multidisciplinary conferences, e.g., pathology, radiology. Teaching of residents and students when rotating in Endocrinology.
- Participate in formal teaching of residents through noon ambulatory conferences, didactics or case-based sessions.
- Participate in teaching the second-year medical students during the Endocrine Course at Tufts University School of Medicine as part of Team Based Learning.