Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Curriculum
The 3 years of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship will provide you with rotations through the different fields that create the Hematology/Oncology practice with direct exposure to multiple patients and scenarios that will be part of a long-life career in the field.
In addition, fellows:
- Benefit from the many conferences held at the hospital, including, Journal Club, Hematology/Oncology Residency classes which they will be expected to coordinate, and weekly faculty lectures.
- Are expected to participate with hospital staff and residents from other programs in hospital-wide conferences such as Tumor Boards and a variety of specialty conferences.
Fellow master schedule
Rotation descriptions
Out and Inpatient Hematology/Oncology exposure to the care of patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Continuity Clinic
Starting shortly after fellowship begins and continuing throughout all three years, fellows have a full day per week of continuity clinic. Fellows take ownership of a diverse panel of patients across all tumor types and benign hematology building the confidence and autonomy to prepare you for your future career.
Core Rotations
Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Breast, Thoracic, Head and Neck, Gynecological, Sarcoma, Melanoma, Neuro Oncology
Each year fellows have the chance to rotate with each of our subspecialist Oncologists at the St. Lukes campus focusing on the subset of cancers each attending physician has built their clinic around. These rotations mirror the everyday work of our attending physicians including subspecialty hospital coverage and high-volume clinic experiences. Additionally, fellows often will have a half day per week to dedicate to research/scholarship while on core rotations.
Inpatient Consults: Fellows take ownership of the inpatient consult service, triaging new cancer diagnoses and seeing all new benign hematology consults. This service is supported by our wonderful APP team for solid tumors and our dedicated benign hematology APP who covers all preoperative anemia consults.
Malignant Hematology: The Malignant Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant rotation includes inpatient experiences with auto and allo stem cell transplants, CART and inpatient chemotherapy for the full spectrum malignant hematology. The rotation also includes outpatient clinic experiences with each of our attendings and the opportunity to perform bone marrow biopsies.
Elective Rotations
Surgical Oncology: Our Surgical Oncology rotation is primarily with our Surgical Oncology fellows focusing on GI malignancies but can be a build your own adventure to include experiences Oncologic Breast Surgery, Urology, ENT Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology.
Radiation Oncology: Our fellows spend at least one block collaborating with our Radiation Oncology colleagues to gain a comprehensive understanding of multimodality cancer care including experiences in brachytherapy, and external beam radiation across all tumor types.
Palliative Care: Fellows rotating with Palliative Care will focus on mastering advanced symptom management for patients with malignant conditions and non-malignant blood disorders and continue to develop effective communication skills including family conferences and end of life discussions.
Genetics: Our genetics experience includes time spent with two groups; The Hereditary Cancer Clinic focusing on inherited cancer syndromes and cancer risk reduction. The Precision Medicine program with a focus on genomic testing and interpretation of next generation sequencing done throughout the system including hosting the Precision Medicine Tumor Board while on service.
Pathology: Fellows delve into the diagnostic world of malignancy working alongside our excellent Pathology and subspecialist Hematopathologists in the diagnosis of benign and malignant hematology and solid tumors. An additional week can be spent with our transfusion medicine faculty as well.
Sinai: Sinai is the home base for your future full day continuity clinic. An early rotation here ensures you are comfortable and well prepared to take full ownership of your patient panel early in fellowship. During this rotation you meet all the staff who will make your personal clinic the favorite part of your week under the direction of both the Program Director and Assistant Program Director. Our clinic has in person support from APPs, Nurse Navigators, Social work, Registered Dietician, Clinic Pharmacist. This is primarily an outpatient rotation with inpatient coverage largely completed by rotating Internal Medicine Residents.
Summit: Summit is our western community clinic offering additional diversity in clinic experience to prepare you for own future clinic. This rotation is frequently chosen for additional elective rotations. This clinic attending staff includes former Assistant Program Director and a former graduate of the fellowship program additional elective rotations. This clinic attending staff includes former Assistant Program Director and a former graduate of the fellowship program.
Additional Elective Experiences: Fellows have the option to create additional experiences in their area of interest both within our local system and more broadly in Advocate Health.
Tumor Board Schedule
Fellows can attend and present at more than 10 tumor boards for multidisciplinary discussion of patients with involvement from Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical subspecialties, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pathology, Genetics, Nurse Navigators and Research. Tumor boards include: Sarcoma, Melanoma, GU, Breast, Endocrine, Primary Liver, Metastatic Liver, Neuro Oncology, Gyn, GI, ENT, Hereditary Cancer, Thoracic, Hematology, Precision Medicine.
Lecture Series
Our fellowship program collaborates with the Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship and Oncology Pharmacy Residency to deliver two lectures each week with contributions from fellows, attendings, pharmacy residents, and visiting speakers. Additionally our fellows run a monthly hematology and oncology series for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Aroura.
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