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Clinical Training
The first year of fellowship is designed to develop clinical skills through direct inpatient and outpatient care. These skills serve as a foundation for all three years of fellowship and for a career in pediatric hematology/oncology. This year is largely clinical with six to seven months of service on the inpatient Pediatric Oncology Service, Transplantation Service, and Outpatient Oncology Clinics. Required additional rotations cover areas including sickle cell anemia, blood banking, hematopathology, coagulation, radiation oncology, and cytogenetics. First year fellows have one month of elective.
»Sample Schedule of First Year Rotations (PDF)
Continuity Clinic
Throughout all years of the program, fellows have weekly continuity clinics where they follow and care for their own patients in the clinic. An attending hematologist/oncologist and faculty members with disease-specific clinical expertise supervise all of these clinical activities. Fellows assume primary responsibility (with gradually increasing independence) for care of their own patients -- learning the fundamentals of outpatient management of newly diagnosed and continuing patients with hematologic and oncologic disorders.
Roles and Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities of the clinical fellow are to:
- Be involved in and eventually direct the day-to-day care of patients
- Be a major part of the decision-making team
- To diagnose and treat patients with hematology/oncology conditions
- Perform diagnostic procedures
- Interpret test results
- Develop and maintain long-term professional relationships with the children and families they follow
- Provide short-term and long-term follow-up care
- Learn about cost-effective medical care and managed care pathways
- Interact with referring physicians
- Interact with other health care providers
- Manage hospice patients both in the hospital and at home
- Treat cancer survivors
