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About the Fellowship

Rheumatology Fellowship

Rheumatology Fellowship Program Goals

  • To help trainees achieve clinical and procedural competence in Rheumatology
  • To encourage and develop trainee adaptability and personal initiative so that they are capable of working in a variety of settings
  • To help trainees become life-long learners.

Our Goals, Further Amplified

  • We define a clinically competent rheumatologist as one having

  • The ability to work in a variety of settings is essential for a clinically complete rheumatologist. The fellows will be able to demonstrate clinical competence in the following settings:

  • All fellows will be capable of demonstrating their ability to be life-long learners by their

Objectives

At the completion of the rheumatology fellowship training, the fellow should have mastered the following objectives as they pertain to each of the goals of the curriculum:

Clinical competence in a variety of clinical settings

  1. Demonstrate mastery of the clinical evaluation and management of diseases seen in the practice of rheumatology, including the uncommon and complicated diseases.
  2. Demonstrate proficiency as a consultant and/or leader of a multi-disciplinary health care team.
  3. Possess communication skills that will allow the fellow to perform as the health care team leader with peers and professionals.
  4. Demonstrate capability to teach their skills to trainees at junior levels.
  5. Qualities of professionalism and humanistic skills will be demonstrated at a level which serves as a model for trainees at a junior level.
  6. Capability to design of at least one research protocol and present it at a critical review forum. They should also produce sufficient research work to enable them to submit their work for peer reviewed presentation, scientific meetings, manuscript submissions, or grant applications for research funding.

Life-long learning

  1. Fellows will demonstrate proficiency at attending and participating in conferences, and coordinating conferences, conference topics, and conference schedules. These include, but are not limited to, journal club, grand rounds, fellows conference, pediatric rheumatology conference.
  2. Fellows will develop skills in systems-based learning and practice-based learning. Systems-based learning includes skills such as: accessing and mobilizing outside resources, using systematic approaches to reducing errors and improving patient care, developing systems improvement, advocating quality care and assessing and coordinating health care. Practice-based learning includes skills such as: self-evaluation, incorporating feedback into improvement activities, effectively using technology to manage information on patient care and self-improvement, assimilating information related to patient’s healthcare problems and applying knowledge of study design and statistics to practice.
  3. Fellows will demonstrate mastery of teaching skills in their interaction with trainees in junior levels of training. This may include supervised teaching interactions with trainees such as junior-level fellows, residents, and medical students.

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