Fellowships

Pediatric Endocrinology

Our Pediatric Endocrine Fellowship Program spans three years of training and prepares our fellows for careers as leaders in academic medicine and also clinical practice. The program includes a year of clinical training followed by two years of basic science or clinical research. Our program is structured to meet ACGME requirements for fellowship training.

Pediatric Endocrinology Unit and Diabetes Center
Meet the Team

First Year

The first year of fellowship is a year of clinical training and includes outpatient and inpatient responsibilities. In addition, fellows receive training in the six core competencies and are required to demonstrate proficiency in these competencies.

• Clinical:
• Outpatient responsibilities: First year fellows are encouraged to attend at least four outpatient clinics each week, including their continuity clinic. As a tertiary care center, the Pediatric Endocrine Clinic receives a large number of referrals from all over the country and also from outside the country.
• Inpatient responsibilities: The two first year fellows are alternately on-call for the Pediatric Endocrine service. Fellows are responsible for all inpatient consults and inpatient endocrine admissions, and are precepted by on-service Pediatric Endocrine faculty. Second and third year fellows share weekend calls.
• Consults: In addition to inpatient consults, the fellow on-call (under faculty supervision) is responsible for telephonic consults from primary care physicians and from our satellite centers.
• Conferences: The fellow on-call is responsible for the weekly morning report, which is an interactive session with all fellows, faculty and rotating residents and students. In addition, all fellows are responsible for:
• Weekly clinical case conferences and journal club attended by the Pediatric Endocrine team, rotating residents and students
• Detailed presentations at our weekly board review attended by fellows, the Program Director and other faculty.
• M&M conferences
• Practice improvement projects: All fellows are expected to develop a practice improvement project, which is reviewed with the Program Director and presented annually to the Pediatric Endocrine team.
• Fellow portfolio: The fellow portfolio is maintained on an ongoing basis by all fellows, and includes case logs, records of clinical case conferences, journal club, abstract and manuscript submissions, practice improvement projects, and records documenting training in the core competencies.
• Fellows are given opportunities to write chapters and reviews with faculty and are required to complete a clinical research project in the first year of fellowship.

Second and Third Years

• Clinical responsibilities: Second and third year fellows are responsible for a weekly continuity clinic and also share weekend inpatient call with the first year fellows
• Research
• Requirements: The second and third years of fellowship are primarily years of research training, which may include basic science or clinical research. Fellows work with the Program Director and Division Chief to identify an appropriate mentor in their first year of fellowship. The research training experience includes developing, implementing and completing a hypothesis driven research project, and publishing one or more peer-reviewed first authored manuscripts (at least one manuscript is mandatory for completion of fellowship training).
• Opportunities: Fellows have the opportunity to work in research labs of mentors in Massachusetts General Hospital including the Adult Endocrine Unit and the Weight Center, and in other institutions affiliated to Harvard Medical School such as the Joslin Diabetes Center. Research mentors identify opportunities for fellows in training in grant writing, biostatistics, IRB submission, maintenance of protocol approval, and scientific writing.
• Scholarship Oversight Committees meet semi-annually for each fellow to review ongoing research
• Conferences: As described for first year fellows. In addition, second and third year fellows are required to present at meetings of the mentors’ labs, and annually to the Pediatric Endocrine team.
• Practice improvement project and fellow portfolio: as described for first year fellows

Outcomes of Fellows Completing Training at MassGeneral Hospital for Children

Teaching activities

• Pediatric Endocrine summer school is taught by faculty and fellows to incoming first year fellows over the summer months
• Didactic: The Pediatric Endocrine Unit offers weekly mandatory didactic conferences presented by local and other faculty. In addition, combined Adult and Pediatric Endocrine Grand Rounds are held once a week. Fellows also have the opportunity to attend didactic conferences and journal club hosted by the Adult Endocrine Units including the Reproductive Endocrine Unit, Diabetes/Thyroid/Neuroendocrine Units, and Calcium Unit
• Clinical case conferences: Weekly pediatric endocrine clinical case conferences are mandatory and are presented by fellows and faculty. In addition, fellows have the opportunity to attend clinical case conferences in the Adult Endocrine Units.
• Clinical: In addition to clinical training in pediatric endocrinology, first year fellows attend a mandatory month of Genetics training, and are encouraged to attend sessions in Thyroid Sonography and Biopsy.
• Board review: The pediatric endocrine curriculum is reviewed over a one-year period at board review sessions held weekly
• Statistical courses: Multiple statistical courses (Introductory and Advanced) are offered by the Clinical Research Training program
• Grant Writing and Scientific Writing courses: Ongoing courses are offered by Massachusetts General Hospital and the Clinical Research Program
• Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials: Six-week course offered annually
• Ethical Conduct of Research

How to Apply

Please call Nancy Radford at 617-726-5790 for a copy of the application form
Personal Statement: 1-2 pages
Curriculum Vitae
Letters of recommendation (two or more)