Clinical Fellowship in Hospital Medicine
The Clinical Fellowship in Hospital Medicine is a 1-year fellowship that prepares family medicine or interested internal medicine graduates to pursue hospital medicine careers in both the community and academic setting. The program's emphasis is primarily clinical with optional scholarly development activities in quality improvement, medical education and research available to interested candidates.
Curriculum
Clinical Duties
Fellows will train on hospital medicine teams for the first six months. This training will include rotations on hospital medicine inpatient ward teams, short stay observation unit and the admitting medical officer team. Electives are offered in perioperative medicine (both inpatient and outpatient), advanced heart failure, utilization review and bedside procedures. Additional elective requests may be accommodated in medicine subspecialties such as critical care, cardiology, infectious disease and nephrology depending upon availability. Fellows will serve as hospital medicine attendings on the daytime admitting team or in the nocturnist role for 13 weeks during the subsequent six months of their fellowship.
Fellows will train on hospital medicine teams for the first six months. This training will include rotations on hospital medicine inpatient ward teams, short stay observation unit and the admitting medical officer team. Electives are offered in perioperative medicine (both inpatient and outpatient), advanced heart failure, utilization review and bedside procedures. Additional elective requests may be accommodated in medicine subspecialties such as critical care, cardiology, infectious disease and nephrology depending upon availability. Fellows will serve as hospital medicine attendings on the daytime admitting team or in the nocturnist role for 13 weeks during the subsequent six months of their fellowship.
Research Training
Structured training in quality improvement and patient safety is available for interested fellows, and so is the option of pursuing mentored projects in quality improvement, medical education or research.
Structured training in quality improvement and patient safety is available for interested fellows, and so is the option of pursuing mentored projects in quality improvement, medical education or research.
Opportunities to teach medical students in the small group setting is also available.
Resources
Application Qualifications/How to Apply
Fellow Benefits and Support
Contact Us
Stephanie Peterson
Clinical Program Coordinator
smpeterson@mcw.edu | (414) 955-0392
smpeterson@mcw.edu | (414) 955-0392