Didactics
As a fellow, you’ll participate in a number of educational conferences and courses, including:
- Core curriculum weekly*
- Multi-disciplinary tumor board weekly*
- In addition, twice monthly Precision Medicine Molecular Tumor Board
- Educational conference weekly*
- Morbidity and Mortality conference quarterly
- Journal club: one evening every other month*
- Pediatrics Grand Rounds: weekly
- Oncology Grand Rounds: weekly
- Hematology course: one semester during second year*
- Biostatistics course: during second or third year
- Fellows (across all pediatric specialties) core curriculum twice monthly
- Humanism conference quarterly
- Board Review lecture quarterly
- Optional learning/teaching opportunities
- Hematology course
- Biostatistics course
* = teaching opportunities
Mentoring
Effective mentoring is crucial for fellows to master appropriate clinical and scholarly skills. Mentoring also allows fellows to become effective mentors and lifelong learners themselves as they make the transition to independent investigators and practitioners.
As a fellow, you’ll receive mentorship in multiple ways:
- The fellowship program director and program coordinator meet monthly with all the fellows to communicate updates, hear how the fellows are doing and discuss suggestions for program improvement.
- The fellowship program director meets with each fellow at least twice a year individually to discuss multisource evaluations, the fellow’s training progress and career goals.
- The fellowship research director meets individually with fellows during the first year to identify research interests and aims, and to select possible research mentors.
- Once a fellow has made a decision regarding research training, the supervising researcher will become the fellow’s research mentor and will be responsible for the bulk of mentorship in the second and third years of training.
- All fellows have a scholarly oversight committee (similar to a graduate thesis committee) that is responsible for research oversight, and eventually, to certify that the fellow has met appropriate research requirements. The committee meets with the fellow twice per year at a minimum to review progress and provide research and career advice. The committee consists of the fellowship research director, the fellow’s research mentor, and one or two additional faculty members.
- Senior fellows provide mentorship, orientation and guidance to junior fellows throughout their training.